Best way to trigger on "time of day"?

Discussion & Questions
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I've tried "Time based triggers" and don't find them to be reliable, especially when the mac is in some type of sleep. So in the past I used Calendar app to trigger automator / applescripts. In this case it's to play certain playlists at different times of day.

What's the most reliable way to do this in BTT? Right now I'm trying Calendar to open a dummy applescript application which triggers BTT by "Specific App Did Launch" but that seems overly complicated.

If I stick with this method is "Specific App Activate" more reliable than "Did Launch"?
Is there a better way to approach all this?

EDIT:
Also, when using this new method of Calendar -> Applescript App -> "App Did Activate/Launch/Terminate", I keep finding that BTT will run the set of actions 3x, very reliably. Ive tried all three (Activate, Launch, Terminate), and it runs 3x most of the time.

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UPDATE: iCal "open file" likes to break because its not "On My Mac". apparently you cant have both anymore.

Automator works better than Applescript with ical events, so I now use a single automator to point to a series of applescripts set up in BTT. So if i want different things to trigger at 9, 12, and 3, I will have Cal events open the same Automator application, and it uses this script

on run {input, parameters}
tell application "BetterTouchTool"
trigger_named "AllCalEvents"
end tell
return input
end run

That is an applescript in BTT with script along the lines of "if hours are between x and y, run this named trigger".

Pretty convoluted but its working. Anything to get the scripts some distance from calendar (while still using its very reliable triggering)