📅 2024-12-13 — Session: Integrated Weather Alerts with Google Calendar
🕒 14:25–15:40
🏷️ Labels: N8N, Google Calendar, Weather Alerts, Automation
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The session aimed to integrate weather alerts into Google Calendar using n8n, ensuring that alerts do not block existing tasks by creating all-day events.
Key Activities
- Integration Setup: Followed a guide to integrate weather alerts into Google Calendar using n8n.
- Dynamic Event Configuration: Configured Google Calendar events with dynamic titles and end times using JavaScript expressions.
- Time Zone Debugging: Identified and fixed time zone issues between n8n and Google Calendar.
- API Time Zone Handling: Addressed time zone mismatches in timestamps from the OpenWeatherMap API.
- JavaScript Scripting: Developed a script for calculating start and end times for weather notifications, adjusting for time zones.
- Event Transparency: Configured events in Google Calendar to appear as ‘free’ by setting the transparency property in n8n.
Achievements
- Successfully integrated weather alerts into Google Calendar, ensuring non-blocking events.
- Resolved time zone issues for accurate date and time management.
- Implemented dynamic event titles and end times.
Pending Tasks
- Further testing of the workflow to ensure all edge cases are handled.
- Explore additional automation possibilities with n8n and Google Calendar.