Get Calendar Events
home_assistant.get_calendar_events
ActionBusiness appsconnection required
Calls the Home Assistant API with the connection's credentials.
Read the events of one calendar entity between two timestamps.
Connection
- Required
- Yes — the node will not save without one
- Auth type
- Bearer token
- Providers
- Home Assistant
- Secret shape
- the long-lived access token, or {"access_token": "…"}
- Config it needs
- base_url
- Resolved by
- config.connection_id, else node.connection_id
Configuration
3 fields, 3 required. A dotted path is a nested object and name[] an array of objects — the editor renders the same tree.
| Field | Type | Required | Default | Constraints | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
entity_id The calendar to read, as 'calendar.<object_id>'. | string | Yes | — | — | calendar.family |
start Start of the window, ISO-8601. Home Assistant requires it. | string | Yes | — | iso8601 format | 2026-09-09T00:00:00+00:00 |
end End of the window, ISO-8601. Home Assistant requires it. | string | Yes | — | iso8601 format | 2026-09-16T00:00:00+00:00 |
Example configuration
Every value below is the contract’s own example or default — nothing invented.
{
"end": "2026-09-16T00:00:00+00:00",
"entity_id": "calendar.family",
"start": "2026-09-09T00:00:00+00:00"
}Output
One shape.
result
| Field | Type | Example |
|---|---|---|
items The objects Home Assistant returned, in its own order. | array | — |
count How many objects are in `items`. | number | — |
entity_id The calendar that was read. | string | — |
{
"count": 0,
"entity_id": "",
"items": []
}Related Home Assistant nodes
See Get Calendar Events run in a workflow.
In a technical demo we add the Home Assistant connection, drop the node on the canvas and let Workflow Health pre-flight it before the first real run.