Google Calendar Switch wont talk to a Trigger

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Hi All This is my first post and its looking like im missing something obvious. I am using UI5 and am trying to get the Google Calendar Switch (GCS) app to turn on a radio at a certain time.

1.Have created a scene called Radio_On with a trigger called Radio_On When I run the scene the radio goes on.

  1. In google calendar at 8am-9am I created a event called Radio_On

3 In GCS app I enter the calendar link then set and in keyword I put Radio_On then press Set. When I press check it picks up that between 8am and 9am there is a Radio_On event. Click Save

4 At 7.59am there is a little green man. At 8am he turns red and starts running. But no tunes come from the Radio??

Do I need to enter anything in the GCS app advance tab? Have tried a number of things but no luck

Thanks for reading and looking forward to any advise

TC

P.s am in Australia if that makes any difference??(but have told google and IU5 where I am)

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Hi Crooke,

Step 1, maybe? I don’t use this plugin but AFAIK the trigger has to have the condition “an armed sensor is tripped”, selecting the Google Calendar plugin as the “sensor”. Did you do that?

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[quote=“futzle, post:2, topic:173482”]Hi Crooke,

Step 1, maybe? I don’t use this plugin but AFAIK the trigger has to have the condition “an armed sensor is tripped”, selecting the Google Calendar plugin as the “sensor”. Did you do that?[/quote]

Thanks Futzle, If I understand you correctly. I went back into automation and edited the scene by clicking on Arm in the google calender plugin. (So in the devices tab have both radio clicked on and arm clicked in Radio_On in edit scene)

When I run the scene the radio goes on.

But still when the man turns red and starts running nothing happens with the radio

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No, that’s wrong, undo that.

While editing the TRIGGER for the scene, you need to tell the Vera UI what makes the scene run unattended. In your case it’s that the Google Calendar switch trips (red man). Just naming the trigger the same as your event isn’t enough.

I have got the Vera UI in front of me so I can’t give a click-by-click description, but you need to edit the trigger, select the Google Calendar device, then pick from a list of events that the device is able to produce, one of which is “an armed sensor is tripped”. Find that string and you’re set.

(Advisory: the Vera UI JavaScript is buggy. You may do better to delete the trigger and create it again.)

Edit: screenshot attached for future finders of this thread.

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Holey Moley ;D I think it worked. I did look at that before, but because that trigger didnt give me the option to turn on or off a device I didnt try it.

Have brought this stuff to go in a holiday rental house, to give it a lived in look when no one is home. When Im next there will double check that its doing what the computer says it is

Havent played around with the sensor yet. Hope I can call in on your experience again if I hit a brick wall?

Thank you futzle, I owe you a beer.