Adding shopping list items via Home Assistant voice commands

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 12:01:00 +0000

I recently got access to a couple of Home Assistant Voice Previews, and wanted a way to quickly add items to my shopping list using voice commands. The built-in intents for adding todo list items are kind of wordy, and I liked how Alexa had a simple “Alexa add foo” shortcut to add items to a default shopping list.

After some tinkering, I came up with a simple setup that uses Home Assistant’s conversation integration, intent_script, and a few custom sentences to streamline the process.

Holiday time - bulk declining Google Calendar events

Mon, 03 Jul 2017 19:00:00 +0000

I’m getting married in a few weeks, so recently I wanted a way to decline about 3 weeks worth of Google Calendar events en-masse. Since I was using Google Apps for our organisation’s calendar, I found the easiest way to accomplish this was to bust out some Google Apps Scripting, which lets you script a number of Google Apps in your domain, including the Calendar.

See an example below on how to bulk decline Google Calendar events using Google Apps Scripting - you’ll just need a calendar name & a date range and run this via the script console:

scripting — Jason Madigan

Adding shopping list items via Home Assistant voice commands

Holiday time - bulk declining Google Calendar events