MMM-CalendarExt3

anonymous321

Hello, I’m new to MagicMirror trying to build my first. I’m having an issue with any events showing up. When I run the attached code I get a blank calendar. However when I run the regular calendar I see all the events. Am I doing something wrong?

{
			module: "MMM-MonthlyCalendar",
			header: "Family Calendar",
			position: "bottom_bar",
			config: {
				updatesEvery: 30,
				weeksInFuture: 5, 
				mode: "fourWeeks",
				firstDayofWeek: "sunday",
                               //maximumEntries: "10000", <--- " I saw in one of the forums that this could help but it did not."
				calendars: [
				  {
					url: "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/******basic.ics",
					priority: 1,
				  },
				]
			  }
			}

Here is a screenshot of the regular calendar.

This is what it looks like with MMM-CalendarExt3

sdetweil

@anonymous321 2 things

what MagicMirror version is this? latest?

see this https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/19282/version-2-30-0-calendar-fix-for-clipping-broadcast-events

anonymous321

I think its the latest. I just installed it two nights ago. How would I check the version number?

sdetweil

@anonymous321 look at the messages at startu
if using pm2 then

pm2 logs --lines=xxx
xxx is number of most recent lines, default 15

or look inside the package.json file

anonymous321

Version 1.9.4

sdetweil

@anonymous321

MagicMirror version

the fix is in the MagicMirror calendar module

p1lspeda

Hi,
I’ve just come across this great module, but I cannot quite get it to work.
My default calendar module shows multiple google-calendar based calendars/entries.
This works fine.
However: CX3 only shows the ‘work’ calendar and I do not know why.

Can anybody point me in the right direction ?

Edit: so I got it working (somehow) but the calendar entries take forever to show up in CX3.
Why is that ?

[2025-02-07 12:31:47.169] [INFO]  Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 12 events from https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical...
[2025-02-07 12:31:47.701] [INFO]  Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 27 events from https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical...
[2025-02-07 12:31:48.719] [INFO]  Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 70 events from https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical...
[2025-02-07 12:31:49.691] [INFO]  Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 42 events from https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical...
[2025-02-07 12:31:50.976] [INFO]  Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 36 events from https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical...
[2025-02-07 12:31:56.453] [INFO]  Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 93 events from https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical...

Thanks

my CX3 config:

{
                        module: "MMM-CalendarExt3",
                        position: "bottom_bar",
                        title: "",
                        config: {
                                mode: "week",
                                weekIndex: "0",
                                weeksInView: "2",
                                instanceId: "basicCalendar",
                                //locale: 'de-DE',
                                maxEventLines: 8,
                                firstDayOfWeek: 1,
                                calendarSet: null,
                                }
                },

my default calendar module config:

                              {
                                        module: "calendar",
                                        position: "bottom_right",
                                        header: "Calendar",
                                        config: {
                                                broadcastPastEvents: true,
                                                colored: false,
                                                coloredSymbolOnly: false,
                                                maximumEntries: 8,
                                                maxTitleLength: 50,
                                                maximumNumberOfDays: 180,
                                                timeFormat: "relative",
                                                getRelative: 60 * 24,
                                                urgency: 60,
                                                calendars: [
                                                        {
                                                                url: 'https://calendar.google.com/calendar...',
                                                                symbol: 'calendar', // MAINZ 05 CALENDAR
                                                                name: 'mainz05',
                                                                colour: 'white',
                                                        },
                
                                                        {
                                                                url: 'https://calendar.google.com/calendar...',
                                                                symbol: 'calendar', // MAIN GOOGLE CALENDAR
                                                                name: 'personal',
                                                                colour: 'white',
                                                        },
                
                                                        {
                                                                url: 'https://calendar.google.com/calendar...',
                                                                symbol: 'calendar', // FORMULA 1 CALENDAR
                                                                name: 'f1',
                                                                colour: 'white',
                                                        },
                
                                                        {
                                                                url: 'https://calendar.google.com/calendar...',
                                                                symbol: 'calendar', // EB MAINZ
                                                                name: 'eb_mainz',
                                                                colour: 'white',
                                                        },
                
                                                        {
                                                                url: 'https://calendar.google.com/calendar...',
                                                                symbol: 'calendar', // PRO RUNDE
                                                                name: 'pro_runde',
                                                                colour: 'white',
                                                        },
                
                                                        {
                                                                url: 'https://calendar.google.com/calendar...',
                                                                symbol: 'calendar', // BUSINESS TRIPS
                                                                name: 'work',
                                                                colour: 'white',
                                                        },
                                                ],
                                        },
                                },

sdetweil

@p1lspeda i would start with commenting out the calendarSet:null

p1lspeda

@sdetweil
thanks for the help.
Did that - no change.
Same problem and I have no idea where to start an look

Edit: HA ! I decreased the refreshIntervall and it seems as that did the trick - I could have probably just waited 30min (but I’m impatient)

sdetweil

@p1lspeda ok. nice work.
Ext3 attempts to not flash the screen on every update. the individual calendar data arrive at different times

so the waitFetch value is used to decide when to display initially, and refreshInterval after that

waitFetch defaults to 5 seconds

so this means some data arrived after 5 seconds (waitFetch)

p1lspeda

Re: MMM-CalendarExt3

Next (easy) question:
My CX3 module doesn’t have symmetrical borders (left & right), i.e. the left border is smaller than the right border.
I want to maximize the width or at least have symmetrical borders.
Border = distance between module edge and display edge
See the screenshot:

How can I adjust these in my custom.css ?
My custom.css includes

body {
        margin: 10px;
        position: absolute;
        height: calc(100% - 30px);
        width: calc(100% - 30px);
}

A hint/clue/idea would be very much appreciated.
Thanks !

sdetweil

@p1lspeda we already set margins and borders
see css/main.css

sounds like your 7 day width is not symmetrical to the position the module is in

CX3 has extensive classes that should allow you to position it properly

also your css entry whacks the entire page, not just your module config.

see the position layout in the doc here

html is typically reading anchored left for ltr langusgrd abd right for rtl langusges, so you should br able to increase the left edge number to shift the whole image right

.CX3 {
   left:20px;
}

this left is relative to its configured position

p1lspeda

@sdetweil Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
Seems I need to play around with css.

sdetweil

@p1lspeda see the second link below in my signature for using the developers window elements tan

gonzonia

I just did a new build of my MM to upgrade to Bookworm and update to no longer use unsupported modules. Everything went well for the most part except my calendars aren’t showing. This is in the Error log from start up -

[2025-02-17 11:56:43.570] [33m[WARN] [39m [33m[1m[MMM-CalendarExt3.js:390:11][0m [CX3] Module is not prepared yet, wait a while.[39m 
[2025-02-17 11:56:43.576] [33m[WARN] [39m [33m[1m[MMM-CalendarExt3.js:390:11][0m [CX3] Module is not prepared yet, wait a while.[39m 
[2025-02-17 11:56:43.668] [33m[WARN] [39m [33m[1m[MMM-CalendarExt3Agenda.js:186:11][0m [CX3A] Module is not prepared yet, wait a while.[39m 
[2025-02-17 11:56:43.673] [33m[WARN] [39m [33m[1m[MMM-CalendarExt3Agenda.js:186:11][0m [CX3A] Module is not prepared yet, wait a while.[39m 
[2025-02-17 11:56:43.690] [33m[WARN] [39m [33m[1m[MMM-CalendarExt3Agenda.js:186:11][0m [CX3A] Module is not prepared yet, wait a while.[39m

I can see in the main log that the Calendar module is getting data -

[2025-02-17 17:12:47.050] [34m[INFO] [39m [34mCalendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 584 events from https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/XXXXXXX/basic.ics.[39m 
[2025-02-17 17:12:47.215] [34m[INFO] [39m [34m[1m[calendar.js:699:7][0m sorting events count=130[39m 
[2025-02-17 17:12:47.297] [34m[INFO] [39m [34m[1m[calendar.js:699:7][0m sorting events count=112[39m 
[2025-02-17 17:12:47.309] [34m[INFO] [39m [34m[1m[calendar.js:739:7][0m slicing events total maxcount=10[39m

I’ve tried the

git submodule update --init --recursive

from the install instructions and it didn’t seem to help. Thoughts?

sdetweil

@gonzonia if you installed MagicMirror 2.30
did you also install the fix?

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/19282/version-2-30-0-calendar-fix-for-clipping-broadcast-events?page=7

gonzonia

@sdetweil No. I had not seen that. Installing now. Thanks!

redink

Would it be possible to combine the calendar color indicator at the time using just CSS?

Right now, it’s a colored circle and the time next to it and I was wondering if it would somehow be possible to have the time be inside the circle, or have the time be a different background color.

My display is quite small, and saving a few extra pixels would be nice.

alfi153

Hello.
Is it possible that with the Calender-ext3 in the weekly display the calendar entries are displayed in two or three lines?

CyruS1337

Hello everyone

I hope you can help me. I’m trying to get the calendar to display in Calendar Ext3.

This is what my configuration looks like

                        {
                          module: "calendar",
                          position: "top_left",
                          config: {
                            broadcastPastEvents: true, // <= IMPORTANT to see past events
                            calendars: [
                              {
                                url: "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/....................ics",
                                name: "Andreas", // <= RECOMMENDED to assign name
                                color: "red" // <= RECOMMENDED to assign color
                                }
                        ]
                        }
                      },
                        {
                          module: "MMM-CalendarExt3",
                          position: "bottom_bar",
                           title: "",
                           config: {
                            mode: "month",
                            instanceId: "basicCalendar",
                            locale: 'de-CH',
                            maxEventLines: 5,
                            firstDayOfWeek: 1,
                            calendarSet: ['Andreas'],
                          }
                },