diff --git a/custom_components/ical/__init__.py b/custom_components/ical/__init__.py
index a22d781..5d33eae 100644
--- a/custom_components/ical/__init__.py
+++ b/custom_components/ical/__init__.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 from dateutil.tz import gettz, tzutc
 import icalendar
 import voluptuous as vol
+from homeassistant.components.calendar import CalendarEvent
 
 from homeassistant.config_entries import ConfigEntry
 from homeassistant.const import CONF_NAME, CONF_URL, CONF_VERIFY_SSL
@@ -106,7 +107,11 @@ async def async_get_events(self, hass, start_date, end_date):
 
                 if event["start"] < end_date and event["end"] > start_date:
                     _LOGGER.debug("... and it has")
-                    events.append(event)
+                    # strongly type class fix
+                    events.append(
+                        CalendarEvent(event["start"], event["end"], event["summary"])
+                    )
+                    # events.append(event)
         return events
 
     @Throttle(MIN_TIME_BETWEEN_UPDATES)
@@ -114,13 +119,13 @@ async def update(self):
         """Update list of upcoming events."""
         _LOGGER.debug("Running ICalEvents update for calendar %s", self.name)
         parts = urlparse(self.url)
-        if parts.scheme == 'file':
+        if parts.scheme == "file":
             with open(parts.path) as f:
                 text = f.read()
         else:
-            if parts.scheme == 'webcal':
+            if parts.scheme == "webcal":
                 # There is a potential issue here if the real URL is http, not https
-                self.url = parts.geturl().replace('webcal', 'https', 1)
+                self.url = parts.geturl().replace("webcal", "https", 1)
             session = async_get_clientsession(self.hass, verify_ssl=self.verify_ssl)
             async with session.get(self.url) as response:
                 text = await response.text()
@@ -402,7 +407,7 @@ def _ical_date_fixer(self, indate, timezone="UTC"):
         if not str(indate.tzinfo).startswith("tzfile"):
             # _LOGGER.debug("Pytz indate: %s. replacing with tz %s", str(indate), str(gettz(str(indate.tzinfo))))
             indate = indate.replace(tzinfo=gettz(str(indate.tzinfo)))
-        if str(indate.tzinfo).endswith('/UTC'):
+        if str(indate.tzinfo).endswith("/UTC"):
             indate = indate.replace(tzinfo=tzutc)
         # _LOGGER.debug("Tzinfo 2: %s", str(indate.tzinfo))
 
diff --git a/custom_components/ical/calendar.py b/custom_components/ical/calendar.py
index b4a630d..ee6a67f 100644
--- a/custom_components/ical/calendar.py
+++ b/custom_components/ical/calendar.py
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@
 
 from homeassistant.components.calendar import (
     ENTITY_ID_FORMAT,
-    CalendarEventDevice,
+    CalendarEntity,
+    CalendarEvent,
     extract_offset,
     get_date,
     is_offset_reached,
@@ -36,7 +37,7 @@ async def async_setup_entry(hass, config_entry, async_add_entities):
     async_add_entities([calendar], True)
 
 
-class ICalCalendarEventDevice(CalendarEventDevice):
+class ICalCalendarEventDevice(CalendarEntity):
     """A device for getting the next Task from a WebDav Calendar."""
 
     def __init__(self, hass, name, entity_id, ical_events):
@@ -78,9 +79,11 @@ async def async_update(self):
         (summary, offset) = extract_offset(event["summary"], OFFSET)
         event["summary"] = summary
         self._offset_reached = is_offset_reached(event["start"], offset)
-        self._event = copy.deepcopy(event)
-        self._event["start"] = {}
-        self._event["end"] = {}
-        self._event["start"]["dateTime"] = event["start"].isoformat()
-        self._event["end"]["dateTime"] = event["end"].isoformat()
-        self._event["all_day"] = event["all_day"]
+        self._event = CalendarEvent(event["start"], event["end"], event["summary"])
+        # strongly typed class required.
+        # self._event = copy.deepcopy(event)
+        # self._event["start"] = {}
+        # self._event["end"] = {}
+        # self._event["start"]["dateTime"] = event["start"].isoformat()
+        # self._event["end"]["dateTime"] = event["end"].isoformat()
+        # self._event["all_day"] = event["all_day"]
diff --git a/hacs.json b/hacs.json
index 9677119..2150249 100644
--- a/hacs.json
+++ b/hacs.json
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 {
   "name": "iCal Sensor",
-  "homeassistant":"2022.4.0"
+  "homeassistant":"2022.5.0"
 }
diff --git a/ical_updater.json b/ical_updater.json
index 2c37dae..69eaf9a 100644
--- a/ical_updater.json
+++ b/ical_updater.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
     "sensor.ical": {
-      "updated_at": "2022-04-07",
-      "version": "1.5.0",
+      "updated_at": "2022-07-18",
+      "version": "1.6.0",
       "local_location": "/custom_components/ics/__init__.py",
       "remote_location": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tybritten/ical-sensor-homeassistant/master/__init__.py",
       "visit_repo": "https://github.com/tybritten/ical-sensor-homeassistant/",