Magic Mirror Dynamic Calendar and Pirate Sky Forecast Questions

[miriamburrell]

Hello,
I know there have been a lot of questions about dynamic calendars, but I wanted to ask again based on what I’ve found. From my research, it seems like MagicMirror usually functions only as a display and doesn’t natively support input (even with some third-party modules). Has anyone managed to set up a system where you can add events directly to Google Calendar?

Also, I’m trying to get my weather forecast to display horizontally across the week instead of vertically. I’m currently using the Pirate Sky Forecast module (which I really like), but it only seems to support a vertical layout. Does anyone have suggestions for achieving a horizontal view? I’d prefer to avoid paying for an API key, so I’m open to alternatives that fit that requirement.

[sdetweil]

@miriamburrell there was a user who created a modified ext3 wall calendar to add entries to a calendar.
He never published his module

Weather uses the njk templates to create the web content

You could create a new version of forecast.njk to change the layout. Not something you can do w css

[miriamburrell]

Thanks for your suggestion.

[sdetweil]

@miriamburrell a place to start is the browser developers window, elements tab

You can copy/paste the module generated html
And work on how you might want it to be for your layout requirements

Make a small html file to load and test

Then adjust/rewrite the njk to match it
AI might be able to help with that

[OliWer]

Something like this?:

left hourly and right daily forecast, using openweathermap as API provider, but that should not make a difference.

Is this something that could be build into the default module? I’m currently testing it with a configurable layout option and could provide my changes if that makes sense.

[sdetweil]

@OliWer possibly. You are the first to want this kind of layout.

You could submit a pr and see what happens.

[karsten13]

@OliWer said:

Is this something that could be build into the default module?

we introduced Themes for this use case with the lastest mm release