Use local ICS file instead

plainbroke

Re: Default Calendar
How would I go about using a local ICS file for example birthdays and holidays since I can get ICS files downloaded and would only need to move to the correct folder. Just a thought to take out all the middle men and lighten the load on my wireless internet connection…

plainbroke

@sdetweil
I finally have calendar working again. Had to completely replace my config.js with the sample one. Then rebuild it. I could get everyone of my calendars to work in the stripped down config.js so I just removed my calendars settings from my original config.js then copied and pasted the working calendar settings from the stripped down one saved and rebooted calendars work fine now. NOW on to the MMM-CalendarExt3 not picking up from the default calendar for some reason… Thats a problem for another day…

sdetweil

@plainbroke put the ics file anywhere in MagicMirror or further down

http:// starts at the MagicMirror folder

course you can use a symbolic link to store it somewhere else, and make it appear in the mm folder tree

see the ln command

plainbroke

@sdetweil

Okay,
I have saved my ics in the MagicMirror folder and trying to use this
url: “http://MagicMirror/Birthdays.ics”,
I still get nothing. This is kinda important with the size of my family I would forget Birthdays constantly. Probably even my own.
What am I doing wrong or do I need to reload the default calendar into
cd /MagicMirror/modules/ default. I tried going to google calendars and managing my account turned 2 step off and then back on and redid all the steps for gmail and then went in and got the new calendar links with no changes to calendar showing up. Pulling my hair out on this one. Been at it a couple days now. It is probably so simple I cant see the forest for all the trees type thing…

sdetweil

@plainbroke http://localhost:8080/Birthdays.ics

or whatever your mm port number is

localhost means ONLY apps on the same machine can access,

plainbroke

@sdetweil
Ok, I have the Birthdays.ics in my MagicMirror directory.
and this is what is in my config.js and I am getting a message
Error in calendar module: check error logs for more details.
Not sure where to go from here.

{
        module: "calendar",
        position: "middle_center",
        header: "Burdick Home",
        config: {
                fade: false,
                maximumEntries: 11,
                timeFormat: "absolute",
                urgency: 3,
                getRelative: 24,
                broadcastPastEvents: true, // <= IMPORTANT to see past events
                calendars: [
                {
                        url: "http://localhost:8181/Birthdays.ics",
                        name: "birthdays", // <= RECOMMENDED to assign name
                        color: "#1B489C", // <= RECOMMENDED to assign color
                        symbol: "birthday-cake"
                },
                {
                        url: "http://localhost:8181/MyHolidays.ics",
                        name: "us_holiday", // <= RECOMMENDED to assign name
                        color: "#2AC404", // <= RECOMMENDED to assign color
                        symbol: "icons"
},
                            ]
                }
},

plainbroke

Maybe my pm2 error log will help.
looks like I am missing a file but can not figure out how to install it or what to install.

/home/pi/.pm2/logs/omx-stream1-error.log last 15 lines:
0|omx_stre | dbus[632]: Unable to set up transient service directory: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR "/run/user/1000" not available: No such file or directory
0|omx_stre | /usr/bin/omxplayer: line 67: 85464 Killed                  LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$OMXPLAYER_LIBS${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH}" $OMXPLAYER_BIN "$@"
0|omx_stre | dbus[626]: Unable to set up transient service directory: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR "/run/user/1000" not available: No such file or directory
0|omx_stre | dbus[629]: Unable to set up transient service directory: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR "/run/user/1000" not available: No such file or directory
0|omx_stre | dbus[627]: Unable to set up transient service directory: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR "/run/user/1000" not available: No such file or directory
0|omx_stre | dbus[83012]: arguments to dbus_message_new_method_call() were incorrect, assertion "destination == NULL || _dbus_check_is_valid_bus_name (destination)" failed in file ../../../dbus/dbus-message.c line 1364.
0|omx_stre | This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
0|omx_stre |
0|omx_stre |   D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
0|omx_stre | /usr/bin/omxplayer: line 67: 83012 Aborted                 (core dumped) LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$OMXPLAYER_LIBS${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH}" $OMXPLAYER_BIN "$@"
0|omx_stre | dbus[626]: Unable to set up transient service directory: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR "/run/user/1000" not available: No such file or directory
0|omx_stre | dbus[624]: Unable to set up transient service directory: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR "/run/user/1000" not available: No such file or directory

/home/pi/.pm2/logs/MagicMirror-error.log last 15 lines:
1|mm       | MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
1|mm       | MESA-LOADER: failed to open kms_swrast: /usr/lib/dri/kms_swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: Permission denied (search paths /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri)
1|mm       | failed to load driver: kms_swrast
1|mm       | MESA-LOADER: failed to open swrast: /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: Permission denied (search paths /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri)
1|mm       | failed to load swrast driver
1|mm       | [2651:0709/163251.289963:ERROR:broker_posix.cc(40)] Recvmsg error: Connection reset by peer (104)
1|mm       | /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/electron exited with signal SIGINT
1|mm       | MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
1|mm       | MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
1|mm       | MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
1|mm       | MESA-LOADER: failed to open kms_swrast: /usr/lib/dri/kms_swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: Permission denied (search paths /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri)
1|mm       | failed to load driver: kms_swrast
1|mm       | MESA-LOADER: failed to open swrast: /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: Permission denied (search paths /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri)
1|mm       | failed to load swrast driver
1|mm       | [2838:0709/163305.686316:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 1 times!

karsten13

@plainbroke

This will not work: "http://localhost:8181/Birthdays.ics"

You can try to move the local ics file into the config directory and then use "webcal://localhost:8181/config/Birthdays.ics" as url.

sdetweil

@karsten13 webcal is just replaced with http
line 99 of calendar.js
the root of the web server is ~/MagicMirror

plainbroke

@sdetweil
I finally have calendar working again. Had to completely replace my config.js with the sample one. Then rebuild it. I could get everyone of my calendars to work in the stripped down config.js so I just removed my calendars settings from my original config.js then copied and pasted the working calendar settings from the stripped down one saved and rebooted calendars work fine now. NOW on to the MMM-CalendarExt3 not picking up from the default calendar for some reason… Thats a problem for another day…

sdetweil

@plainbroke weird. I wonder what the config js problem wskdontgerebis a setting to cause broadcastEvents, which Ext3 depends on

SOLVED Use local ICS file instead