MMM-CalendarExt2 - I want to change the first day of the week, but weekStart setting is not having an effect

eprostko

For the last few weeks, my calendar weeks have been starting on Monday, rather than Sunday (I’m in the US). It used to show Sun-Sat, but now it’s Mon-Sun.

I found the weekStart: 0 setting, but it’s not having any effect.
I set the locale: en-US.
I tried setting the mode: “week” and type: “row” and weekStart: 0 or 3 or 5 just to see what it would do, and it had no effect.
I set type: “weekly” and it did change the first day to Sunday, each week was a column, not a row.

The blocks from my config are below. Can anyone help?

{
module: ‘MMM-CalendarExt2’,
config: {
locale: “en-US”,
weekStart: 0,
calendars: [

Under views, here’s what I have
views: [
{
position: “top_bar”,
mode: “week”,
type: “row”,
slotMaxHeight: “150px”,
slotCount: 3,
hideOverflow: false,
slotTitle: “”,
slotTitleFormat: “dddd, M/D”,
timeFormat: “h:mm”,
slotSubTitle: " ",
modeOptions: {
weekStart: 0, // Sunday-first
},
},

KristjanESPERANTO

@eprostko The issue is that modeOptions is not a valid configuration field in MMM-CalenderExt2. Where did you get that?

weekStart needs to be set directly inside the view object:

views: [
  {
    position: "top_bar",
    mode: "week",
    type: "row",
    weekStart: 0,        // ← here, at the top level of the view
    slotMaxHeight: "150px",
    slotCount: 3,
    // ...
  }
]

The top-level weekStart: 0 in your config has no effect either - there’s no such top-level option, only the per-view (or defaultSet.view) one.

KristjanESPERANTO

@eprostko And it would be great if you could format your code snippets a bit more clearly in the future like proper indentation and quotation marks. The way you wrote the config part is really hard to read and analyze 🙂

eprostko

@KristjanESPERANTO Thank you so much! That worked. I thought I tried it that way in one of my many attempts, but clearly I didn’t.

Where did that modeOptions thing come from? ChatGPT. It gave me quite a few wrong answers. Some days I have great luck with it and other days I do not.

And I will be sure to format my config the next time I need some help. Thanks for pointing that out.

Again, thanks for the help, and have a wonderful day!

KristjanESPERANTO

@eprostko I’m glad it’s working. The configuration of MMM-CalendarExt2 and the documentation are quite complex, so I completely understand if you’re having a hard time with it.

Have fun with your project 😃