I wish there was a module that would show local events...

cowboysdude

That would be cool to have a module that would show events in or close to your living area!!!

joela85

That’s a good idea, quick thought…
Can’t you do this using the calendar or news module?

I had a quick search at local events in my area and found two different websites in my local area with key events.

One website you could export all the events into a your own google calendar or ical. you could then tailor these to show up in a different colour or start with a different heading?

The other website had their events under and RS feed and you could show the RSS feed up on the news module?

Do you have something like that for your area?

cowboysdude

@joela85 great ideas :)

But…

https://github.com/mykle1/MMM-Events

:)

joela85

That looks spot on. I think I’ll be adding that module later.
Requesting an API key, what do you put in the “Application URL” box etc

Mykle1

@joela85 said in I wish there was a module that would show local events...:

Requesting an API key, what do you put in the “Application URL” box etc

You can just use the url of this forum.

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/

Mykle1

@cowboysdude said in I wish there was a module that would show local events...:

https://github.com/mykle1/MMM-Events

Oh, no you d’int! You old some beach! ;-)

Well, seeing as you wished for it, and seeing as you forced my hand, here it is.

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/2628/mmm-events

Mykle1

Shameless plug.

cowboysdude

@Mykle1 said in I wish there was a module that would show local events...:

Shameless plug.

NO such thing… LOL

joela85

Tried to get this working, only showing “Upcoming Events…” text on the mirror.

This is my config, can you see why it might not be loading any events?

 {
                    module: 'MMM-Events',
                    position: 'bottom_left',
                    config: {
                        city: "Leamington Spa, United Kingdom",            // Your City
                        eventType: "music, comedy, performing_arts, sports, food, food_beer, outdoors_recreation",                 // Choose from Events List below
                        when: "Future",                 // "All", "Future", "Past", "Today", "Last Week", "This Week", "Next week", and months by name, e.g. "October"
                        mode: "noFrame",                   // "Frame" or "noFrame" (around picture)
                        apikey: "verified_api",
                        rotateInterval: 2 * 60 * 1000,     // New Event Appears every 2 minutes
                        useHeader: false,                  // Set to true if you want a header
                        header: "",
                        animationSpeed: 3000,              // Event fades in and out
                        picture: true,                     // true, false = no image
                    }
...

Mykle1

{
                    module: 'MMM-Events',
                    position: 'top_left',
                    config: {
                        city: "Leamington, England",            // Your City
                        eventType: "music",                 // Choose from Events List below
                        when: "Future",                 // "All", "Future", "Past", "Today", "Last Week", "This Week", "Next week", and months by name, e.g. "October"
                        mode: "noFrame",                   // "Frame" or "noFrame" (around picture)
                        apikey: "YOUR API KEY",
                        rotateInterval: 2 * 60 * 1000,     // New Event Appears every 2 minutes
                        useHeader: false,                  // Set to true if you want a header
                        header: "",
                        animationSpeed: 3000,              // Event fades in and out
                        picture: true,                     // true, false = no image
                    }
		},

This will work. More info to follow shortly . . .

Mykle1

You can only choose one eventType at a time. I’ll look into multiple entries when I have the time to do so. With Leamington as your city, there is limited data from the API, especially the pictures. If you choose a larger city nearby, say Birmingham, you will have much better results, as the data is more prevalent.

Leamington does return events, but if you don’t like the fallback picture appearing so often (it does that when the API returns no picture) you can choose picture: false, in the config.

Please let me know how you like the module.

Mykle1

@joela85 said in I wish there was a module that would show local events...:

This is my config, can you see why it might not be loading any events?

The above two posts should get you up and running

Mykle1

@joela85
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As you can see, the data from the API for Leamington uses the fallback picture quite often

joela85

Ah, that’s great thanks. I was wondering if multiple events were causing that. It would be great to have a few multiple event types. Ye, there aren’t many events in Leamington itself. Can you put a distance radius around your home post code?
Thank you for your help, great little module.

joela85

Is there also a way to show the date of the event in dd-mm-yy format? instead of yyyy-dd-mm?

cowboysdude

@joela85 LOL I’m looking at the pictures I’m not seeing it as yyyy-dd-mm… I"m seeing mm/dd/yyyy.

Mykle1

@joela85 said in I wish there was a module that would show local events...:

Is there also a way to show the date of the event in dd-mm-yy format? instead of yyyy-dd-mm?

I don’t have any plans to reformat the date. If I change it then undoubtedly, someone will want it the way it was.

. It would be great to have a few multiple event types.

I’ll get back to you on that. I don’t even think it will require editing the module.

Ye, there aren’t many events in Leamington itself. Can >you put a distance radius around your home post code?

Not at the moment. Cities are the best route right now. If you want to extend a radius around your post code then you can just choose the nearest major city.

Thank you for your help, great little module.

You’re welcome, and thank you.

Mykle1

@joela85 said in I wish there was a module that would show local events...:

It would be great to have a few multiple event types.

Ok, so, your config entry for eventType was not incorrect. You had it formatted correctly, categories separated by commas, all within a single pair of quotes.

eventType: "music, comedy, performing_arts, sports, food, food_beer, outdoors_recreation",

Caveat: The module GET’s 50 events per updateInterval. If the first category in eventType has 50 or more events, you may never see the secondary categories appear. The module does not, for example, GET 10 events from each of the categories.

joela85

Ah ok, so could put them in preference order then. My dates now appear in dd-mm-yyyy format. Could be doing that on location basis.