I always wanted to have my calendar spoken in the morning but:
[*] iCal processor does not handle dates in EU format
[*] Plugin seems to have problem in El Capitan and will be outdated when the Calendar Store will be removed as (it is now in El Capitan deprecated and access to calendars/reminders shall be done with EventKit, so a bridge Python-Objective-C/Cocoa is needed (PyObjC); I will investigate for sure this solution but it takes time that at the moment I do not have).
==> I have therefore found another solution combining iCalBuddy which is very flexible and can parse calendar and a Python script (wrote by me).
The script is written on my needs and on my "calendar format", but feel free to modify and adapt it to you use cases
It also handles soccer matches (of my favourite team only)
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# 25.02 - First Version
# 26.02 - Added logging and moved completely to Python (no shell script)
# 27.02 - Separate handling 'calendars' and 'birthdays' + Indigo integration
# 27.02 - Events in time order
# 27.02 - Handling of football matches
# 29.02 - check length of events
indigo.server.log("Calendar - Execution Start")
import re, subprocess
p = subprocess.Popen("/usr/local/bin/icalBuddy -nc -eed -b '## ' -ps ' / ' eventsToday", shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
out, err = p.communicate()
raw_events = out.replace("\n", " ").lstrip().rstrip().replace(" ", " ")
string_events = raw_events[3:]
## to modify according the calendar settings
sBirthday = "Birthday"
## to modify with your Indigo variable ID
idIndigoVar = 1047659443
## to modify according the system language (Eng: My Birthday - Ita: Mio Compleanno)
sMyBirthday = "My Birthday"
## your name
sMyName = "Marco"
sMilan = "AC Milan"
## !!! DO NOT EDIT !!! ##
delimiter = "##"
events = string_events.split(delimiter)
events = string_events.split(delimiter)
if len(string_events) > 3:
eventsCount = len(events)
else:
eventsCount = 0
seventsCount = ""
birthdaysCount = 0
sbirthdaysCount = ""
sIndigoVar = ""
indigo.variable.updateValue(idIndigoVar, value="")
for event in events:
formatted_event = event.lstrip().rstrip()
if sBirthday in formatted_event:
birthdaysCount += 1
eventsCount -= 1
if birthdaysCount == 0:
sbirthdaysCount += "No birthdays today. "
sIndigoVar += sbirthdaysCount
indigo.server.log("Calendar - No birthdays")
elif birthdaysCount == 1:
sbirthdaysCount += "Today there is one birthday. "
sIndigoVar += sbirthdaysCount
indigo.server.log("Calendar - One birthday")
else:
sbirthdaysCount += "Today there are " + str(birthdaysCount) + " birthdays"
sIndigoVar += sbirthdaysCount
indigo.server.log("Calendar - >= 2 birthdays")
for event in events:
if sBirthday in event:
if sMyBirthday in event.lstrip().rstrip():
bd = "Today is your birthday, happy birthday " + sMyName
sIndigoVar += bd + ". "
indigo.server.log("Calendar - My birthday")
else:
parts = event.split("'s")
age = re.sub("[^0-9]", "", parts[1][-4:])
bd = parts[0] + " will be " + age + " years old"
indigo.server.log("Calendar - Other birthday")
sIndigoVar += bd + ". "
if eventsCount == 1:
seventsCount += "You have one appointment today. "
indigo.server.log("Calendar - Only one appointment")
sIndigoVar += seventsCount
else:
seventsCount += "You have " + str(eventsCount) + " appointments today. "
sIndigoVar += seventsCount
for event in events:
if sBirthday not in event:
if sMilan in event:
event_parts = event.lstrip().rstrip().split("/")
eventMilan = event_parts[0] + " at " + event_parts[1]
sIndigoVar += eventMilan + ". "
elif len(event) > 5:
event_parts = event.lstrip().rstrip().split("/")
eventMilan = event_parts[0] + " at " + event_parts[1]
sIndigoVar += eventMilan + ". "
indigo.variable.updateValue(idIndigoVar, value=sIndigoVar)
indigo.server.log("Calendar - End of execution")
At the moment it works fine with my setup, if you need some changes, I can put it into GitHub
