[INFO] Be careful to use iCal sample of config.js

ankonaskiff17

@sdetweil I had used a second calendar module to pull in my personal calendar information and was using the ical link that you can get off of Google if I remember correctly.
Sort of along the lines of using multiple weather modules for daily and hourly.

Then Google did something that broke the module. I fought with it for a while, gave up and have never tried to get it back running again.

sdetweil

@ankonaskiff17 google changed their url content a while back, so u had to go get it again

ankonaskiff17

@sdetweil My issue was a bit more complicated.
My PRIMARY calendar is my phone but it is Samsungs built in calendar not Google calendar
I was hopping in and out Samsung, Google and Outlook although I don’t remember the sequence of hops.
I was dumbfounded that it even worked at the time.
One of those things where only so many minutes in the day so it was relegated to back burner status.

ankonaskiff17

@sdetweil That was a good memory jogger because I had completely forgotten about the broken calendar issue.
I suspect I will go with a second calendar module like before

sdetweil

@ankonaskiff17 we are adding interval by url too

        { 
           fetchInterval:
            url: 
       }

ankonaskiff17

@sdetweil Any functional difference between updateInterval and fetchInterval

ankonaskiff17

@sdetweil I asked question because I learned way back that programs are VERY unforgiving when you put a period, colon, semicolon, anything out of place. you have no idea how often things like colons or semi-colons have whipped me for hours.

sdetweil

@ankonaskiff17 computers do things very fast. EXACTLY as you tell them…

figuring out WHAT you told them is always a challenge!

the devil is in the details…

ankonaskiff17

@sdetweil I’m going to take a crack at loading a personal calendar but have a question that maybe you can answer. really relates to the Google side of things.

Google has public and or share with certain people that I equate to a private view.
In a home network environment is there a tangible benefit of one over the other. Both are hopefully behind a firewall, you are using good password security.
Everyone in IT security always going to default to private being safer and I do not disagree but curious if there is a real difference since you are hopefully doing the proper security within your home network

sdetweil

@ankonaskiff17 I use the secret url … not sure how that is useful… if one can see inside the file system they can read the config.js and then the url works for them too…

but its something…