Problem with Google generated .ics link

ankonaskiff17

I am running two calendars, the standard one out of the box and then a second instance but have my personal Google calendar in the url.
When it tries to load that url I get several errors, starting with this. I’ve done this numerous times in past. Google creates an ics link, you plug it in to URL slot and everything worked but not now.

[24.04.2022 19:05.23.694] [ERROR] Calendar Error. Could not fetch calendar:  https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/group.calendar.google.com/private-yadayada/basic.ics RangeError: Invalid time value
at Date.toISOString (<anonymous>)
at /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/default/calendar/calendarutils.js:314:28
at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
at Object.filterEvents (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/default/calendar/calendarutils.js:142:24)
at /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/default/calendar/calendarfetcher.js:74:29
at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)

sdetweil

@ankonaskiff17 could u post one of the vevents from the ICS file?

curl -sL   whatever_url  >xxx.ics

xxx.ics is a text file

ankonaskiff17

@sdetweil said in Problem with Google generated .ics link:

curl -sL whatever_url >xxx.ics

What were you either expecting or hoping to see?
Looks like a bunch of my calendar entries in like csv (or similar) format.

I had earlier dropped link in MS Edge and it opened the Google calendar but in the MS Edge default calendar applet or whatever they call those bare bones apps

sdetweil

@ankonaskiff17

pick a
BEGIN:VEVENT
.
.
.
END:VEVENT

change whatever is personal, dont change the date info please

this is the format the calendar module passes to the parser…

its needs to be in a specific format

u don’t want a calendar tool to display it, we need to look at the raw text…

(I spent 8 months in there solving all kinds of problems., and with the parser too)

ankonaskiff17

@sdetweil I’m not worried about personal stuff in this one so you got complete.
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20200512T124500Z
DTEND:20200512T134500Z
DTSTAMP:20220424T235526Z
UID:74o68d9k61hj4b9pckom6b9kccsj2bb1cdgj6bb370sj0dpk6k
CREATED:20210216T015059Z
DESCRIPTION:
LAST-MODIFIED:20210216T015059Z
LOCATION:
SEQUENCE:0
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:X-Ray & MRI
TRANSP:OPAQUE
END:VEVENT

ankonaskiff17

@ankonaskiff17 I know historically it would post my calendar info as a list, identical to the US Holiday link

sdetweil

@ankonaskiff17 ok, we need to see which one is causing the problem… so edit config.js and change loglevel like this

logLevel: ["INFO", "LOG", "WARN", "ERROR","DEBUG"], // Add "DEBUG" for even more logging

then run MM like this

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm start >somefile.txt

wait for cal to come up

ctrl-c to end MM

then examine someflle.txt

u may need to send me the file

same userid at gmail. I don’t share

sdetweil

my event looks like this

BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20220126T150000Z
DTEND:20220126T210000Z
DTSTAMP:20220425T000759Z
UID:6oq3edpnc9ijeb9nc9h30b9k6tj3ibb2c5j3eb9k75hj6opk6dhjce32cg@google.com
CREATED:20220111T023256Z
DESCRIPTION:
LAST-MODIFIED:20220111T023256Z
LOCATION:
SEQUENCE:0
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:drive to ft stockton
TRANSP:OPAQUE
END:VEVENT

ankonaskiff17

@sdetweil Check your email

sdetweil

@ankonaskiff17 replied

ankonaskiff17

@sdetweil Sent another email. Do you want copy of log files referenced in terminal

ankonaskiff17

@ankonaskiff17 Also, this laptop of mine keeps dropping its wifi connection so bear that in mind, generally momentary but aggravating.

sdetweil

@ankonaskiff17 i think this dropping is power control…

there is a commandline to turn power control for wifi off

I have the same problem on a pi 0 2 w (one of 3)

ankonaskiff17

@sdetweil Every device in home is fine but laptop.
2nd HP I’ve had this happen to.

ankonaskiff17

@ankonaskiff17 I’m using VNC to access Pi. It’s just chugging along no wifi issues whatsoever

ankonaskiff17

@ankonaskiff17 My mistake starting over fresh

ankonaskiff17

@ankonaskiff17 I rebooted pi, MM launched did pm2 stop all,
got back to MM directory and did npm start and that is ugly. Line after line of the word NULL, then a mish mash of garbage tthen saw VEVENT related to holiday calendar but MM crashed in among all that.

ankonaskiff17

@ankonaskiff17 @sdetweil check email for sample

ankonaskiff17

@ankonaskiff17 @sdetweil
ull,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null]
[24.04.2022 21:25.05.341] [DEBUG] event.recurrences: undefined
[24.04.2022 21:25.05.359] [ERROR] Calendar Error. Could not fetch calendar: https://calendar.google.com/c/basic.ics RangeError: Invalid time value
at Date.toISOString ()
at /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/default/calendar/calendarutils.js:314:28
at Array.forEach ()
at Object.filterEvents (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/default/calendar/calendarutils.js:142:24)
at /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/default/calendar/calendarfetcher.js:74:29
at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)

sdetweil

@ankonaskiff17 i replied to email