MMM-CalendarExt3

sdetweil

@chriskar views and scenes were config options in calendarExt2, but are not used in Ext3

chriskar

@sdetweil said in MMM-CalendarExt3:

@chriskar views and scenes were config options in calendarExt2, but are not used in Ext3

so i remove views and scenes and use only the config part?

sdetweil

@chriskar correct

mode:week
weeksInView:3
weekIndex:0 //first week to see, -1 is last week, default

etc

chriskar

ok thanks, this worked fine!
what about the overlaping issue? css code is mostly AI generated so it probably has a lot of junk in

sdetweil

@chriskar i do not know on css
he provides lots of control, but wrap seems difficult

p1lspeda

Hi,
I updated to MM 2.32 this morning and ever since then, I have noticed that the CW entry in my MMM-CalendarExt3 is stuck at “CW1”:

I assume the newest changes have something to do with it

Any idea if I can solve this or do I need to wait for a module update ?
Thanks

sdetweil

@p1lspeda I see the same bug, but not sure where it is

a temp fix is to add this line to the CX3 config section

          minimalDaysOfNewYear:1,  // week number of 1st week in your country (should be 0 or 1)

there was an open issue on this inthe CX3 repo
https://github.com/MMRIZE/MMM-CalendarExt3/issues/215

I posted this workaround there too

p1lspeda

@sdetweil
Great.
Thanks for help (again!)

kribbitykrab

Hi folks,

Trying to get MMM-CalendarExt3 working on my Pi Zero W running MM v2.30.0 and running into an issue where the calendar is blank. Relevant config.js below:

{
   module: "calendar",
   config: {
      broadcastPastEvents: true,
      maximumEntries: 10000,
      colored: true,
      calendars: [
          {
               fetchInterval: 1* 60 * 1000,
               symbol: "calendar-check",
               name: "p_and_b",
               color: "rgba(255, 0, 0, 1)",
               url: "..."
          },
          {
               fetchInterval: 1* 60 * 1000,
               name: "cal2",
               color: "rgba(0, 0, 255, 1)",
               url: "..."
          }
       [
   }
},
{
   module: "MMM-CaendarExt3",
   position: "bottom_bar",
   title: "family dashboard",
   config: {
      mode: "month"
      instanceID: "basicCalendar",
      locale: 'en-US'
      maxEventLines: 5,
      firstDayOfWeek: 1,
      calendarSet: ["p_and_b", "cal2"]
   }
},

Can anyone help me understand why my monthly calendar is coming up blank and a workaround?

sdetweil

@kribbitykrab ok, this is worse on pi 0w

Ext3 gets the calendar events from the default calendar

the calendar module fetches each url separately and broadcasts the events to other modules if they want to use them

but EXT3 doesn’t want to flash redraw the cal each time a block of events show up

so it also has a

refreshInterval

take whatever events have arrived since last time and display ( default 30 minutes)

now there is another tuning thing
if it drew immediately on startup it would be empty, cause startup is faster than fetch. but EXT3 doesn’t know how many cal urls might supply events.
so there is the

waitFetch

config parm (default 5 seconds)
wait that long after startup before displaying any events
then next will be updateinterval

pi0w is SOOOOOOO slow ,no events arrive before waitFetch
so next time is updateInterval time

so you can adjust these some

you are probably
impacted by this bug too, timeout on the connection between front and back ends
see https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/127456