**N00B** Question

[Landokirk]

Hopping on this bandwagon. My family is currently using Google Calendar to track family events and my wife wants a wall display to be able to see these events easier than on her phone. Her initial thought was the Skylight, but I want to try the DIY route before having to spend that kind of money. The features that she wants are:

Touch screen to be able to click on the event and get more information.

Full Screen Calendar. She doesn’t care about the time, grocery lists, chores, etc (for now)

When viewing the calendar to be able to see the full title of the event

With that in mind, what module(s) best fit what I’m trying to do? Or, maybe a dumb idea, what about a web browser in Kiosk mode looking at the Google Calendar?

Thank you in advance!

[Landokirk]

@sdetweil Thank you for that! Ok so taking Touch out of the equation, how do I do this? I know I need to adjust the config.js file and “remove” the other modules that are present and only present the Ext3 module, but to do that do I use mode:hidden or do I comment out the position? Also, how do I get this shared Google Calendar in there? Which of the URLs am I supposed to use? Do I need to do the whole API thing?

Thank you again for your help!

[_V_]

Hey @Landokirk

I am also new here and just get stuff done so far.
The Raspberry route is definitely the one to recommend - you cant beat the low cost factor.

Unfortunately I cant tell you anything about touch, since I went non touch.
Full screen calender is no problem at all, just remember you start with a basic calender which youd have to format/style, if you also want the Google appearance. In the module calendarEXT3 there is a marquee function, so that longer event titles just scroll through to make em readable completely.

I was thinking about a browser view too, but felt that this was just “not enough”, not special enough. There are also different apps people offer to achieve the same thing like MagicMirror ( but its easier to set up in this case), but usually theyre paid at some point.

If youre only after calender, this could lead to ( if you take default apps out of the config ) almost the complete screen free for it. Based on that, you still have to figure out how big of a screen is needed for your “eyes”. ^^

[sdetweil]

@_V_ if you are going to use Ext3 for the wall calendar display, then you can hide the default (and no styling required…)

just comment out its
position:
setting in config.js
//position

then it won’t show, but still provide events to other modules (Like Ext3)

[sdetweil]

@Landokirk Ext3 provides a wall calendar view…
‘see full title’… well, depends on how long it is… if you divide the screen into 7 day cells left to right,
you only get 1/7 of the space (minus overhead, borders, cell boundaries…) … for me personally an event title that wraps is UGLY…

Ext3 provides a popup on an event, not edit, just view

MM doesn’t provide any native touch support, as its designed as output info display panel
some modules provide limited touch (like carousel and page allow you to touch button to get to other module views (logical pages)

MM can only show or hide modules… so a page is a group of modules shown together while others are not shown

[Landokirk]

@sdetweil Thank you for that! Ok so taking Touch out of the equation, how do I do this? I know I need to adjust the config.js file and “remove” the other modules that are present and only present the Ext3 module, but to do that do I use mode:hidden or do I comment out the position? Also, how do I get this shared Google Calendar in there? Which of the URLs am I supposed to use? Do I need to do the whole API thing?

Thank you again for your help!

[sdetweil]

@Landokirk any module you dont need, just add

disabled:true,

after the

module:

line

for the google calendar, use the desktop to go to calendar.google.com

hover the mouse pointer over the calendar name in the left nav
3 dots will appear to the right, click and pick settings
scroll down to sharing, and locate the ical
url, or secret

that is the string used in the default calendar url: setting

then for EXT3 you install that module

if you use my MMM-Config module, it will provide a form based approach to system and module configuration, and also supports module install.