Tracking Home Office Hours with Google Calendar

General
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Hi everyone, I’m new to Home Assistant and I’m trying to set up an automation to track my home office hours using Google Calendar. I’ve got a setup with a binary sensor that pings my work laptop to detect when it’s online. Right now, I can create a calendar entry when the laptop connects, but it only lasts for 5 minutes. I want it to start when the laptop goes online and end when it goes offline. Here’s what my current configuration looks like:

Configuration.yaml
yaml
binary_sensor:

  • platform: ping
    host: 192.168.x.x
    name: “PING”
    count: 2
    scan_interval: 30

Automation.yaml
yaml

  • id: ‘xxxx’
    alias: create a google calendar event when the notebook is online
    trigger:
    • platform: state
      entity_id: binary_sensor.ping
      to: ‘on’
      action:
    • service: google.add_event
      data:
      calendar_id: xxxx
      summary: Homeoffice
      data_template:
      start_date_time: “{{ now().timestamp() | timestamp_custom(‘%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S’, true) }}”
      end_date_time: “{{ (now().timestamp() + 300) | timestamp_custom(‘%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S’, true) }}”

I’m not sure how to make the event last until the laptop goes offline. Any tips or advice would be really helpful! Thanks in advance!