Google Calendar to Slack Status & Philips Hue Lights
Monitors Google Calendar events to auto-update Slack status with emojis and change Philips Hue lights via Home Assistant, signaling availability (green/blue for interruptible, red for busy).
This workflow automates productivity signaling by integrating Google Calendar, Slack, and Philips Hue lights. When a calendar event starts, it updates your Slack status with a color-coded emoji (based on Diary Detox system) and the event title. Simultaneously, it triggers a color change on your Philips Hue lamp through a Home Assistant webhook, turning it green or blue for available periods and red for busy focus time.
Setup requires a Google Calendar trigger node, Slack node using User OAuth T
- Platform
- n8n
- Category
- Utilities
- Price
- $14.99
- Creator
- Jordi Faber
- Google Calendar
- Slack
- Philips Hue
- Home Assistant
- Productivity
- Status Update
- Smart Lights
- Webhook
- Automation
- Diary Detox
How to import this workflow into n8n
- 1Purchase or download the workflow to get the n8n workflow JSON file.
- 2In your n8n instance, open Workflows and choose "Import from File" (or paste the JSON with Ctrl+V on the canvas).
- 3Open each node marked with a credential warning and connect your own accounts and API keys.
- 4Run the workflow once manually to verify the data flow, then toggle it to Active.
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