Google calender no events shown

[mercuryskies]

Good afternoon, any help will be massively appreicated. So here goes. I cant get the google calender to work in the sense that no events ever appear .

1. I have tried both public and private ical links. Both end in ics.
2. I have pasted the ics file into a text editor and can see events
3. The other modules update and work fine in regards to internet connection.
4. Settings in my google cal are all set to show but nothing seems to be hidden and I can see everything up date on my syncd phone if edited via laptop .

Can anyone help ?? Thanks

[sdetweil]

@Seregeth the creator of the calendar is the only one that can find the link… so you have to ask them to give it to you…

I have the same problem on my family calendar… my daughter had to give it to me.

[sdetweil]

@mercuryskies put the https://… url into a browser on the pi. it should download the ics file…

if not, its not shared correctly…

the pi does not logon as you , like the windows browser does…

if it does download, then open the developers window on the Mirror screen, ctrl-shoft-i, select the tab labeled ‘console’ and scroll up to see any errors…
you can filter the messages too, by putting part of the module name in the filter field like ‘cal’ for calendar (no quotes)

[mercuryskies]

@sdetweil thanks sam I will try this tonight and reply. Cheers

[mercuryskies]

@sdetweil what could make it not share correctly ? As in settings in my Google account?
I tried pasting the private and public url into my browser and it said the site cant be reached and that the server ip adress could not be found? Any thoughts? Thanks

[sdetweil]

@mercuryskies the link does say https:// not webcal:// right? if webcal, just change to https

it said the site cant be reached and that the server ip adress could not be found
but that is bigger problem than shared or not

[mercuryskies]

@sdetweil yeah it reads
Url: “https://calender.google.com/calender/ical and then my name and some random numbers letters etc and ends in ics” closed bracket

[sdetweil]

@mercuryskies

mine is

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/sdetweil%40gmail.com/private-b01535955cdb72021e36fae98c08a186/basic.ics

(number changed to protect the innocent!)

if you go to your browser again and do

https://calendar.google.com

what happens?

if u can’t reach the server, then the mirror cannot get the data

[mercuryskies]

@sdetweil browser is fine. Also all my other internet dependant modules work ok. It is purely calender not showing events when the adress seems fine and all settings are set to allow

[sdetweil]

@mercuryskies please cut paste your calendar config. Change some of the coded numbers, but don’t change anything else. Use the code block to mark it

Select all, hit the </>

[mercuryskies]

Hi there, below is my calendar config. Thanks again, Michael.

language: “en”,
timeFormat: 12,
units: “metric”,

modules: [
	{
		module: "alert",
	},
	{
		module: "updatenotification",
		position: "top_bar"
	},
	{
		module: "clock",
		position: "top_left"
	},
	{
		module: "calendar",
		header: "Family Calender",
		position: "bottom_left",
		config: {
			calendars: [
				{
					symbol: "calendar",
					
					url: "https://calender.google.com/calender/ical/michael.lloyd%40live.com/public/basics.ics", }
					//url: "https://calender.google.com/calender/ical/michael.lloyd%40live.com/private-cf63bd901ffd72df081e7258123456789/basics.ics"  }
											//url: "webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/ical-calendar/ics/76/US_Holidays.ics"					}
			]
		}

[mercuryskies]

i have commented out the private one as when i do not the file crashes

[sdetweil]

@mercuryskies right, cause the 1st one ends with ,} which closes the lists of calendars, and then next one has a } too…

the 1st one url doesn’t work for some reason, (in browser)

so the test is to take each url, and put it into a browser on the pi, it should download the ics file… if not, you have to fix THAT…
the pi does not logon as you… so it might work on windows

[mercuryskies]

so both of the google calendar links do not work in my pi browser, it just says site not available.
if i paste the last default webcal address it just takes me to a google search result.

[sdetweil]

@mercuryskies i typed over the word calendar in the https://calendar.google.com and it gets urls not found, not address not found…

try that… seems some goofy character

[mercuryskies]

the standard google calendar url works fine. it takes me to my calendar and i can see everything in my browser.
but when i try my private and public urs in the browser i get the site can not be reached.
i am so confused

[sdetweil]

@mercuryskies i was confused as well, then started overtyping the url to find the problem… something in the word ‘calendar’ not right… type it over from the keyboard, not just cut/paste

[mercuryskies]

@sdetweil I’m sorry to sound dumb but can you elaborate . Over typing ? Where are you putting the corrected url .

[sdetweil]

@mercuryskies paste the url of a calendar entry into the browser, then using the keyboard, type over each character (overtype) one by one, and test hitting enter til the thing works.

that is what I had to do… then, when it works, copy/paste THAT url back into the calendar entry in config.js

[mercuryskies]

@sdetweil ooooooooh exciting. I’ll try that now
Thanks

[mercuryskies]

@mercuryskies as Instructed I’ve over typed each character and keep getting " the site cannot be reached
Calnder.google.com s server ip adress can not be found . Try checking connection and proxy firewall and Dns… "
Nothing downloads basically. The url ends in ics correct?