Google Calendar not updating

[vanced54]

Complete Noob here. I am not getting my calendar to work in MM. I have tried many different ways but still no success. The holiday calendar works fine. Is there something not working with Google Calendar?

calendar error 404: Not Found is what I’m getting when I control +Q out of MM

[sdetweil]

@vanced54 said in Google Calendar not updating:

calendar error 404: Not Found

that means the URL you provided is not working (not found)

put the url in the browser on the pi, it must download an ics file… if not fix til it does
then add THAT url to MM calendar config

[vanced54]

@sdetweil Thanks. I will give it a go!

[vanced54]

@sdetweil said in Google Calendar not updating:

@vanced54 said in Google Calendar not updating:

calendar error 404: Not Found

that means the URL you provided is not working (not found)

put the url in the browser on the pi, it must download an ics file… if not fix til it does
then add THAT url to MM calendar config

So I have gotten the 404 error to clear but there are no events coming in.

{
module: “calendar”,
header: “Dustin’s Calendar”,
position: “top_left”,
config: {
calendars: [
{
symbol: “calendar-check-o”,
url: “https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/USERNAME%40gmail.com/private-CODE/basic.ics” }
]
}
},

Here is the code. I did change my user name to USERNAME and the private code to CODE

[sdetweil]

@vanced54 if u edit the downloaded ics file. Do you see the events u are looking for?

[vanced54]

@sdetweil I sure do

[sdetweil]

@vanced54 do you see in the terminal window, or pm2 logs

 Create new calendar fetcher for url: http://www.calendarlabs.com/ical-calendar/ics/76/US_Holidays.ics - Interval: 300000

but with your url?

do you see any errors?

[vanced54]

@sdetweil

Not that I see but there may be something I am overlooking

[sdetweil]

@vanced54 ok, there is a debug tool in the /modules/default/calendar folder

edit the debug.js and put your url in the place of the one there

and then do

node debug.js

it should display events read from the calendar

[vanced54]

@sdetweil where do I do the node debug.js?

I tried it but doesn’t seem to work

I did edit the debug.js file with the same link.

[sdetweil]

@vanced54 you have to be in the MagicMirror/modules/default/calendar folder

[vanced54]

@sdetweil

It does find events. So that means the link is good I belive.

[sdetweil]

@vanced54 are the events in the future?

open the developers window on the mirror
using the ctrl-shift-i on the keyboard or npm start dev

then select the console tab, and scroll up… u can also filter to just the module
by putting part of the module name in the filter field ‘cal’ (no quotes) for example

[vanced54]

@sdetweil

The events were in the past. Only 10 were there but it seems like that is what the max events were set to.

[sdetweil]

@vanced54 yeh, the calendar will not show events in the past… it will (with settings change) broadcast those as part of the calendar data to OTHER modules, which might use it… I have a module that uses the calendar broadcast, but not events in the past

[vanced54]

@sdetweil So what does that mean? Does that provide a clue as to why I’m not getting calendar events to show up?

[sdetweil]

@vanced54 no… cause the calendar shows them and THEN sends a message for others to use…

if the calendar doesn’t find any usable events, then there is nothing to send

[vanced54]

@sdetweil

So any other suggestions as to figure out what is going on?

[sdetweil]

@vanced54 if u send me your cal url, I will test it here.

Send email to my same user ID at gmail

[vanced54]

@sdetweil

I did Thank you