Calendar modification

[MichMich]

https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/wiki/_new

[00conman]

@MichMich I tried the link and I just get an 404 error. If you would be so kind as to look into this or if you just want put it on the wiki yourself I’m fine with that.

[KirAsh4]

Link works for me … unless something changed between when you posted your response and now …

[garnett]

attention!
this works only if the calendar is shared to public!

[KirAsh4]

@garnett, both public and private Google calendars work. I have both displayed on mine.

[garnett]

@KirAsh4
uh yes, sorry! thats right. i was confused by the message from the google calendar.

works with private and public ;)

[aarinsingh]

Can somebody please post their config file with the maximumNumberOfDays line inserted. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong but everytime I try to adjust this I crash my config file. Everything else is working perfect.

Thanks

[MichMich]

@aarinsingh Could you copy paste your config including the maximumNumberOfDays (so I can try to find what you’re doing wrong). Don’t forget to remove sensitive data.

[brad]

Here is my info @aarinsingh , it doesn’t crash but it is also not limiting the number of days. From what I can see at a quick glance is that this was using a method that may have been replaced in the load process for this module, because it seems to only be using the default for this setting. I may follow to code later and see how this is loading and why my setting is being ignored.

{
			module: 'calendar',
			header: 'Events',
			position: 'top_left',
			maximumNumberOfDays: 7,
			config: {
				calendars: [
					{
						symbol: 'calendar-check-o ',
						url: 'https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/your-info'
					}
				]
			}
		},

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[Wilco89]

Put it after config: { and it will work

[MichMich]

maximumNumberOfDays should be part of the config object:

{
			module: 'calendar',
			header: 'Events',
			position: 'top_left',
			config: {
                                maximumNumberOfDays: 7,
				calendars: [
					{
						symbol: 'calendar-check-o ',
						url: 'https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/your-info'
					}
				]
			}
		},

[brad]

That makes perfect sense. :) sorry didn’t catch that…

[MagicCrumps1]

@KirAsh4 Weird. I had to make mine public or else the dashboard wont be able to display saying “No Events”

[KirAsh4]

@MagicCrumps1, perhaps you were using the wrong URL? There’s both a public and a private one. If you use the public URL, then you must also set your calendar to public view. But the private URL has the authentication key in it. No need to make the calendar public.

[MagicCrumps1]

@KirAsh4 Of course that worked. Thanks for the silver bullet

[00conman]

Hey guys sorry I’ve been away so I haven’t seen all these posts but I would recommend putting the calendar in monthly mode so events to disappear prematurely.

[KirAsh4]

@00conman, care to explain what you mean?

[00conman]

@KirAsh4 I keep my calendar in month mode because it makes sure that events don’t delete halfway through a day and when in month mode it prevents a glitch from occurring. In that glitch on the mirror itself events will be assigned random times, in my case the newest event would be assigned 4:00 am and then each event after that would increase by the hour to 5:00 and so on. There is also an occurrence that events will randomly delete themselves from the actual mirror, not the online calendar, so putting this in month mode will cause them to remove themselves, or stop displaying, on the mirror at 12:00 o’clock midnight the day that they were assigned. It is certainly not necessary but I would do it because it take just a few seconds.

[00conman]

To anyone wondering how to switch the calendar to month mode here is a few images.

Main calendar:
https://gyazo.com/52f994a4b33968c8a0ebe2effe349179

And where you switch it:
https://gyazo.com/81e42213091d63b75e4bb9798e01d4ac

Please note that it might not work the first time in that case either try again and reload the page or try again and go to settings and save the calendar.

[KirAsh4]

That’s something that is outside of the scope of MM itself. They don’t have anything to do with the MM calendar module itself. When you said to keep the calendar in monthly mode, my first reaction was, ‘Uh, the calendar doesn’t have a monthly view’, hence my request for clarification.

It’s helpful to others who are using that specific service to host a calendar, and trying to incorporate it into MM, but you needed to specify what you were referring to.

Thanks for the clarification.