Turn a maintenance note into a calendar event
Send the device and maintenance note once, then let Notis place a simple reminder on your calendar.
Trigger
Webhook received
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Action
Quick Add Event
Parses natural language text to quickly create a basic google calendar event with its title, date, and time, suitable for simple scheduling; does not support direct attendee addition or recurring events, and `calendar id` must be valid if not 'primary'.
Why this helps
Small maintenance tasks are easy to postpone when they live only in a feed or device dashboard.
- Capture straightforward maintenance tasks as calendar events.
- Keep device upkeep visible alongside the rest of your schedule.
- Use natural language in the incoming request instead of manually creating an event.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Adafruit IO and Google Calendar once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and give it a clear name.
- 3Tell Notis to create a basic calendar event from the maintenance request text received by the webhook.
- 4Pick the webhook trigger and choose where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real maintenance request and confirm the event details.
Questions about this workflow
Can Quick Add create attendees or recurring events?
No. This action parses natural language for a basic event and does not support direct attendee addition or recurring events.
What if the webhook request has no date or time?
Provide scheduling rules in the instruction or include usable timing information in the request. Quick Add needs enough natural language to identify the event date and time.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Adafruit IO to Google Calendar. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Adafruit IO triggers
Google Calendar actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Insert Calendar into List
Inserts an existing calendar into the user's calendar list.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Update Calendar List Entry
Updates an existing entry on the user\'s calendar list.
Delete Calendar
Deletes a secondary calendar. use calendars.clear for clearing all events on primary calendars.
Update Calendar
Updates metadata for a calendar.
Clear Calendar
Clears a primary calendar. this operation deletes all events associated with the primary calendar of an account.
Create Event
Creates an event on a google calendar, needing rfc3339 utc start/end times (end after start) and write access to the calendar. by default, adds the organizer as an attendee unless exclude organizer is set to true.
Delete event
Deletes a specified event by `event id` from a google calendar (`calendar id`); this action is idempotent and raises a 404 error if the event is not found.
Create a calendar
Creates a new, empty google calendar with the specified title (summary).
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Adafruit IO and Google Calendar, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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