MMM-CalendarExt3 - use hidden calendar and remote weather locale?

[eqpaisley]

Installed MMM-CalExt3 and it’s working well. Looks like it requires data from the generic calendar module. I’d like the MMM-CalExt3 module to show data that does not appear in my generic calendar module. Can I add a calendar to the generic mod and then not show it somehow?

Also MMM-CalExt3 pulls in weather icons from the generic weather module (which is awesome). But I’d like weather icons from a DIFFERENT location (my calendar shows availability at a rental in another city so I’d like the weather in THAT city to show up on the calendar).

Anyone know if these things are doable?

[sdetweil]

@eqpaisley remove the position on the default calendar, then it won’t show.

you can do multiple calendar module entries, and also multiple calendars in one entry.

weather, set the location there. takes either a location Id or lat/long

symbols I think u define those on the default cal, they get broadcast for ext3

[eqpaisley]

@sdetweil said in MMM-CalendarExt3 - use hidden calendar and remote weather locale?:

@eqpaisley remove the position on the default calendar, then it won’t show.

I do want the default calendar to show, but I want MMMCal3 to show different calendar. I have 4 google calendars all in my default module. I want a 5th calendar that doesn’t appear in my default, to appear in MMMCal3.

you can do multiple calendar module entries, and also multiple calendars in one entry.

weather, set the location there. takes either a location Id or lat/long

Set the location withint MMCal3? I want my weather module to show my weather where I live, but I want MMMCal3 to show the weather icons of a different location.

[sdetweil]

@eqpaisley ext3 doesn’t know where the data was sourced from

create ANOTHER calendar module w just one entry

create another weather module w a different location

both w position not specified

note: weather providers are getting restrictive on free access. sone provide enough for 1 day, maybe every hour… two weathers will double the counts…

[eqpaisley]

@sdetweil ahhhh I understand.

Sorry to ask to be spoonfed here – when creating a 2nd instance of a default module, can that just be done in the config or do I need a 2nd copy of the entire calendar directory? How will I distinguish between the two for the purposes of having MMMCal3 pull data from one but not the other?

[eqpaisley]

@sdetweil Actually I figured it out SORT OF. Just added another calendar module and no position and it did exactly what you said. However – if I don’t put this second instance of the calendar as the LAST thing in my config.js, it stops all modules below it from loading. Really odd.

Thanks for all the help!

[MMRIZE]

@eqpaisley
You can use

calendarSet: ['CALENDAR_NAME1', 'CALENDAR_NAME2', ...], 

You need to assign a name attribute to your target calendar of default calendar module(s).

For specifying the target weather, once I considered that case but had thought nobody would use the weather module like that. But finally, here are you. I’ll implement that feature on the next update.

[eqpaisley]

@MMRIZE said in MMM-CalendarExt3 - use hidden calendar and remote weather locale?:

For specifying the target weather, once I considered that case but had thought nobody would use the weather module like that. But finally, here are you. I’ll implement that feature on the next update.

I have arrived!!! :)

Kidding. But, yeah, if I could throw my openweather API key and new location data into the MMMCal3 config, that would be sick!

[sdetweil]

@eqpaisley odd indeed. all the default modules support multiple instances , by config in config.js

[BKeyport]

@eqpaisley here’s what I would do. Install MMM-CalendarExt3Agenda and use it instead of the default calendar module to display events. You’ll still use calendar, just not use it with the position indicator. CE3A gives you a ton more control over the calendars displayed and used, is prettier, and more functional, IMO.