Missing calendar item for daily recurrence

golfyankee · Jan 24, 2024, 1:28 AM

I just installed MM2 for the first time today and having some calendar issues.

I have a daily recurrences on my calendar that do not show up daily. This looks to be happening on all of my daily recurrences. The first even is showing January despite the fact that on my Outlook calendar it’s showing up every day.

My calendar module is configured as follows:

		{
			module: "calendar",
			header: "My Calendar",
			position: "top_left",
			config: {
				broadcastPastEvents: true,
				maximumEntries: 25,
				coloredSymbol: true,
				showLocation: true,
				fetchInterval: 300000,
				hidePrivate: true,
				fadePoint: 0.5,
				hideDuplicates: false,
				calendars: [
					{
						name: "family",
						color: "orange",
						symbol: "people-group",
						url: "https://<redacted>/calendar.ics"
					},
					{
						name: "personal",
						color: "yellow",
						symbol: "house",
						url: "https://<redacted>/calendar.ics"
					},
					{
						name: "work",
						color: "blue",
						symbol: "building",
						url: "https://<redacted>/calendar.ics"
					},
					{
						name: "reminders",
						color: "green",
						symbol: "bell",
						url: "https://<redacted>/calendar.ics"
					},
					{
						name: "holidays",
						color: "red",
						symbol: "gift",
						url: "https://<redacted>/US_en.ics"
					}
				]
			}
		},

Here is one of the daily recurrences that are not showing correctly pulled from the ICS.

BEGIN:VEVENT
RRULE:FREQ=DAILY;UNTIL=20250124T010000Z;INTERVAL=1
UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E008000000009CD63C72A928DA01000000000000000
 0100000002D4E67C9F410824AB6799179F4978088
SUMMARY:Feed the dogs
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific Standard Time:20231206T170000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific Standard Time:20231206T173000
CLASS:PUBLIC
PRIORITY:5
DTSTAMP:20240123T225025Z
TRANSP:OPAQUE
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
LOCATION:
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-APPT-SEQUENCE:0
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:BUSY
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INTENDEDSTATUS:BUSY
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INSTTYPE:1
X-MICROSOFT-DONOTFORWARDMEETING:FALSE
X-MICROSOFT-DISALLOW-COUNTER:FALSE
X-MICROSOFT-REQUESTEDATTENDANCEMODE:DEFAULT
X-MICROSOFT-ISRESPONSEREQUESTED:FALSE
END:VEVENT

I enabled DEBUG and and seeing the following in the following log entries:

[32m0|mm  | [39m[23.01.2024 17:07.16.373] [DEBUG] Processing entry...
[32m0|mm  | [39m[23.01.2024 17:07.16.373] [DEBUG] Event:
[32m0|mm  | [39m{"type":"VEVENT","params":[],"rrule":{"_cache":{"all":false,"before":[],"after":[],"between":[]},"origOptions":{"tzid":"America/Los_Angeles","dtstart":"2023-12-07T01:00:00.000Z","freq":3,"until":"2025-01-24T01:00:00.000Z","interval":1},"options":{"freq":3,"dtstart":"2023-12-07T01:00:00.000Z","interval":1,"wkst":0,"count":null,"until":"2025-01-24T01:00:00.000Z","tzid":"America/Los_Angeles","bysetpos":null,"bymonth":null,"bymonthday":[],"bynmonthday":[],"byyearday":null,"byweekno":null,"byweekday":null,"bynweekday":null,"byhour":[1],"byminute":[0],"bysecond":[0],"byeaster":null}},"uid":"040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E008000000009CD63C72A928DA010000000000000000100000002D4E67C9F410824AB6799179F4978088","summary":"Feed the dogs","start":"2023-12-07T01:00:00.000Z","datetype":"date-time","end":"2023-12-07T01:30:00.000Z","class":"PUBLIC","priority":"5","dtstamp":"2024-01-24T01:07:12.000Z","transparency":"OPAQUE","status":"CONFIRMED","sequence":"0","location":"","MICROSOFT-CDO-APPT-SEQUENCE":"0","MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS":"BUSY","MICROSOFT-CDO-INTENDEDSTATUS":"BUSY","MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT":"FALSE","MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE":"1","MICROSOFT-CDO-INSTTYPE":"1","MICROSOFT-DONOTFORWARDMEETING":"FALSE","MICROSOFT-DISALLOW-COUNTER":"FALSE","MICROSOFT-REQUESTEDATTENDANCEMODE":"DEFAULT","MICROSOFT-ISRESPONSEREQUESTED":"FALSE","method":"PUBLISH","recurrences":{"2024-01-03":{"type":"VEVENT","params":[],"uid":"040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E008000000009CD63C72A928DA010000000000000000100000002D4E67C9F410824AB6799179F4978088","recurrenceid":"2024-01-03T01:00:00.000Z","summary":"Feed the dogs","start":"2024-01-03T01:00:00.000Z","datetype":"date-time","end":"2024-01-03T01:30:00.000Z","class":"PUBLIC","priority":"5","dtstamp":"2024-01-24T01:07:12.000Z","transparency":"OPAQUE","status":"CONFIRMED","sequence":"0","location":"","MICROSOFT-CDO-APPT-SEQUENCE":"0","MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS":"BUSY","MICROSOFT-CDO-INTENDEDSTATUS":"BUSY","MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT":"FALSE","MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE":"1","MICROSOFT-CDO-INSTTYPE":"3","MICROSOFT-DONOTFORWARDMEETING":"FALSE","MICROSOFT-DISALLOW-COUNTER":"FALSE","MICROSOFT-REQUESTEDATTENDANCEMODE":"DEFAULT","MICROSOFT-ISRESPONSEREQUESTED":"FALSE"}}}
[32m0|mm  | [39m[23.01.2024 17:07.16.373] [DEBUG] start: Wed Dec 06 2023 17:00:00 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
[32m0|mm  | [39m[23.01.2024 17:07.16.373] [DEBUG] end:: Wed Dec 06 2023 17:30:00 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
[32m0|mm  | [39m[23.01.2024 17:07.16.373] [DEBUG] duration: 1800000
[32m0|mm  | [39m[23.01.2024 17:07.16.373] [DEBUG] title: Feed the dogs
[32m0|mm  | [39m[23.01.2024 17:07.16.373] [DEBUG] Search for recurring events between: Mon Jan 23 2023 00:00:00 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time) and Tue Jan 21 2025 23:59:59 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
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[32m0|mm  | [39m[23.01.2024 17:07.16.522] [DEBUG] event.recurrences: [object Object]
[32m0|mm  | [39m[23.01.2024 17:07.16.522] [DEBUG]  recurring date is Wed Dec 06 2023 17:00:00 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time) offset is 480
[32m0|mm  | [39m[23.01.2024 17:07.16.522] [DEBUG]  recurring date is Wed Dec 06 2023 17:00:00 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time) offset is 8 Hour is 17
[32m0|mm  | [39m[23.01.2024 17:07.16.522] [DEBUG] new recurring date2 is Wed Dec 06 2023 17:00:00 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
[32m0|mm  | [39m[23.01.2024 17:07.16.522] [DEBUG] Corrected startDate: Wed Dec 06 2023 17:00:00 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
[32m0|mm  | [39m[23.01.2024 17:07.16.522] [DEBUG] initial tz=America/Los_Angeles

If you look at the specific log entry:

[32m0|mm  | [39m[23.01.2024 17:07.16.521] [DEBUG] Title: Feed the dogs, with dates: 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I can see that the missing dates are all null in the array. I saw other bugs reported that node-ical has issued but I tried both 0.17.0 and 0.17.1 with no luck in solving this issue.

Any assistance is appreciated.

sdetweil · Jan 24, 2024, 2:08 AM

@golfyankee

npm install node-ical@0.16.1

golfyankee · Jan 24, 2024, 2:15 AM

Thanks @sdetweil

I just downgraded node-ical to 0.16.1 and that didn’t work either

sdetweil · Jan 24, 2024, 2:35 AM

@golfyankee yes, rrule has trouble with recurring with old entries. there is no fix at this time.

we don’t own or maintain node-ical, rrule,…
I put a fix in this release to strip out the null entries that were causing a crash.

someone has recently submitted a pull request will some pretty significant changes to this part of the cal code. we haven’t had a chance to test it.

you can try it by doing

cd ~/MagicMirror
git fetch origin pull/3342/head:test_calendar
git checkout test_calendar

you can switch back w

git checkout master

golfyankee · Jan 24, 2024, 7:18 AM

@sdetweil Do you know what the specific problem is? I tried to recreate the daily recurrence starting from yesterday and it’s still displaying the first occurrence on Feb 1st.

Trying to figure out how to repair my calendar items to work around the rrule issues.

sdetweil · Jan 24, 2024, 1:55 PM

@golfyankee yes, the rrule library is broken, and has been broken in different spots for a while. ( I’ve been working on some of this for the last few years, most of the debug is mine)

for this release, we picked up a new version of the calendar parser (node ical) that shipped a new ‘fixed’ rrule… but it is worse.

when there is an rrule in a calendar event, our code calls rrule.between(), to get the set of occurrences between two dates, today, and a year from now based on the rules.

we got back junk before, and now sometimes we get a list of the correct number of events, but the date/time of some of those are empty.

I put a fix in this release to remove the empty entries because they caused the code to crash.

we never see the raw text of the ICS data, the parser converts the text to a js object

the parser doesn’t USE the rrule data. just converts it from text to a useable js object.

the parser correctly converted the text.

there is no replacement currently for the rrule library from someone else.

the older rrule and luxon work in local time.
the parser uses utc time.
the new rrule does not use luxon, and works in UTC time, so the hope was the date conversion problems would be gone.

ps we are all volunteers here, Google, Apple, and others have dedicated staff and clearly have their own code for this.

add to this fun the daylight savings nightmare that is different in different geographies, AND different over the years in the US. rrule doesn’t know DST .

rrslssr · Jan 24, 2024, 4:29 PM

@sdetweil Could this also affect a calendar module setup for iCal that is now failing to show repeating events? I noticed that my MM calendar does not show any of the repeating events currently on our iCal. I have just started troubleshooting this, but I’ll stop if it’s a know issue.

sdetweil · Jan 24, 2024, 4:31 PM

@rrslssr ICal is another problem… we don’t process iCal directly… it MUST be ics form. (I don’t know how you get it there… or what the differences are)

node-ical processes to the ICAL format spec

golfyankee · Jan 25, 2024, 4:23 PM

@sdetweil Thanks for the response and looking into this.

I’m just trying to see if you already knew the problem or point me in the right direction of where to look so I can figure out a work around.

sdetweil · Jan 25, 2024, 5:30 PM

@golfyankee go back to the prior parser

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm install node-ical@0.16.1

we know all about it, except the fix! lol