Dumbest question of the week Calendar Module

N6NG

When I start my MM I get a message that says " Error in Calendar Module - Check logs for details"
So my question is… Where are those pesky logs? I tried Whereis *.log but got nothing in return…
Help? and thanks
Dennis

sdetweil

@n6ng where u start mm the messages are output. if u save them, they are the log. if not they are lost

if you use pm2 to launch mm

then the command

pm2 logs --lines=???

where ??? is some number, default 15
will show you ??? lines of the error messages and ??? lines of the non error messages

1st debug step for calendar , take the url u put in config for the ics file , and use it in a browser on the mm system.

it should download the calendar ics file.
which is just text.

N6NG

@sdetweil Thanks Sam… I’ll give it a try.
Dennis

BKeyport

@n6ng alternatively, if you can open two ssh sessions, you can use one of them with just pm2 logs - and watch it live as you restart MagicMirror in the other one.

N6NG

@bkeyport That’s my next project, to get the SSH working so I can program the mm from my PC…
Thanks…
There was an error in the calendar address and once I fixed that it works great… now on to the SSH programing…
Thanks again Sam
Dennis

sdetweil

@n6ng use one of the integrated ssh clients. bitvise or winscp

you get an ssh window AND a file browser over the pi file system. just double click to edit w your favorite editor.

notepad++, vscode, whatever…

BKeyport

@n6ng sudo raspi-config will give ya the options to enable SSH - on the PC, use termius or putty.

As for further PC control, you could look into samba - follow the instructions here for samba, they’re brilliant, even though it claims it’s for MacOS, it works for Windows too.

Edit: Forgot the link: https://kremalicious.com/raspberry-pi-file-and-screen-sharing-macos-ios