Calendar not updating

[sdetweil]

@matt216 can u show me that event from the ICS file?

does the rest of the debug output say

Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting xxx events

where xxx is not 0

[matt216]

@sdetweil from ics file:

BEGIN:VEVENT
CREATED:20240105T132005Z
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240106T100000
DTSTAMP:20240105T132006Z
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240106T090000
LAST-MODIFIED:20240105T132005Z
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:test1234567
TRANSP:OPAQUE
UID:60E1B9F2-66C4-46ED-B98E-AD1A36FAB1EF
URL;VALUE=URI:
X-APPLE-CREATOR-IDENTITY:com.apple.mobilecal
X-APPLE-CREATOR-TEAM-IDENTITY:0000000000
END:VEVENT

Broadcasting 1000+ events, yes.

[sdetweil]

@matt216 and it works perfectly here…

could you try in config before the calendars list

broadcastPastEvents: false

[matt216]

@sdetweil config now:

{
                        module: "calendar",
                        header: "calendar",
                        position: "top_left",
                        config: {
                                fetchInterval: 120000,
                                timeFormat: 'absolute',
                                maximumEntries: 5,
                                broadcastPastEvents: false,
                                calendars: [
                                        {
                                                url: 'https://my.cal.url',
                                                auth:   {
                                                        user: 'user',
                                                        pass: 'pass',
                                                        method: 'basic'
                                                        }
                                        }
                                        ],
                                }
                },

No change. Still not displaying newly created events. :(

[sdetweil]

@matt216 ok, i don’t know… lets get you back to running on the prior release

stop mm, shouldn’t be running as its not helpful

cd ~/MagicMirror

git tag -l 

to see the list of tagged commits,

then

git checkout temp_branch -b tags/v???????

where ??? is the number 2.25.0 or whatever u want to go back to

then

rm -rf node_modules
npm install 

please advise(we can get back to the current v2.26.0 branch too, very easily

[sdetweil]

@matt216 just one last thing, if you comment out

 maximumEntries: 5,

what happens?

[matt216]

@sdetweil commenting maximumEntries just shows the default 10 entries, but still does not include recently created events that should show within those 10.

Getting a git error (novice here, sorry):

fatal: 'temp_branch' is not a commit and a branch 'tags/v2.24.0' cannot be created from it

Although this issue existed before I upgraded to 2.26.0…

[matt216]

I might have a go at spinning up another calendar server and see if the issue still exists there. This calendar is a newly self-hosted one so it could be an issue there (although the magicmirror is the only device having trouble with it).

Thanks for the help still.
Matt

[sdetweil]

@matt216 also try

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm install electron@28.1.1

supposedly it has the fix for ipv6 vs 4

[matt216]

@sdetweil Thanks. Done. No change :(

Have you heard of others with this problem? No one else on this thread. I really appreciate your efforts, but don’t worry too much if it’s just me. Part of the fun with self-hosting calendars etc :)

[sdetweil]

@matt216 I have not had others with no updates, but others w missing events

[nechry]

I also had the problem with a Google calendar and an iCloud. for me the update to electronic@28.1.1 was the solution, now everything works as with the previous version of MM

[sdetweil]

@nechry thanks for the feedback

[mspk]

@sdetweil said in Calendar not updating:

@matt216 I have not had others with no updates, but others w missing events

Hi, I’m pretty new here, so sorry if I mess something up. I think I have the same problem. Installed MM yesterday (so pretty vanilla setup), the only module I added is the MMM-CalendarExt3.
I configured everything as it should be (I hope at least), but for some reason, my calendars are not beeing updated and one is not beeing show at all… I don’t know what to do anymore, maybe you guys have an idea.

Here is my error: ```
0|MagicMirror | [09.01.2024 12:28.43.248] [ERROR] Calendar Error. Could not fetch calendar: https://calendar.google.com/[MyCalendarNameHere]/basic.ics
TypeError: fetch failed
0|MagicMirror | at Object.fetch (node:internal/deps/undici/undici:11576:11) {
0|MagicMirror | cause: Error: write EPIPE
0|MagicMirror | at WriteWrap.onWriteComplete [as oncomplete] (node:internal/stream_base_commons:94:16)
0|MagicMirror | at handleWriteReq (node:internal/stream_base_commons:58:21)
0|MagicMirror | at writeGeneric (node:internal/stream_base_commons:149:15)
0|MagicMirror | at TLSSocket._writeGeneric (node:net:931:11)
0|MagicMirror | at TLSSocket._write (node:net:943:8)
0|MagicMirror | at writeOrBuffer (node:internal/streams/writable:392:12)
0|MagicMirror | at _write (node:internal/streams/writable:333:10)
0|MagicMirror | at TLSSocket.write (node:internal/streams/writable:337:10)
0|MagicMirror | at write (node:internal/deps/undici/undici:10124:18)
0|MagicMirror | at _resume (node:internal/deps/undici/undici:10037:33)
0|MagicMirror | at resume (node:internal/deps/undici/undici:9938:7)
0|MagicMirror | at [dispatch] (node:internal/deps/undici/undici:9286:11)
0|MagicMirror | at Client.Intercept (node:internal/deps/undici/undici:9017:20)
0|MagicMirror | at Client.dispatch (node:internal/deps/undici/undici:7772:44)
0|MagicMirror | at [dispatch] (node:internal/deps/undici/undici:7991:32)
0|MagicMirror | at Pool.dispatch (node:internal/deps/undici/undici:7772:44) {
0|MagicMirror | errno: -32,
0|MagicMirror | code: ‘EPIPE’,
0|MagicMirror | syscall: ‘write’
0|MagicMirror | }
0|MagicMirror | }

Thanks!

[sdetweil]

@mspk I think you have the wrong calendar url , you need the ical format url, not the embed url
mine is like

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/sdetweil%40gmail.com/private-fhkjsadfhsdflk'sdfk/basic.ics

[mspk]

@sdetweil said in Calendar not updating:

I think you have the wrong calendar url , you need the ical format url, not the embed url
mine is like

You mean the public one? Because for some reason, 3 of the 5 calendars work just fine with the private ICal Format address.

[matt216]

@sdetweil I think you are potentially right. For baikal I have followed such advice as here: https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/434/caldav/4?_=1704811423495 where it was advised just adding ?export to the end of the cal URL to generate the ics file, but it is not an actual ics link.
I shall work along those lines…

[sdetweil]

@matt216 i test others problems by building an ics FILE and using the url

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

so it doesn’t have to be ON a ‘server’… just has to be an ICS format file.
linking to google, the url returns that data when the calendar does a get request
same as for the local file. BUT we depend on the data changing…
the cal module does not know that ‘this’ fetch was or was not different than the last fetch.
we don’t keep a diff… we just get the current data and present it.

if it didn’t change then nothing changes

[matt216]

@sdetweil Trying this.
Steps:

1. add new test event scheduled tomorrow
2. verify event on another device, proving calendar server sync
3. curl .ics file from server, find test event
4. set calendar module as described in your post above

Result:
calendar loads successfully, but still does not show new event.

Event as shown in ics file:

BEGIN:VEVENT
CREATED:20240109T161646Z
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240110T170000
DTSTAMP:20240109T161647Z
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240110T160000
LAST-MODIFIED:20240109T161646Z
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:test54321
TRANSP:OPAQUE
UID:156ED8F1-9BDA-43D2-BE7C-DDEFE18E95EF
URL;VALUE=URI:
X-APPLE-CREATOR-IDENTITY:com.apple.mobilecal
X-APPLE-CREATOR-TEAM-IDENTITY:0000000000
END:VEVENT

I think MagicMirror does not like the baikal server - no events created since I migrated from iCloud to self-hosted baikal are showing. Can you see anything unusual in the ics event above @sdetweil ?

[matt216]

@sdetweil so I’ve just spun up a radicale calendar server and added a few test events, then some more - works perfectly!

Looks like a problem with baikal integration