Apply color to future events in CalendarExt3

[kkmirr04]

@sdetweil I think I might’ve just found its related to the month / week views of Ext3…

This is how I have it now:

{
			module: "calendar",
			classes: "page0",
			header: "What's Poppin'",
			position: "top_right",
			config: {
			   colored: true,
				calendars: [
					{
						name: "xx_cal",
						color: 'yellow',
						fetchInterval: 7 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000,
						symbol: "calendar-check-o",
						url: "basic.ics"
						
					},
				{
						name: "yy_cal",
						color: 'green',
						fetchInterval: 7 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000,
						symbol: "calendar-check-o",
						url: "webcal"
					},
				
				],
			    
			}
		},

When I separate them to two instances, this is the code I have:

{
			module: "calendar",
			classes: "page0",
			header: "XX Calendar'",
			position: "top_right",
			config: {
			   colored: true,
				calendars: [
					{
						name: "xx_cal",
						color: 'yellow',
						fetchInterval: 7 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000,
						symbol: "calendar-check-o",
						url: "basic.ics"
						
					},

					],
				}
			},
{
			module: "calendar",
			classes: "page0",
			header: "YY Calendar'",
			position: "top_right",
			config: {
			   colored: true,
				calendars: [
					{
					name: "yy_cal",
						color: 'green',
						fetchInterval: 7 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000,
						symbol: "calendar-check-o",
						url: "webcal"
					},
				
				],
			    
			}
		},

And without the Pages module, I do get both to load

I went to add Pages back in with the two calendar instance configuration and have EXT3 on week mode, the second calendar stream does not load

And still no color on calendar view on the second page

But then if I switch to month mode in EXT3 streams are loading in and some colors work - but there’s still two events (from the XX calendar) that loaded but did not get color applied.

As I’ve been messing with it, sometimes on the first run it will load both calendar streams when its in week mode, but it usually doesn’t load it after it runs once. Sometimes in month mode, it still doesn’t load the second calendar, so its not 100% accurate

[sdetweil]

@kkmirr04 interesting.

Also, you are using an old term , colored
We’ve update to coloredText, symbol,
There should have been a message in the console output at MagicMirror startup

pm2 logs —lines=xxx
xxx is the number of most recent lines in the output, default 15

I saw that when I was testing yesterday

When you get the not displayed, can you
Open the developers console

On the MagicMirror screen, ctrl-shift-I
Select the console tab and scroll around for errors(red text usually)

When one script has a fault in a browser, others will be impacted
Modules are all script

[kkmirr04]

@sdetweil I’ll keep messing with coloredText, so far everything is staying white when I use that. Here is the errors I’m seeing

[sdetweil]

@kkmirr04 custom.css not loaded just means there isn’t one. (The default as MagicMirror installed)
If you had used the scripted install it would have created an empty one so this error wouldn’t be there

There is the colored vs coloredText, coloredSymbol warning

No Obvious other errors in that part

Calendar sorting events=0, means there weren’t any?

Just for testing, if you disable pages and ext3
( add disabled:true, after the module:line)
Do both instances of calendar draw and with color?

If yes, then set disabled false on ext3

[kkmirr04]

@sdetweil with both disabled it did draw both instances with color

Then turning EXT3 back on I’ve got no color on any events again

[sdetweil]

@kkmirr04 that’s ext3 not showing color

In the off chance of some module install fluke
Delete the Mmm-CalendarExt3 folder
Then git clone
And npm install in the folder created by clone

Then restart MagicMirror

[kkmirr04]

@sdetweil No change unfortunately. Both event streams load fine and with color, but the calendar still is displaying everything just white, except for one event that did come with color

[sdetweil]

@kkmirr04 just for testing, if you have a mouse on that system
Mouse over the event without color and click. This will show a new view of that event with the rest in blur behind,

Does the text appear in the proper color?
Escape key to exit that view

Could you also add

coloredSymbol:true, 

To the base calendar module config.
Next to

coloredText:true

[kkmirr04]

@sdetweil clicking on the event did bring the color in on that new view

It didn’t seem like the coloredSymbol and coloredText had an effect, but not sure if I put them in the right spot? Should I remove the old colored:true, value?

{
			module: "calendar",
			disabled:false,
			coloredSymbol:true,
			coloredText:true,
			classes: "page0",
			header: "XX Calendar'",
			position: "top_right",
			config: {
			   colored: true,
				calendars: [
					{
						name: "xx_cal",
						color: 'yellow',
						fetchInterval: 7 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000,
						symbol: "calendar-check-o",
						url: "https:basic.ics"
	


			module: "calendar",
			classes: "page0",
			coloredSymbol:true,
			coloredText:true,
			header: "YY Calendar'",
			position: "top_right",
			config: {
			   colored: true,
				calendars: [
					{
					name: "yy_cal",
						color: 'green',
						fetchInterval: 7 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000,
						symbol: "calendar-check-o",
						url: "webcal:
			

[sdetweil]

@kkmirr04 they replace the colored:true which did everything,
Now you can control each separately

Inside the config: { section
Before the calendars: [ list

[kkmirr04]

@sdetweil Still the same results with the coloredSymbol and coloredText unfortunately

[sdetweil]

@kkmirr04

@kristjanesperanto can you help here? Seems ext3 is having trouble with color….

[KristjanESPERANTO]

@kkmirr04 Does it work when you add this to your custom.css?

.CX3 .event.singleday .headline .title,
.CX3 .event.singleday .headline .time {
  color: var(--calendarColor);
}

[kkmirr04]

@KristjanESPERANTO So I really don’t know anything about modifying CSS , I can’t locate a custom.css file . Would that be in /magicmirror/CSS or MagicMirror/modules/MMM-CalendarExt3 folders? And where in those respective files should it be placed - just at the top or bottom?

Sorry, I’m not a programmer by any stretch, just a hobbyist trying to figure it out

[sdetweil]

@kkmirr04 in 2.36 custom.css would be located in the config folder. Before that in the css folder

If you had used my installer script it would have created an empty file for you.

Editing custom.css is just like editing config.js

Just a file of text

[sdetweil]

@KristjanESPERANTO that changed the results for me… now have color

[sdetweil]

@KristjanESPERANTO but how does that work for multiple calendars with different colors with events on the same month display

[KristjanESPERANTO]

@sdetweil CX3 should use each event’s source-calendar color even when multiple calendars are shown together in the same month view. Does it work with multiple calendars?

[sdetweil]

@KristjanESPERANTO it does work with multiple cals with different colors…

this used to be default behavior, did the module css get changed?

[kkmirr04]

@sdetweil This fixed it for me, both calendar event streams are pulling in colors and even across all ‘modes’ of EXT3 now. (month, week, day) and its extending out to all events I can see on the calendar.

Thank you both so much for all of the help on this, my two way glass just arrived so timing couldn’t be better!

Thanks!!!