MMM-Calendar showing multi day event with start day not current day

[bergmannfrank]

After a fresh install of my Magic Mirror I noticed a unexpected behavior with the calendar module.

I was used to multi day events always showing the current day and not the start day of the event. After the new installation, however, the standard calendar shows the start day. Can this be configured?

[sdetweil]

@bergmannfrank if you use the parm to split multiday

[bergmannfrank]

@sdetweil Thanks, but I don’t want to split multiday events. The list of events gets spammed with a bunch of entries.

Or is it possible to show only the actual split entry and hide the other ones in the future?

[sdetweil]

@bergmannfrank you can try showOngoing:true
check the spelling

[bergmannfrank]

@sdetweil There is a “hideOngoing”-option, which is default false. I can’t see how this effects sliced multiday events. In my config I didn’t change the parameter.

Seems this bug in older versions was a great feature to me. ;) And now it’s fixed and I don’t like it.

Thanks for your ideas.

[sdetweil]

@bergmannfrank set the option to true

false and split false means we show start and only start
showEnd: true means we show start AND END on the same event (timeformat : "absolute:)
split means we show 1 of, 2 of, 3 of on the current and forward days

showOngoing(default true)/hideOngoing:(default false) means we show an in progress event going TODAY
ONLY for timeFormat: “relative” (ends in xxx days/hours)

calendar has lots of options for lots of peoples needs, set what you need

[bergmannfrank]

@sdetweil Sorry, but there is no showOngoing in the docs, only a hideOngoing. This parameter is default false - and I don’t want to change it because it effects all kinds of events.

And as I mentioned, I don’t like to get my calendar which has a lot of multidays event spammed with a bunch of entries.

I appreciate your help. It seems the config options don’t fit my special needs at this point.

[sdetweil]

@bergmannfrank how did you update? wipe sd and start new, or use my upgrade script to upgrade MM??

if my script,
can you look at the ~/MagicMirror/installers/upgrade.log file
go to the end and search backwards for

upgrading from version

I want to know which version you were last running. .

I just checked this release, next in flight, and with my cal fixes, all show event start date for a multi-day event which is currently running… in timeFormat:“absolute”

[bergmannfrank]

@sdetweil My old installation crushed and I started with a fresh SD card and a different Pi than before.

I don’t remember the version but it must be a least four-ish years old. My last backup was in November 2020.

[sdetweil]

@bergmannfrank ok, we are at 2.29, - 16 (4 years, 4 releases) makes it about 2.13

I’ll try to look later

[bergmannfrank]

@sdetweil Thanks again!

May be this helps in your search:
https://github.com/MagicMirrorOrg/MagicMirror/pull/2895
https://github.com/MagicMirrorOrg/MagicMirror/issues/2685

[sdetweil]

@bergmannfrank does help… that code section has changed…

I am working on cal fixes for next release… let me look at what needs to be done

[sdetweil]

@bergmannfrank ok, lets try my test cal fixes

cd ~/MagicMirror 
git fetch origin pull/3587/head:withfixes
git checkout withfixes
npm install

then run MagicMirror
let me know

[sdetweil]

@bergmannfrank
Any chance you can test this?

[sdetweil]

@bergmannfrank can you test this?