MMM-CalendarExt2 vertical orientation positioning

Michelle.H2020

I am using MMM-Calendar ext 2 and a vertical orientation is there a way to make the calender on the lower half of the screen? Anyone have pictures of vertical orientation set up with configurations? Thanks!

sdetweil

@Michelle-H2020 its all the same, use one of the bottom regions, or middle

Michelle.H2020

@sdetweil

https://share.icloud.com/photos/0f6Xo23_KyxA9_avmzoTSWAOQ

This is my setup it is taking up the whole screen when I use bottom half I want it on the lower portion condensed .

sdetweil

@Michelle-H2020 and what position do you have the module configured for?

show the module config, (you can xxx out the urls…)

Michelle.H2020

@sdetweil

{
  module: 'MMM-CalendarExt2',
position:.......  //<-----  mm position missing.
  config: {
    calendars : [
      {
        url: "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/XXXXXXCXXXbasic.ics",
        
      },
{
  url: "https://calendar.google.com/calendarXXXXXXXXXXXXbasic.ics",
  name: "michelles",
  maxItems: 20,
  scanInterval: 1000*60*30,
  beforeDays: 60,
  afterDays: 365,
  maxIterations: 100,
  forceLocalTZ: false,
  replaceTitle:[],
  icon: "noto-beach-with-umbrella",
  className: "michelle",
 
  filter: (event)=>{return true}
}
    ],
    views: [
      {
        mode: "week",
      },

{
  name: "halfscreen view",
  mode: "weekly",
  position: "halfscreen_below",
  title: "My Schedule",
  fromNow: -1,
  slotCount: 4,
  slotMaxHeight: "60px",
  showWeekends: true,
},
{
  name: "VIEW1",
  mode: "daily",
  title: "My Schedule",
  position: "top_left",
},
    ],
    scenes: [
      {
        name: "DEFAULT",
      },
    ],
  },

sdetweil

@Michelle-H2020

1st you should move to CalendarExt3, as ext2 is not really supported anymore…

@MMRIZE can you help here?

Michelle.H2020

@sdetweil ahh ok let me try the ext3 I had only used this one because of a youtube video that I was following, and a calander that finally actually worked for me as the others were not showing up on the screen.

sdetweil

@Michelle-H2020 ext no longer reads the calendar itself, but relies on the built in calendar module to do that and broadcast the event data and Ext3 reads that broadcast…

you can have the default cal not on screen (no position), but still broadcasting so there is a decent amount of change, but ext3 does honor some MM positions, so you can have it lower,

Michelle.H2020

@sdetweil

I get a bunch of red errors when trying to run the Ext 3

{
  module: "MMM-CalendarExt3",
  position: "bottom_bar",
  title: "test",
  config: {
    mode: "month",
    instanceId: "basicCalendar",
    locale: 'de-DE',
    maxEventLines: 5,
    firstDayOfWeek: 1,
    calendarSet: "my test",
   
  }
},
{
  module: "calendar",
  position: "top_left",
  config: {
    broadcastPastEvents: true, 
    calendars: [
      {
        
	url: "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/XXXXXXXXX/public/basic.ics",
        name: "test", 
        color: "red",
      },

I use this and get the error
01.11.2023 17:10.06.203] [ERROR] WARNING! Could not validate config file. Starting with default configuration. Please correct syntax errors at or above this line: /home/mirror/MagicMirror/config/config.js:186
};

SyntaxError: Unexpected token ‘;’
at internalCompileFunction (node:internal/vm:73:18)
at wrapSafe (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1185:20)
at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1227:27)
at Object…js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1326:10)

not sure where the error is

sdetweil

@Michelle-H2020 So what is above line 186 where the semicolon is?

MMRIZE

@Michelle-H2020
CX2 doesn’t respect usual MM’s positioning. It manage number of “views” in multi-positions, so you need to assign position to each “view”, not module itself.
Read manuals.

And other documents also.

sdetweil

@MMRIZE I think she’s trying EXT 3 now

Michelle.H2020

@sdetweil

[01.11.2023 19:44.21.401] [ERROR] WARNING! Could not validate config file. Starting with default configuration. Please correct syntax errors at or above this line: /home/mirror/MagicMirror/config/config.js:189
if (typeof module !== “undefined”) {module.exports = config;}
^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token ‘typeof’
at internalCompileFunction (node:internal/vm:73:18)
at wrapSafe (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1185:20)
at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1227:27)
at Object…js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1326:10)
at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1126:32)
at node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:967:12
at Function._load (node:electron/js2c/asar_bundle:2:13327)
at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1150:19)
at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:110:18)
at loadConfig (/home/mirror/MagicMirror/js/app.js:117:14)
at App.start (/home/mirror/MagicMirror/js/app.js:247:18)
at Object. (/home/mirror/MagicMirror/js/electron.js:190:7)
at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1271:14)
at Object…js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1326:10)
at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1126:32)
at node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:967:12

This is starting at line 180 so there is nothing really there at all??

		}
	},
	
]

},

/*************** DO NOT EDIT THE LINE BELOW ***************/
if (typeof module !== “undefined”) {module.exports = config;}

sdetweil

@Michelle-H2020 well, it appears you deleted a closing }
when u pasted in the new module entry

look at the bottom of the config.js.sample file in the same folder

Michelle.H2020

@sdetweil

Not sure what I did :/ pretty sure I will have to start over and just copy and paste a default config. Do you think I can delete and just copy the whole screw of the sample ?

sdetweil

@Michelle-H2020 when i use my script, I copy the sample to config.js

mv config.js broken-config
cp config.js.sample config.js

then move your good parts from broken to config.js

a module is

{
   module: ...name
    ...
   config: {
     .....
   }
},

always make sure the open { matches the close }

Michelle.H2020

I seem to have got it working I am just wondering how I adjust the events so I don’t just see a few letters of the event, and also the cell height adjustment code when I looked under the module it says

manipulateDateCell callback function See the manipulating dateCell part.

can you give me any info on this? thanks