Easy setup not so easy?

1lolo94

Howdy!! New to the magic mirror forum and need some help. I have been playing around with this project for 2 weeks now and still not getting anywhere. I don’t want anything fancy - time, weather and calendar.

I have tried many modules and most of them are failing on me and I get to the point where I reset the config file and start over.

Does anyone have any recommendations on 3 modules? I am not looking for any fancy but would like something other than the default.

Can anyone help? My wife is starting to get mad at me because I promised this would an easy project

Thanks

sdetweil

@1lolo94 did you look in the 3rd party modules list?

what do you want in each category? maybe that would help

what do you mean fail for the ones you tried?

1lolo94

@sdetweil I have tried multiple weather ones along with calendar ones - same issue of stuck on loading for both.
Maybe I am doing something wrong so that is why i am reaching out for some recommendations on the 3 people are using that actually work.

Thanks for the reply.

sdetweil

@1lolo94 loading is the default message while the module waits for data.

weather for openweather is a pain in the rear.

they have changed key types, called version.

the module requires a new Parm

apiVersion:"3.0",

none are free anymore… openweathermap requires a credit card. altho low usage can be free of charges.

and most modules don’t handle errors well

1lolo94

@sdetweil would you or anyone recommend any calendar (that works with Google calendar) or weather modules that work as of today?

Not trying to be a pain, just frustrated 😔

sdetweil

@1lolo94 they work, just have to get the right API key

calendar, what is wrong w the default?

then there are others that display like a wall calendar

MMM-MonthlyCalendar
MMM-CalendarExt3

both get their info from the default calendar

you may need to install the older parser

cd~/MagicMirror
npm install node-ical@0.16.1

1lolo94

@sdetweil Thanks for the response. I would like integrate our shared google calendar - i will look at these again and report back.

Thanks

sdetweil

@1lolo94 the owner/creator of the calendar has to provide the url.

1lolo94

@sdetweil gotcha! I have that and tried the MMM-CalendarExt3 - filled everything out correctly and it’s sitting on a white screen doing nothing for 5 min now :(

sdetweil

@1lolo94 it gets its events from the default calendar. so you configure the url over there, right?