Google calendar

community/google-calendar/README.md

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+# Google Calendar Ability
+
+Voice-controlled Google Calendar integration for OpenHome. Supports scheduling, rescheduling, deleting events, managing attendees, listing schedules, querying who's on a meeting, and conflict detection.
+
+## Setup
+
+### Google Account
+
+Link your Google account in OpenHome settings. The ability uses the platform's built-in Google authentication — no API keys or tokens to configure manually.
+
+### contacts.json
+
+Place a `contacts.json` file in the ability directory (next to `main.py`). This maps names to email addresses so the ability can resolve spoken names to calendar invitees.
+
+Two formats are supported:
+
+**Simple** -- just name-to-email:
+
+```json
+{
+  "Dude": "dude@example.com",
+  "Buddy": "buddy@example.com"
+}
+```
+
+**With aliases** -- for names that speech-to-text frequently mishears:
+
+```json
+{
+  "Friend": {
+    "email": "friend@example.com",
+    "aliases": ["Fren", "Frind", "Fred"]
+  }
+}
+```
+
+Aliases are matched phonetically by the LLM, so STT errors like "Von" for "Vaughn" get resolved correctly. Without this file, attendee features (invite, remove, query) are disabled.
+
+## Supported Intents
+
+| Intent | Example phrases |
+|---|---|
+| Schedule | "Schedule a meeting with Mark tomorrow at 3 PM", "Schedule a call with Jim Friday at noon" |
+| Reschedule | "Move the standup to 4 PM", "Reschedule test meeting to Friday" |
+| Delete | "Cancel the meeting tomorrow", "Delete the standup" |
+| Rename | "Rename the standup meeting to team sync", "Change the name of that call" |
+| Make recurring | "Make that a weekly recurring", "Set the standup to repeat every week" |
+| List | "What's on my calendar tomorrow", "What do I have at 2 PM" |
+| Invite | "Add Tim to the standup", "Invite Jessica to that meeting" |
+| Remove attendee | "Take Gus off the invite", "Remove Sophia from the weekly standup" |
+| Query attendees | "Who's on the standup?", "Who's attending the meeting tomorrow?" |
+| Accept invite | "Accept that invite", "Accept the shared meeting" |
+| Decline invite | "Decline the invite", "Turn down that meeting" |
+| Set reminder | "Remind me 20 minutes before my workout session", "Set a 60 minute reminder for the board meeting" |
+
+## Key Behaviors
+
+**Active capability (main.py)**
+
+Handles all user-initiated calendar actions above. At any confirmation step the user can append a
+follow-on request — "Sounds good, but also invite John" — and both actions execute. After any
+operation, vague references like "that meeting" or "this event" resolve to the last touched event
+without re-searching.
+
+When scheduling or rescheduling, overlapping events are detected and the user is warned before
+proceeding. List queries like "what do I have at 2 PM" find events spanning that time, not just
+events starting then.
+
+If an event name isn't recognized, the ability asks for clarification and retries the lookup up to
+twice — it does not drop context or treat the clarification as a new scheduling request.
+
+Per-meeting reminder preferences are stored persistently and survive restarts. Contacts are resolved
+by first name from a local contact list. Timezone is automatically detected from your OpenHome profile.
+
+**Background daemon (background.py)**
+
+Polls the calendar every 30 seconds and maintains a local events cache and `upcoming_schedule.md`.
+Proactively interrupts with spoken notifications for:
+
+- New invites received from other organizers — "You got an invite to Shared Meeting today at 8 PM"
+- Events cancelled by the organizer
+- Events renamed or rescheduled externally
+- Attendees accepting or declining
+- New attendees added to an event you're on
+
+Meeting reminders fire based on per-event preferences stored in `user_preferences.md`. The default
+lead time is configurable, and individual meetings can have their own override (e.g.
+`Standup meeting: 30 min`, `HR meeting: 60 min`).
+
+## Recommended Hotwords
+
+Calendar
+Schedule
+What is on my
+Reschedule
+Invite
+Uninvite
+Push back
+What do I have going on
+Who's on
+Who's going to be
+Cancel
+Meeting
+Remind me about