2.32.0 Calendar module limitDays and excludedEvents stopped working

[sdetweil]

@AndyHazz note that the excluded events is an ARRAY (so for loop to look thru them )
test ALL til find one that is true (CalendarFetcherUtils.titleFilterApplies returns true) , or not

AND the item in the array can be an object with more specific controls, or a string

MM doc entries on separate lines

[
'Birthday',     // text 
'Hide This Event',    // text 
{filterBy: 'Payment', until: '6 days', caseSensitive: true},  // complex, but text
{filterBy: '^[0-9]{1,}.*', regex: true} // complex, uses regex
]

AND the list/array can be a MIX of those things,

and the string test is the test string is SOMEWHERE in the title, doesn’t have to BE the entire title

[AndyHazz]

@sdetweil fair enough, complexity no doubt warranted!

Perhaps is there any reason why shouldEventBeExcluded function might not be getting called at all for me? I’m stumped why after making all these changes including console.log messages, nothing is appearing any different -

[sdetweil]

@AndyHazz can’t think of any, MM is case sensitive, some times people get the case wrong and we don’t report unexpected parms or missing parms…

but you’ve been using that so, it doesn’t shouldn’t be an issue for you

[sdetweil]

@AndyHazz I copied your post in exactly, i reverted back to 2.32 original first

and got the right debug and results

[2025-07-09 16:27:38.473] [DEBUG] Processing entry…
[2025-07-09 16:27:38.473] [DEBUG] title: Dad’s Birthday
[2025-07-09 16:27:38.473] [LOG] should be excluded dad’s birthday birthday false g
[2025-07-09 16:27:38.473] [LOG] event should be excluded = true, dad’s birthday
[2025-07-09 16:27:38.473] [LOG] filter applies result = { excluded: true, until: null }
[2025-07-09 16:27:38.473] [LOG] filter applies returning = { excluded: true, until: null }

[sdetweil]

@AndyHazz and

the fetcherutils processes this exclude list very early after getting the events parsed

                // loop thru the parsed data, one event at a time
		Object.entries(data).forEach(([key, event]) => {
			Log.debug("Processing entry...");

			const title = CalendarFetcherUtils.getTitleFromEvent(event);
			Log.debug(`title: ${title}`);

			// Return quickly if event should be excluded.
			let { excluded, eventFilterUntil } = this.shouldEventBeExcluded(config, title);
			if (excluded) {
				return;
			}

[AndyHazz]

@sdetweil should I see a console message from loader.js about calendarfetcherutils.js being loaded?

I see

Load script: modules/default/calendar/calendar.js
Load script: modules/default/calendar/calendarutils.js

but no mention in the console of calendarfetcherutils.js

[sdetweil]

@AndyHazz no.

[AndyHazz]

@sdetweil I’ve no idea then, but if you were able to reproduce the issue I had, and then fix it on your end, I probably just messed something up somewhere and without any access to logs on my docker setup that may remain a mystery … I’ve just had another go at trying to figure out what that may be, no luck.

No rush at all but I guess if you’re happy with the fix it’ll show up in a new MM version at some point and I’ll update to that.

[sdetweil]

@AndyHazz next release isn’t til Oct 1

[sdetweil]

@AndyHazz weird…

[sdetweil]

@AndyHazz would you be willing to test another implementation of the limitDays code fix

another author has changed the code quite a bit,
copy the existing calendar.js so not losing what you have
new code

		if (this.config.limitDays > 0 && events.length>0) {   // line 708
			// Group all events by date, events on the same date will be in a list with the key being the date.
			Log.info("limitdays starting, events list length=", events.length)
			const eventsByDate = Object.groupBy(events, (ev) => this.timestampToMoment(ev.startDate).format("YYYY-MM-DD"));
			Log.info("eventsByDate keys=",Object.keys(eventsByDate))
			const newEvents = [];
			let currentDate = moment().subtract(1,'days');
			let daysCollected = 0;

			while (daysCollected < this.config.limitDays) {
				const dateStr = currentDate.format("YYYY-MM-DD");
				Log.info("limitDays checking=",dateStr)
				// Check if there are events on the currentDate
				if (eventsByDate[dateStr])
					Log.info("eventsByDate[",dateStr,"] length=",eventsByDate[dateStr].length)
				if (eventsByDate[dateStr] && eventsByDate[dateStr].length > 0) {
					// If there are any events today then get all those events and select the currently active events and the events that are starting later in the day.
					newEvents.push(...eventsByDate[dateStr].filter((ev) => this.timestampToMoment(ev.endDate).isAfter(moment())));
					// Since we found a day with events, increase the daysCollected by 1
					daysCollected++;
					Log.info("limitDays, found day with events, count=",daysCollected)
				}
			        // Search for the next day
				currentDate.add(1, "day");
			}
			Log.info("limitDays done")
			events = newEvents;
		}

this line is unchanged after replacing above code

		Log.info(`slicing events total maxcount=${this.config.maximumEntries}`);  // this line is unchanged

[AndyHazz]

@sdetweil no problem, that new code seems to work fine for me.

However, I don’t seem to have a great setup for testing - after making the changes, I can load up MM in my remote/laptop browser and immediately see the changes working, but if I try and refresh the electron browser on the raspberry pi running my mirror (using MMM-Remote-Control), it seems to take ages, crash, and then reverts the code back to the docker image default 😮‍💨

I can see this in the docker container logs so I reckon it’s reverting any changes I make there?

[entrypoint 18:36:04.283] [INFO]   copy default modules
[entrypoint 18:36:04.918] [INFO]   copy css files
> magicmirror@2.32.0 start
> node --run start:x11

[karsten13]

@AndyHazz said in 2.32.0 Calendar module limitDays and excludedEvents stopped working:

I can see this in the docker container logs so I reckon it’s reverting any changes I make there?

yes it overrides the default modules but you can change this behavior

[AndyHazz]

@karsten13 aha, good to know, although I already started and now finished setting up from scratch again 🙄 no docker this time … I kept it on a spare sd card though so may switch back.

@sdetweil new code for limitDays reapplied on a fresh install, still seems fine. Previous suggestions to fix the excludedEvents still not working though.

[AndyHazz]

said in 2.32.0 Calendar module limitDays and excludedEvents stopped working:

Previous suggestions to fix the excludedEvents still not working though.

@sdetweil hold up - it’s all working now! I don’t think I changed anything else, just an extra refresh. So, all your fixes are good. Sorry that took a while to figure out, and if I’d read @karsten13’s docker instructions properly I think that docker module override feature was probably the cause of earlier confusion.

[sdetweil]

@AndyHazz thanks for the feedback and extra effort

[sdetweil]

@AndyHazz these fixes are in the next release Oct 1