Default Calendar: Display Birthdays, Anniversaries

sdetweil

@Rags no, sorry. the calendar depends on the ics file

you could downloaded it manually and use the file . I assume it doesn’t change much

Rags

@sdetweil Ok but newer entries to contacts will not show up.
Could you guide me on how.? to configure the config.js entry pointing to the downloaded file. ALso,

sdetweil

@Rags put it in the calendar module folder

the the url

is

http://localhost:8080/modules/default/calendar/????.ics

??? is whatever u named it

the 8080 is whatever u have configured for port: in mm config.js

sdetweil

@Rags newer entries… it will have to be downloaded again.

somebody/something has to use the public url.

the owner of the calendar could give u the private url. I have one like this. daughter owns it

I don’t see the ‘secret’ of the secret url if I can send it to you and you can use it without logging on as me… same as public

Rags

@sdetweil
I used the export option on google calendar to download the file.
The downloaded file looks like this;
Birthdays_addressbook#contacts@group.v.calendar.google.com.ics
The config file looks like this;
'http://localhost:8080/modules/default/calendar/Birthdays_addressbook#contacts@group.v.calendar.google.com.ics

I get a display of “an error in the calendar module, check log for more details”
the Module is unable to read this format. What needs to be done?

sdetweil

@Rags I do not know what the export option format looks like. just use the public url in this

curl  -sL url  > somefile.ics

thn examine the somefile.ics

it is just a text file

that is the format required

sdetweil

@Rags that url string might need to treat special chars differently (escape them, or use the hex equivalent). I would rename it using simple text

OberfragGER

@Rags
Im uskng MMM-GooglebirthdayProvider. I alreday installed it and have the key for it. work fine.

Problem- Google disavled the old authentification.
https://github.com/PalatinCoder/MMM-GoogleBirthdaysProvider

Just in case…

Fantasmic78

@Rags sorry to ask a maybe stupid question: but how do I export the birthday calendar from my Google calendars?

The key here is, that the birthday calendar it not a “normal” calendar with an ics file, so when looking into the calendar options, it doesn’t offer an export option (while it does for all my normal calendars).

Thx, Chris

Fantasmic78

Update: found it how to export also the birthday calendar (this only works by exporting ALL your calendars at once, but not on the birthday calendar itself).
And anyhow - that didn’t solve my issue - because the exported birthday calendar has each of the birthdays as 3 single events (birthday from last, current and next year), but it’s not a yearly event-series. So using this exported file once wouldn’t help much on my MM - after 2 years all the birthdary events would be gone again.
I will use a workaround now: I will create a separate calendar, where I enter all the birthdays manually (as yearly events). This calendar will then have a public address, and I can include it as separate calendar in MM.