Unable to get MMM-Calendar to broadcast past events

[thecaptainzap]

I’m a new user trying to get my MagicMirror up and running. I’m running into an issue with MMM-Calendar or MMM-CalendarExt3. I’m using the “week” view and as soon as events are in the past, it won’t show any of them.

I’ve done a bit of browsing on the forum (amazing community of helpful people, BTW!) and believe I have everything aligned, including setting maximumEntries, maximumNumberOfDays, pastDaysCount, and broadcastPastEvents in MMM-calendar.

I created a test calendar to try to simplify things, and created 5 events, one on each day of the week this week. When running MagicMirror, I get a notification that Calendar-Fetcher for [FAMILY] is broadcasting 3 events, presumably today, tomorrow and Friday. See below for the 5 expected events.

Here’s my code (with personal details omitted):

	modules: [
                       		{
                       			module: "alert",
                       		},
                       		{
                       			module: "calendar",
                       			position: "top_right",
                       			maximumEntries: 10000,
                       			maximumNumberOfDays: 28,
                       			pastDaysCount: 14,
                       			maxTitleLength: 50,
                       			showLocation: false,
                       			wrapEvents: true,
                       			broadcastPastEvents: true,
                       			config: {
                       				calendars: [
                       					{
                       						//fetchInterval: 7 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000,
                       						url: "https://ics.calendarlabs.com/76/mm3137/US_Holidays.ics",
                       						name: "Holidays",
                       						color: "#7c7c7c",						
                       					},
                       					{
                       						//Family Calendar
                       						url: "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/[PRIVATE CALENDAR ADDRESS]/basic.ics",
                       						name: "Family",
                       						color: "#e7ba51",
                       					},
                       				]
                       			}
                       		},
                       		{
                       			module: "MMM-CalendarExt3",
                       			position: "top_left",
                       			title: "",
                       			config: {
                       				instanceID: "familyCalendar",
                       				mode: "week",
                       				weekIndex: 0,
                       				weeksInView: 2,
                       				maxEventLines: 5,
                       				firstDayOfWeek: 0,
                       				cellDateOptions: {month: 'long', day: 'numeric'},
                       				maxEventLines: 8,
                       				calendarSet: ['Holidays', 'Family', 'School'],
                       			}
                       		},
                       		

Here’s a screengrab of my Google Calendar and what I would expect to see in MMM-CalendarExt3:

And here’s what’s on my MagicMirror:

I’m guessing I’m missing something simple, but I just don’t see it. I appreciate everyone’s help!

[sdetweil]

@thecaptainzap
thanks… I missed something in your prior post

all of these

                       			maximumEntries: 10000,
                       			maximumNumberOfDays: 28,
                       			pastDaysCount: 14,
                       			maxTitleLength: 50,
                       			showLocation: false,
                       			wrapEvents: true,
                       			broadcastPastEvents: true,

go AFTER the

config: { 

line in the module definition in config.js
as they are parameters TO the calendar module, NOT to the MagicMirror runtime

also, this seems to be a problem

fatal: refusing to fetch into branch 'refs/heads/_fix_clipping' checked out at '/home/tim/MagicMirror'

[sdetweil]

@thecaptainzap did you put on the fix
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/19282/version-2.30.0-calendar-fix-for-clipping-broadcast-events

[thecaptainzap]

@sdetweil Thanks so much for the reply! I didn’t know about that fix and have now applied it. However, it is still only broadcasting future events. I only get the 2 events (today and tomorrow). Nothing from the 24th-26th.

I ran into the “package-lock.json” error. Removed that file, proceeded with installation. Then restarted MM. No change so rebooted the machine to feel good about myself. Ran “npm run install-mm” again after the reboot. Still no change.

Here’s the result of the 2nd install (after reboot):

tim@calendar:~$ cd ~/MagicMirror/
tim@calendar:~/MagicMirror$ git fetch origin pull/3679/head:_fix_clipping
fatal: refusing to fetch into branch 'refs/heads/_fix_clipping' checked out at '/home/tim/MagicMirror'
tim@calendar:~/MagicMirror$ git switch _fix_clipping
M       index.html
Already on '_fix_clipping'
tim@calendar:~/MagicMirror$ npm run install-mm

> magicmirror@2.31.0-develop install-mm
> npm install --no-audit --no-fund --no-update-notifier --only=prod --omit=dev


> magicmirror@2.31.0-develop postinstall
> npm run install-vendor && npm run install-fonts && echo "MagicMirror² installation finished successfully!
> "


> magicmirror@2.31.0-develop install-vendor
> echo "Installing vendor files ...
> " && cd vendor && npm install --loglevel=error --no-audit --no-fund --no-update-notifier

Installing vendor files ...


up to date in 1s

> magicmirror@2.31.0-develop install-fonts
> echo "Installing fonts ...
> " && cd fonts && npm install --loglevel=error --no-audit --no-fund --no-update-notifier

Installing fonts ...


up to date in 1s
MagicMirror² installation finished successfully!


> magicmirror@2.31.0-develop prepare
> [ -f node_modules/.bin/husky ] && husky || echo no husky installed.

no husky installed.

up to date in 13s
tim@calendar:~/MagicMirror$

I appreciate your time & feedback!

[sdetweil]

@thecaptainzap
thanks… I missed something in your prior post

all of these

                       			maximumEntries: 10000,
                       			maximumNumberOfDays: 28,
                       			pastDaysCount: 14,
                       			maxTitleLength: 50,
                       			showLocation: false,
                       			wrapEvents: true,
                       			broadcastPastEvents: true,

go AFTER the

config: { 

line in the module definition in config.js
as they are parameters TO the calendar module, NOT to the MagicMirror runtime

also, this seems to be a problem

fatal: refusing to fetch into branch 'refs/heads/_fix_clipping' checked out at '/home/tim/MagicMirror'

[thecaptainzap]

@sdetweil Thank you! I knew I was doing something silly. Moving those config settings inside the config brackets fixed my issue!!

I think the “fatal” error was because I had already run that command once, but I can’t say for certain.

Again, I appreciate your help on this!