Calendar module won't show all events

[gama]

The default calendar module connects to my iCloud calendars fine, but won’t show all events. I switched to MMM-CalendarExt and it shows perfectly.
After the recent update of MagicMirror, MMM-CalendarExt won’t display on screen at all. I just need one of them to work properly. Any ideas?

[Hein-Jan]

@gama

Look into issue:

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/5071/mmm-calendarext-cant-get-the-calendar-to-show

It is a problem of Electron that has been downgraded.

The default calendar module has had some issues removed in the update, maybe it is now okay for you.

[gama]

This is what I found out.

Here’s the code at that location:

addCalendars: async function() {
    var self = this
    for (var c in this.CurrentConfigs.calendars) {
      self.addCalendar(self.CurrentConfigs.getCalConfig(c))
      await sleep(1000)
    }
  },

Could it be that the error is within the core programming of the module?

[ninjabreadman]

I’ve had the same problem since upgrading to MagicMirror 2.2.0.

It seems that Node.js is upset that MMM-CalendarExt uses an async function at MMM-CalendarExt.js:182. From what I can tell, Node.js didn’t support async until 7.4, and I’m (apparently) running 6.12.2 (via node -v). However, until I upgraded MagicMirror this weekend, MMM-CalendarExt was working fine.

I just edited run-start.sh:4 to the following, and just got MMM-CalendarExt working again:

electron --js-flags="--harmony-async-await" js/electron.js $1

Can someone explain why upgrading to MagicMirror 2.2.0 would’ve rolled back the Node.js support for async?

[gama]

@ninjabreadman

Nice. Thanks for the workaround! It’s working now.

[Daveladd]

@ninjabreadman
Slick fix, Well done. Think this should get pushed to the master branch? Does not seem it will get in the way of other functionality/stability since we can still use the lower electron version but obviously the workaround means updates involve stashing changes and such.

[A Former User]

@ninjabreadman said in Calendar module won’t show all events:

I just edited run-start.sh:4 to the following, and just got MMM-CalendarExt working again:
electron --js-flags=“–harmony-async-await” js/electron.js $1

It’s a great fix for this issue. Anyway, I’m almost finishing my vacation and my current business a few days. I should have to join the summit for business in mid of January in Seoul and Paris. After that, I will release fix of this issue.