Calendar Module not working with Google Calendar

sdetweil

can u turn on debug in config.js

add

,"DEBUG"

to the loglevel: list

then let’s use non pm2 to capture the info

pm2 stop all
cd ~/MagicMirror
npm start >somefile.txt 2>&1

wait til u think the error occurs
ctrl-q

to top mm

then look at the somefile.txt

search for the isostring

you should see dates=
for each event

the problem was the rule.between function which calculates the repeating events would return junk
I put in a filter to remove the junk.

anyhow, then remove the DEBUG
thing from config.js

and you can use pm2 to restart mm til we figure it out

if u can, send the somefile.txt to me via email
my userid here at gmail

AnduriI

@sdetweil wow I was not aware of all old events also being sent and parsed… from 5+ years ago. That’s a lot of entries… (more than 1500 only for my main calendar)
I sent the log via eMail to you.

sdetweil

@AnduriI yes, the ics holds all that junk

sdetweil

@AnduriI are u willing to share one of the trouble cal urls so I can debug?

send in a private chat. not via mail. after use I will delete the data and the chat.

sdetweil

@AnduriI also try this

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm install electron@28.1.1

redink

@sdetweil, would you mind sharing how you set up a filter for the events? I have a suspicion that too many events are causing some items to now show up on calendar.

sdetweil

@redink there are no backend (at the ICS parser) filters

on the front end (browser display) there are the following config options that affect event display

maximumEntries,
maximumNumberOfDays,
hidePrivate,
hideOngoing and
hideDuplicates

the default calendar module NEVER displays events before today. but it will broadcast them for other modules to use ( MMM-CalendarExt3* uses them)

sadly the parser does NOT indicate where today is in the stream of events parsed (the ICS has EVERYTHING in it). the only way to fix this is to make a breaking change, and send two lists, old and future

because of the single list , maximumEntries , CAN/DOES cause the event list to get clipped before any current events can be processed.

redink

@sdetweil ok, that makes sense.

My issue is really strange where my two recurring weekly events only show up during the first two weeks of the month, and are ignored the rest of the time until the next month. I even tested installed thunderbird to open the ICS file to check that the issue isn’t with google calendar. Thunderbird displays the recurring events just fine.

It’s making me think if I should hack together some kind a pre-processor to only return events that are relevant to the view.

sdetweil

@redink yes, new rrule is having trouble…

lets go back to the prior parser

cd  ~/MagicMirror
npm install node-ical@0.16.1

redink

@sdetweil That did it. Thank you so much. I spent two hours this morning trying to fix this.
How did you know that this was an issue? I need to get better at learning how to troubleshoot this mirror myself.