I Broke the default Calendar Module

[OlesonCrypto]

I just had my calendars working smh. I added 4 of my apple calendars and it was working well for the most part. It would turn on for a while and then flash with: “Error in the calendar module, Check logs for more details”. I checked the logs with tail -n 50 ~/.pm2/logs/MagicMirror-error.log and the other logs with nothing out of the ordinary. I was trying to fix the issue in the ~/MagicMirror/modules/default/calendar/calendar.js then it broke completely. Now it just shows that error message indefinitely. I deleted that calendar.js file and then copied the file back in. Now it just doesn’t work at all again still. Below is a copy of my codes with the private info redacted:

~/MagicMirror/config/config.js

{
	module: "calendar",
        header: "My Schedule",
        position: "middle_center",
        config: { // symbols @ https://fontawesome.com/v5.15/icons?d=gallery&p=2&m=free
        calendars: [
        	{
                	symbol: "laptop-code", // College Courses
                        url: "webcal://p47-caldav.icloud.com/published/2/****",
                        fetchInterval: 6000,
                        color: "#698152" // Using hex coloring. Identify color of choice using @ https://imagecolorpicker.com/color-code/4b92b3
                },
                {
                        symbol: "file-alt", // College Assignments Due
                        url: "webcal://p47-caldav.icloud.com/published/2/****",
                        fetchInterval: 6000,
                        color: "#C4CACE"
                },
                {
                        symbol: "users", // Work Schedule
                        url: "webcal://p47-caldav.icloud.com/published/2/****",
                        fetchInterval: 6000,
                        color: "#E43D4E"
                },
                {
                        symbol: "home", // Home / Family Events
                        url: "webcal://p47-caldav.icloud.com/published/2/****",
                        fetchInterval: 6000,
                        color: "#219DF3"
                },
        	]
	}
},

~/MagicMirror/modules/default/calendar/calendar.js

• I tried to add all 4 calendars in with just the symbol and URL, didn’t work, tried leaving it as default, didn’t work.

/* global cloneObject */

/* Magic Mirror
 * Module: Calendar
 *
 * By Michael Teeuw https://michaelteeuw.nl
 * MIT Licensed.
 */
Module.register("calendar", {
        // Define module defaults
        defaults: {
                maximumEntries: 10, // Total Maximum Entries
                maximumNumberOfDays: 365,
                limitDays: 7, // Limit the number of days shown, 0 = no limit
                displaySymbol: true,
                defaultSymbol: "calendar", // Fontawesome Symbol see https://fontawesome.com/cheatsheet?from=io
                showLocation: false,
                displayRepeatingCountTitle: false,
                defaultRepeatingCountTitle: "",
                maxTitleLength: 50,
                maxLocationTitleLength: 50,
                wrapEvents: false, // wrap events to multiple lines breaking at maxTitleLength
                wrapLocationEvents: false,
                maxTitleLines: 3,
                maxEventTitleLines: 3,
                fetchInterval: 6000, // Update every 5 minutes.
                animationSpeed: 1000,
                fade: false,
                urgency: 7,
                timeFormat: "relative",
                dateFormat: "MMM Do",
                dateEndFormat: "LT",
                fullDayEventDateFormat: "MMM Do",
                showEnd: false,
                getRelative: 6,
                fadePoint: 0, // Start on 1/4th of the list.
                hidePrivate: false,
                hideOngoing: false,
                hideTime: false,
                colored: true,
                coloredSymbolOnly: true,
                customEvents: [], // Array of {keyword: "", symbol: "", color: ""} where Keyword is a regexp and symbol/color are to be applied for matched
                tableClass: "small",
                calendars: [
                        {
                                symbol: "calendar",
                                url: "https://www.calendarlabs.com/templates/ical/US-Holidays.ics"
                        }

                        ],
                titleReplace: {
                        "De verjaardag van ": "",
                        "'s birthday": ""
                },
                locationTitleReplace: {
                        "street ": ""
                },
                broadcastEvents: true,
                excludedEvents: [],
                sliceMultiDayEvents: false,
                broadcastPastEvents: false,
                nextDaysRelative: false,
                selfSignedCert: false

[sdetweil]

@olesoncrypto 1st… NEVER edit the source code

always use config.js

if u HAVE edited the source code and want it back then , in the MM folder do

git checkout modules/default/calendar/calendar.js

to restore the file from the source code repository

this should make the default work again (if u restored that section of the config.js from config.js.sample)

so, now we need to understand why 4 cals don’t work.,

1st test

take each URL from each cal entry, one by one
in a browser ON the MM system and
see if the url downloads an ics file … this is required for the cal module to work

if not, fix that

then try with your config.js, which looks ok.

if not working, add

,"DEBUG" 

to the end of

logLevel: ["INFO", "LOG", "WARN", "ERROR"], // Add "DEBUG" for even more logging

and start MM like this (make sure to stop any previous running mm, if pm2, then pm2 stop all

npm start  >somefile.txt

wait til u think cal entries should have shown,
ctrl-c to stop mm in the terminal window where i started,

(ctrl-m to minimize mm if doing ON the pi,
I STRONLGY recommend learning to use ssh from other machine to do all maint, so u don’t have these problems )

and then edit somefile.txt to see what is going on