MMM-CalendarExt3

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

kribbitykrab

@sdetweil As always, thank you for the response!

I added the pingInterval and pingTimeout lines to both MagicMirror/js/server.js and MagicMirror/js/socketclient.js as described in your link.

I have also moved my fetchInterval into the config portion of my calendar module as you requested, and increased it to 10minutes. I added a waitFetch of 10sec into my MMM-CalendarExt3 module config, along with a refreshInterval of 10minutes.

When I run MM now however, I am unable to reach localhost. I get an error on Midori booth that says Could not connect: Connection refused. Potentially something to do with the server.js and socketclient.js fiddling? Appreciate further guidance!

sdetweil

@kribbitykrab i think you made a typo

do

npm run server

thegooroo

Default CW display shows on desktop Firefox but not on Chrome/Electron when using the rpi as a display. It only show “CW 1” for each week.

Firefox shows the correct week number “CW 32” in this weeks case. My search-fu is not finding a fix for this.

sdetweil

@thegooroo see
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/127160

thegooroo

@sdetweil Awesome! Many thanks!