core: Calendar trigger not working

The problem

Calendar trigger not working

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2023.1.1

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

Never tried before

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

Automation

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/automation/trigger#calendar-trigger

Diagnostics information

No response

Example YAML snippet

alias: Test calendar event
description: ""
trigger:
  - platform: calendar
    event: start
    entity_id: calendar.xxx
  - platform: calendar
    event: end
    entity_id: calendar.xxx
condition:
  - condition: template
    value_template: |-
      {{ 'Test' in
      trigger.calendar_event. summary }}
action:
  - service: notify.mobile_app_MyMobile
    data:
      message: Test
      title: Info
mode: queued
max: 10

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

No response

Additional information

Hello,

I’am using a calendar from the Google Cclendar integration. I correctly get my calendar events from Google, so it seems not be the problem. I am trying to activate a binary sensor when I have a calendar event with some string in the summary.

Even if delete my condition and I try to match every event present into the calendar, the automation is not launched. Even if I let the trigger with the options that are set by the UI :

platform: calendar
event: start
offset: "0:0:0"
entity_id: calendar.xxx

I never get the automation to start. Which is very annoying. Do I miss something or is it a bug ?

Regards

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created a year ago
Comments: 22 (9 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

lets see whether it does

My housekeeper automation triggered perfectly the last 8 or so weeks, until it didnt this week. I didnt change anything… so one test may not tell you much, it appears to be intermittent.

R5fan on Mar 2, 2023

@bobvandevijver FWIW, I see the same with the recycleapp integration. I think thats a bug we should report to them, as other all day events do show correctly in HA.

However, I dont think thats whats causing the automation trigger to fail, as I see it on events that have correct start and end times.

R5fan on Mar 2, 2023

@DanDixon You might be onto something here. I’m having issues with calendar triggers as well, which originate from the Twente Milieu integration (#86602). Those event are being updated quite often, and I’ve not yet managed to get any calendar trigger working on them.

bobvandevijver on Feb 5, 2023