diehllane
(Brian Diehl)
February 13, 2017, 1:56am
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You can use the GCal smart app and add your team’s calendar over to Google.Then you can have a switch turned on when the game starts and auto turn off at the end of the designated game time.
I do that for baseball, football (pro and college), hockey, and UFC. Works well.
UPDATE: @infofiend has taken up this project as his own. You can find his support thread [UPDATED 3/27/17] GCal Search
I happen to use my ST setup as my alarm clock. It’s so much harder to hit snooze if your bedroom light is on! But because of random days off or late start days I’d have to keep modifying the routine. Thus GCal-Search is born. I created a Google Calendar and can stick events on it that my routines can deal with via virtual switches and/or contact sensors.
If the polling/scheduling continues to improve this should end up working out well. Thus far I’ve had it run all weekend looking at my calendars and it hasn’t failed yet. crosses fingers
The app works by creating sub-apps that have a virtual device with the contact and switch capabilities. This will allow you to select …