Synchronize Your Day: Google Calendar to Slack Status & Philips Hue
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Effortlessly keep your Slack status and Philips Hue lights in sync with your Google Calendar events. This workflow automatically updates your availability and ambient lighting based on your schedule, ensuring focus and clear communication.
About This Workflow
This n8n workflow automates your personal or work environment by integrating Google Calendar with Slack and Philips Hue. When an event starts on your Google Calendar, the workflow identifies its color and type to determine your availability. Based on this, it updates your Slack status with the event's summary and sets a corresponding color on your Philips Hue lights. This intelligent synchronization helps you stay focused during meetings, signals your availability to colleagues, and creates an appropriate atmosphere for different types of activities, from deep work to personal time.
Key Features
- Automated Slack Status Updates: Reflect your real-time availability directly in Slack.
- Dynamic Philips Hue Lighting: Set the mood and indicate your status with color-coded lights.
- Intelligent Event Recognition: Differentiates between various event types and calendar colors for precise automation.
- Seamless Google Calendar Integration: Leverages your existing calendar events as triggers.
- Customizable Color Mappings: Easily adjust how calendar colors translate to light and status.
How To Use
- Connect Your Google Calendar: Authorize n8n with your Google Calendar account.
- Configure Calendar Trigger: Set the
Event Startednode to monitor your primary calendar and poll for events every 5 minutes. - Map Calendar Colors: In the
Set CalColornode, customize thefunctionCodeto map your Google CalendarcolorIdvalues to descriptive names (e.g., '4dw_leading', '4dw_doing', '4dw_living'). - Define Status and Light Rules: Configure the
Switchnode to interpret the mappedcalColorvalues. - Set Up Slack Status: Connect your Slack account and in the
Slack - Statusnode, use the eventsummaryfor the status text and the mappedcalColorfor the status emoji. - Configure Philips Hue Webhooks: In the
Light - Busy,Light - Personal, andLight - Availablenodes, replaceWEBHOOK1,WEBHOOK2, andWEBHOOK3with the actual webhook URLs for your Philips Hue lights to control specific scenes or colors. - Enable the Workflow: Activate the workflow to start synchronizing your schedule.
Apps Used
Workflow JSON
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"id": "70faf6d9-32c7-42b3-a9c1-ff73d000a2ff",
"name": "Synchronize Your Day: Google Calendar to Slack Status & Philips Hue",
"nodes": 13,
"category": "Personal",
"status": "active",
"version": "1.0.0"
}Note: This is a sample preview. The full workflow JSON contains node configurations, credentials placeholders, and execution logic.
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