Google Calendar integration does not react to homeassistant.update_entity service

[matejdro]

The problem

When performing homeassistant.update_entity service on Google Calendar, integration will not update.

I understand that under normal circumstances, polling interval is set to 15 minutes to avoid overwhelming Google's servers. But IMO integration should still respond to requests for manual refresh.

Environment

• Home Assistant Core release with the issue: 0.118.5
• Last working Home Assistant Core release (if known): /
• Operating environment (Home Assistant/Supervised/Docker/venv): Docker
• Integration causing this issue: Google Calendar Event
• Link to integration documentation on our website: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/calendar.google/

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[matejdro]

Still happening in 2021.2.0

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[matejdro]

anti stale

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[matejdro]

there has been no changes. Still the same with Home Assistant 2021.9.2

[travipross]

+1

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[matejdro]

Still happening with HA 2021.12.7

[jherby2k]

I don't really understand why new calendar events show up more or less immediately in the calendar UI / card, but the entity doesn't update, as per https://community.home-assistant.io/t/google-calendar-integration-strange-behaviour/323673/4.

the documentation suggests we can use these calendar entities for triggering automations, but it just doesn't work if the entity doesn't update.

[allenporter]

I've been digging into the calendar integration and re-writing how it works to simplify things. Here is what is going on. There are two paths:

• Interactive calendar UI path that sends requests live to google to query the calendar
• Entity path: The entity updates every few seconds/minutes (e.g. so that it can detect the next event has become "active"), but the data refresh happens every 15 minutes and is limited with a throttler.

I have been thinking about how to unify these paths by doing a more efficienct synchronization down to device so both paths use the same data and serve it locally so it is more reliable (proposed design) and also so that its more efficient to implement triggers for automations.

There is not necessarily a simple way to separate out these two notions of entity update. The integration can't tell the difference between a normal refresh and a forced update as far as I know to know to allow a data fetch.

[swiergot]

Related issue (sadly closed as stale): #57128

[allenporter]

One quick update: Google calendar now syncs down data to local (when not using search) and so the UI view and state are in sync. However, there are still two separate update mechanisms because the state represented by the calendar and the "next event" are separate. I don't see a simple solution yet to make this work better.

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[matejdro]

This is still relevant issue.

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[matejdro]

This is still an issue in Home Assistant 2023.6.3

[allenporter]

Assigning this to myself as I finally understand the solution to this problem.