Location-based automations using Google Calendar integration

[edgy tiger]

Hello, is it possible to have an automation triggered by a Google Calendar event, but only if the location attribute on the event matches a certain keyword?

I have set up the Gcal integration and it is pulling data into Home Assistant.

[woven salmon]

you could probably write a condition to check the events location

[edgy tiger]

I'm not familiar with using YAML, what would that look like?

[woven salmon]

something like
{{ 'the pub' in trigger.calendar_event.location }}

so you trigger on an event then add a template condition with that which would filter the events which have a location contains the pub in their string

i am not sure if thats entirily correct. i dont have a setup to test it. but i think it should work based on documentation

[echo turret]

I’ve done something like this in Nodered using the calendar node and the google directions node. It reads each event, looks for “$drive” in the description, pulls the location from the event and passes it to the google maps api, which then returns a time to destination. It will then notify me to leave the house 15 minutes ahead of time.

[halcyon plank]

Very cool. Would you mind sharing the flow?