Check availability before settling on a maintenance window
Get a clear view of calendar conflicts before you choose when to pause or service a device.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Query Free/Busy Information
Returns free/busy information for a set of calendars.
Why this helps
Picking a maintenance time without checking calendars can create avoidable conflicts and rescheduling.
- Check free and busy information across selected calendars.
- Make maintenance planning easier before inviting others or committing to a window.
- Use a defined time range to focus the availability check.
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 which calendars and time window to check before planning device maintenance.
- 4Pick the recurring schedule trigger and choose where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real run and review the availability result.
Questions about this workflow
Does this create a maintenance event?
No. Query Free/Busy Information returns availability. Use the result to choose a time, then create a calendar event in a separate step or workflow.
What maintenance details does Adafruit IO provide to this workflow?
No Adafruit IO trigger event is listed. Provide the planned maintenance window or other device context in the automation instruction or through an available input.
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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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