Google Calendars
The Google integration allows you to connect to your Google Calendars to Home Assistant. The integration adds calendar entities that are shown on the Calendar dashboard, and can be used for automations based on any event, or limited to specific matching criteria.
Prerequisites
You need to configure developer credentials to allow Home Assistant to access your Google Account.
This section explains how to generate a Client ID and Client Secret on Google Developers Console.
- First go to the Google Developers Console
- The wizard will ask you to choose a project to manage your application. Select a project and click continue.
- Verify that your calendar API was enabled and click ‘Go to credentials’
- When it gets to the Page titled Add credentials to your project just click cancel.
- Navigate to APIs & Services (left sidebar) > Credentials
- Click on the field on the right of the screen, ‘CONFIGURE CONSENT SCREEN’, select “External” and create.
- Set the ‘Application Name’ (the name of the application asking for consent) to anything you want. We suggest “Home-Assistant”.
- You then need to select a
Support email
. To do this, simply click the drop down box and select your email address. - You finally need to complete the section:
Developer contact information
. To do this, simply enter your email address (same as above is fine). - Scroll to the bottom and click
save
. (You don’t have to fill out anything else) - You will then be automatically taken to the OAuth consent screen, you do not need to add any scopes here so click
SAVE AND CONTINUE
to move to theTest users
page. You will need to add the Gmail address you will be using with this integration as a test user before you will be allowed to use the API. Once you have added your email address underTest users
clickSAVE AND CONTINUE
which will take to the ‘Summary’ page (you do not need to do anything here). - Click Credentials in the menu on the left hand side of the screen, then click
+ Create credentials
(at the top of the screen), then selectOAuth client ID
. - Set the Application type to
TV and Limited Input
and give this credential set a name (like “Home Assistant Credentials”) then click ‘Create’. - You will then be presented with a pop-up saying ‘OAuth client created’ showing
Your Client ID
andYour Client Secret
. Make a note of these (for example, copy and paste them into a text editor) as you will need to put these in yourconfiguration.yaml
file shortly. Once you have noted these strings, clickOK
. If you need to find these credentials again at any point then simply navigate toAPIs & Services
>Credentials
and you will seeHome Assistant Credentials
(or whatever you named them in the previous step) underOAuth 2.0 Clident IDs
. To view both theClient ID
andClient secret
, click on the pencil icon, this will take you to the settings page for these credentials and the information will be on the right hand side of the page. - We need to double check that the “Google Calendar API” has been automatically enabled. To do this, select
Library
from the menu, then search for “Google Calendar API”. If it is enabled you will seeAPI Enabled
with a green tick next to it. If it is not enabled, then enable it.
Configuration
To integrate Google Calendar in Home Assistant,
add the following section to your configuration.yaml
file:
# Example configuration.yaml entry
google:
client_id: YOUR_CLIENT_ID
client_secret: YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET
Configuration Variables
Will automatically generate a binary sensor when a new calendar is detected. The system scans for new calendars only on startup.
Then make sure to restart Home Assistant under Server Controls.
After that, you need to add Google Calendars Integration.
- Browse to your Home Assistant instance.
- In the sidebar click on Settings.
- From the configuration menu select: Devices & Services.
- In the bottom right, click on the Add Integration button.
- From the list, search and select “Google Calendars” and follow the instructions.
The integration setup will next give you instructions on how to authorize Home Assistant to access your account and Calendars.
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The first step shows a link and a code.
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Click on the link https://www.google.com/device to open a Google website which should open a new window where you can enter the code.
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Home Assistant will wait for a short time while you complete the authorization steps, checking in the background for the authorization to be completed.
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Continue through the steps of selecting the account you used when creating the credentials in the Google Developer Console.
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NOTE: You may get a message telling you that the app has not been verified and you will need to acknowledge that in order to proceed.
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Depending on your
configuration.yaml
, you will either be granting Home Assistant read only or read write access to all the Google Calendars available to your linked account. -
You should then see a Success! message from Google.
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You may close the window, and return back to Home Assistant where you should see a Success! message from Home Assistant.
Troubleshooting
If the setup process fails and you see an error message such as Authentication code expired, please try again you may want to try the flow again. You may also check the logs for additional error messages that may indicate a misconfiguration such as an invalid client id or secret.
Calendar Configuration
The integration will discover new calendars and write them into a configuration file google_calendars.yaml
in your configuration directory. The configuration file can let you control which calendars appear, or set up more elaborate event matching criteria.
A basic entry for a single calendar looks like:
- cal_id: "*****@group.calendar.google.com"
entities:
- device_id: test_everything
name: Give me everything
track: true
From this, we will get a binary sensor calendar.test_everything
triggered by any event on the calendar and will show the next 10 events on the ‘Calendar’ dashboard.
A bit more elaborate configuration:
- cal_id: "*****@group.calendar.google.com"
entities:
- device_id: test_unimportant
name: UnImportant Stuff
track: true
search: "#UnImportant"
- device_id: test_important
name: Important Stuff
track: true
search: "#Important"
offset: "!!"
From this we will end up with the binary sensors calendar.test_unimportant
and calendar.test_important
which will toggle themselves on/off based on events on the same calendar that match the search value set for each.
calendar.test_unimportant
will toggle for events whose title contain ‘#UnImportant’
calendar.test_important
will toggle for events whose title contain ‘#Important’. By using the offset variable an event title containing “#Important !!-10” will toggle the sensor 10 minutes before the event starts.
If you use a #
sign for search
then wrap the whole search term in quotes.
Otherwise everything following the hash sign would be considered a YAML comment.
Configuration Variables
The Google generated unique id for this calendar.
DO NOT CHANGE THE DEFAULT VALUE
Yes, you can have multiple sensors for a calendar!
The name that all your automations/scripts will use to reference this device.
A set of characters that precede a number in the event title for designating a pre-trigger state change on the sensor. This should be in the format of HH:MM or MM.
Calendar attributes
-
offset_reached: If set in the event title and parsed out will be
on
/off
once the offset in the title in minutes is reached. So the titleVery important meeting #Important !!-10
would trigger this attribute to beon
10 minutes before the event starts. -
all_day:
true
/false
if this is an all day event. Will befalse
if there is no event found. -
message: The event title with the
offset
value extracted. So in the above example for offset_reached the message would be set toVery important meeting #Important
- description: The event description.
- location: The event Location.
- start_time: Start time of event.
- end_time: End time of event.
Service google.add_event
You can use the service google.add_event
to create a new calendar event in a calendar. Calendar id’s can be found in the file google_calendars.yaml
. All dates and times are in your local time, the integration gets your time zone from your configuration.yaml
file.
This will only be available if you have given Home Assistant read-write
access (see calendar_access
).
Service data attribute | Optional | Description | Example |
---|---|---|---|
calendar_id |
no | The id of the calendar you want. | *****@group.calendar.google.com |
summary |
no | Acts as the title of the event. | Bowling |
description |
yes | The description of the event. | Birthday bowling |
start_date_time |
yes | The date and time the event should start. | 2019-03-10 20:00:00 |
end_date_time |
yes | The date and time the event should end. | 2019-03-10 23:00:00 |
start_date |
yes | The date the whole day event should start. | 2019-03-10 |
end_date |
yes | The date the whole day event should end. | 2019-03-11 |
in |
yes | Days or weeks that you want to create the event in. | “days”: 2 |
You either use start_date_time
and end_date_time
, or start_date
and end_date
, or in
.
Using calendar in automations
A calendar can be used as an external scheduler for special events or reoccurring events instead of hardcoding them in automations. The calendar entry must have a duration greater than 1 minute. Events that are 0 minutes long will not trigger the automation.
Trigger as soon as an event starts:
trigger:
platform: state
entity_id: calendar.calendar_name
to: "on"
By using specific text in the event title, you can set conditions to initiate particular automation flows on designated events while other events will be ignored.
For example, the actions following this condition will only be executed for events named ‘vacation’:
condition:
- condition: state
entity_id: calendar.calendar_name
state: vacation
attribute: message