Calendar issue - Private work calendar

trev125 · Jan 3, 2021, 11:53 PM

I have seen some other posts here with a similar issue, but nothing quite like what I am facing. The odd thing is this seemed to have broken recently, as it was working just a few days ago…

The company I work for makes our calendars private, and that’s fine with me, all I want to show on my MM is the “Busy” subject for when I have meetings (will make it easier for my wife to know when I am in a meeting or when I am not)

These are the settings of the calendar:

I am trying to use the basic.ics one at the bottom of that second image, but its not pulling in any of the data.

Things I have tried:

running curl -L https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/********************/public/basic.ics on my computer and my raspberry pi (both are pulling in the data correctly as far as I can tell)
I am getting data like this back:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20201105T200000Z
DTEND:20201105T210000Z
UID:*********@google.com
ATTENDEE;X-NUM-GUESTS=0:mailto:**************
SUMMARY:Busy
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

I have manually typed in the /basic.ics url into Chromium on my Raspberry Pi and it downloads it properly too
I have manually added this calendar yo my personal google account and it pulls it in properly

Any other recommendations would be much appreciated!

sdetweil · Jan 4, 2021, 3:12 AM

@trev125 said in Calendar issue - Private work calendar:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20201105T200000Z
DTEND:20201105T210000Z
UID:@google.com
ATTENDEE;X-NUM-GUESTS=0:mailto:*****
SUMMARY:Busy
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

well, THAT event is november 5th

we don’t display events in the past

I changed the date, but because it has no timezone associated (only UTC start/stop)
my TZ is used, and its STILL in the past
Sun Jan 03 2021 14:00:00 GMT-0600

if I make it jan 4, at 20:00 UTC it shows and says in 20 hours, as its 6 pm (18:00) here and the appt says 2 pm (14:00)

sdetweil · Jan 4, 2021, 2:27 AM

I made a lot of changes to calendar this last 3 months to get it right.

u could email me the ics file, its text, sanitize anything u need to.

my email in my same userid here at gmail

trev125 · Jan 4, 2021, 3:15 AM

@sdetweil said in Calendar issue - Private work calendar:

@trev125 said in Calendar issue - Private work calendar:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20201105T200000Z
DTEND:20201105T210000Z
UID:@google.com
ATTENDEE;X-NUM-GUESTS=0:mailto:*****
SUMMARY:Busy
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

well, THAT event is november 5th

we don’t display events in the past

I changed the date, but because it has no timezone associated (only UTC start/stop)
my TZ is used, and its STILL in the past
Sun Jan 03 2021 14:00:00 GMT-0600

if I make it jan 4, at 20:00 UTC it shows and says in 20 hours, as its 6 pm (18:00) here and the appt says 2 pm (14:00)

Youre right, I put in the oldest one instead of the newest, I didnt realize the .ics was in that order. It looks like I have appointments ranging from 2020 to 2022. One that should be valid is this (I added the header and footer of the .ics to this to make it more clear):

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Google Inc//Google Calendar 70.9054//EN
VERSION:2.0
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:******
X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Denver
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20210104T220000Z
DTEND:20210104T225000Z
DTSTAMP:20210103T224853Z
UID:**********@google.com
ATTENDEE;X-NUM-GUESTS=0:mailto:*********
RECURRENCE-ID:20210104T220000Z
SUMMARY:Busy
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

And its still not showing up in my calendar

sdetweil · Jan 4, 2021, 3:18 AM

@trev125 ok, shows on mine… what mm version are u on?

grep version ~/MagicMirror/package.json

trev125 · Jan 4, 2021, 3:33 AM

@sdetweil “version”: “2.14.0”,

sdetweil · Jan 4, 2021, 3:51 AM

@trev125 ok, change config.js

add

	logLevel: ["INFO", "LOG", "WARN", "ERROR","DEBUG"],

if its already there, add “DEBUG”

then restart MM

If you are using pm2, the
pm2 flush
pm2 restart 0

this is what I see for the latest event u posted, i set my timezone to yours

[03.01.2021 20:35.36.727] [DEBUG]  parsed data={"**********@google.com":{"type":"VEVENT","params":[],"start":"2021-01-04T22:00:00.000Z","datetype":"date-time","end":"2021-01-04T22:50:00.000Z","dtstamp":"2021-01-03T22:48:53.000Z","uid":"**********@google.com","attendee":{"params":{"X-NUM-GUESTS":0},"val":"mailto:*********"},"recurrenceid":"2021-01-04T22:00:00.000Z","summary":"Busy","recurrences":{"2021-01-04":{"type":"VEVENT","params":[],"start":"2021-01-04T22:00:00.000Z","datetype":"date-time","end":"2021-01-04T22:50:00.000Z","dtstamp":"2021-01-03T22:48:53.000Z","uid":"**********@google.com","attendee":{"params":{"X-NUM-GUESTS":0},"val":"mailto:*********"},"recurrenceid":"2021-01-04T22:00:00.000Z","summary":"Busy"}}}}
[03.01.2021 20:35.36.727] [DEBUG] there are 1 calendar entries
[03.01.2021 20:35.36.729] [DEBUG] have entries 
[03.01.2021 20:35.36.730] [DEBUG] 
event={"type":"VEVENT","params":[],"start":"2021-01-04T22:00:00.000Z","datetype":"date-time","end":"2021-01-04T22:50:00.000Z","dtstamp":"2021-01-03T22:48:53.000Z","uid":"**********@google.com","attendee":{"params":{"X-NUM-GUESTS":0},"val":"mailto:*********"},"recurrenceid":"2021-01-04T22:00:00.000Z","summary":"Busy","recurrences":{"2021-01-04":{"type":"VEVENT","params":[],"start":"2021-01-04T22:00:00.000Z","datetype":"date-time","end":"2021-01-04T22:50:00.000Z","dtstamp":"2021-01-03T22:48:53.000Z","uid":"**********@google.com","attendee":{"params":{"X-NUM-GUESTS":0},"val":"mailto:*********"},"recurrenceid":"2021-01-04T22:00:00.000Z","summary":"Busy"}}}
[03.01.2021 20:35.36.730] [DEBUG]  start=Mon Jan 04 2021 15:00:00 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time) end=Mon Jan 04 2021 15:50:00 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)
[03.01.2021 20:35.36.730] [DEBUG]  if no tz, guess based on now
[03.01.2021 20:35.36.742] [DEBUG] initial tz=America/Denver
[03.01.2021 20:35.36.743] [DEBUG] corrected tz=America/Denver
[03.01.2021 20:35.36.743] [DEBUG] start date/time=Mon Jan 04 2021 15:00:00 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)
[03.01.2021 20:35.36.744] [DEBUG] start offset=-420
[03.01.2021 20:35.36.745] [DEBUG] start date/time w tz =Mon Jan 04 2021 15:00:00 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)
[03.01.2021 20:35.36.745] [DEBUG] event date=Mon Jan 04 2021 15:00:00 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)
[03.01.2021 20:35.36.745] [DEBUG] event offset=-420 hour=15 event date=Mon Jan 04 2021 15:00:00 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)
[03.01.2021 20:35.36.745] [DEBUG] adjustHours=0
[03.01.2021 20:35.36.746] [INFO]  Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 1 events.

also, can u show the calendar config entry, not the url

u would see this data in the pm2 logs

using command

pm2 logs --lines=100

trev125 · Jan 4, 2021, 3:53 AM

@sdetweil Thanks for the quick responses. It looks like the calendar that I am pulling in has around 600 events, if that is anything.

Because of that, it makes it hard to read the debugger, but I did see this:

"2021-01-05":{"type":"VEVENT","params":[],"start":"2021-01-05T17:00:00.000Z","datetype":"date-time","end":"2021-01-05T17:25:00.000Z","dtstamp":"2021-01-04T03:46:12.000Z","uid":"*******@google.com","attendee":{"params":{"X-NUM-GUESTS":0},"val":"mailto:******"},"recurrenceid":"2021-01-05T17:00:00.000Z","summary":"Busy"},

Then I have some things like this, but I dont notice any of them for any dates coming up soon:

[03.01.2021 20:46.13.274] [DEBUG]  start=Tue Jan 03 2023 10:00:00 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time) end=Tue Jan 03 2023 10:25:00 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)
[03.01.2021 20:46.13.274] [DEBUG] have entries

Also: here is my calendar config:

		{
			module: "calendar",
			header: "Calendar",
			position: "top_bar",
			maximumEntries: 80,
			config: {
				calendars: [
					{
						symbol: "calendar-check",
						url: "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/******/public/basic.ics"					
					}
				]
			}
		},

I can edit and send you the .ics if that would be helpful, I can sanitize it

sdetweil · Jan 4, 2021, 3:55 AM

@trev125 yes, please, the sanitized ics would be awesome…
I won’t get to it til tomorrow tho

sdetweil · Jan 4, 2021, 2:15 PM

@trev125 i got it and sent u an email back