Cynical Calendars

So, like others the plugin is not working for me (created event on my phone to test), but while I'm here I'd like to ask if there's any kind of wild card characters I can put into the 'Regular Expression' fields. I'd like to execute an action when an event occurs that just contains a phrase, but won't ever match it exactly. (Specifically, I subscribe to a baseball team's schedule calendar, and I'd like to execute an event whenever the games start, but they all have different titles depending on who they're playing. i.e. Houston Astros vs. Kansas City Royals).

The docs for Cynical Calendar are here: http://www.cynic.org/indigo/plugins/onl ... endarevent

They link to regular expression docs here: https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html

Regular expressions are wildcards on steroids. If you post the phrase you want to search for, we can help you determine the regular expression to use.

joe

Sweet! So if all of my events read like, "Houston Astros vs. Kansas City Royals" or "Texas Rangers vs. Houston Astros", I can put in something like:

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.Houston Astros.

(Not sure if that covers it or not, I just skimmed that link and have to run out of the house, but that seems like the right idea).

If you're sure of the capitalization, it should be:

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.*Houston Astros.*

As that accounts for multiple letters before and after.

Or you could do this, just in case:

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.*[hH]ouston [aA]stros.*

There's also ways to account for the white space between the words, but I'm not really a regex expert.

joe

Ahh, yeah I saw those stars and didn't read carefully enough. Perfect. The calendar feed is straight from the team, so capitalization, spelling, etc is nice and consistent.

Just some followup and to add some anecdotes to the sample... I cannot seem to get this plugin to detect any calendar events, so whatever issue everyone is having... I'm having it too.

Aaaaaaaand it totally worked today. And it was Glorious. Amen.

And how did you get it working?

No idea. Today it didn't work. I'm not really actively testing it right now though either. Basically, I set up a trigger to turn on the TV and set channel to the Astros whenever they play (using their schedule in iCal as the trigger). The other day the TV turned itself on, today it did not.