2.30.0 and MMM-CalendarExt3 missing calendars

sdetweil

@redfishbluefish timing may have changed.
can you look at the output of npm start and see if the events were broadcast

if using pm2, then pm2 logs --lines=xxxx

xxxx is the number of most recent lines to show, default 15

ext3 tries to wait and not flash every time events arrive .
there is a delay parm for next time to check, its fairly long

redfishbluefish

@sdetweil I updated my docker server-only install to 2.30.0 to test on. The config.js file is almost identical to what I have on my RPi and this is what I see after restarting MagicMirror:

[2025-01-01 17:45:14.379] [LOG]   Starting MagicMirror: v2.30.0 
[2025-01-01 17:45:14.397] [LOG]   Loading config ... 
[2025-01-01 17:45:14.400] [LOG]   config template file not exists, no envsubst 
[2025-01-01 17:45:14.790] [INFO]  Checking config file /opt/magic_mirror/config/config.js ... 
[2025-01-01 17:45:14.889] [INFO]  Your configuration file doesn't contain syntax errors :) 
[2025-01-01 17:45:14.890] [INFO]  Checking modules structure configuration ... 
[2025-01-01 17:45:14.971] [INFO]  Your modules structure configuration doesn't contain errors :) 
[2025-01-01 17:45:15.119] [LOG]   Loading module helpers ... 
[2025-01-01 17:45:15.123] [LOG]   No helper found for module: alert. 
[2025-01-01 17:45:15.140] [LOG]   Initializing new module helper ... 
[2025-01-01 17:45:15.141] [LOG]   Module helper loaded: MMM-Wheel 
[2025-01-01 17:45:15.146] [LOG]   No helper found for module: MMM-Carousel. 
[2025-01-01 17:45:15.194] [LOG]   Initializing new module helper ... 
[2025-01-01 17:45:15.195] [LOG]   Module helper loaded: updatenotification 
[2025-01-01 17:45:15.198] [LOG]   No helper found for module: clock. 
[2025-01-01 17:45:15.211] [LOG]   Initializing new module helper ... 
[2025-01-01 17:45:15.211] [LOG]   Module helper loaded: MMM-UCDSB 
[2025-01-01 17:45:15.214] [LOG]   No helper found for module: weather. 
[2025-01-01 17:45:15.391] [LOG]   Initializing new module helper ... 
[2025-01-01 17:45:15.392] [LOG]   Module helper loaded: calendar 
[2025-01-01 17:45:15.396] [LOG]   No helper found for module: MMM-CalendarExt3. 
[2025-01-01 17:45:15.397] [LOG]   All module helpers loaded. 
[2025-01-01 17:45:15.406] [LOG]   Starting server on port 8080 ...  
[2025-01-01 17:45:15.409] [WARN]  You're using a full whitelist configuration to allow for all IPs 
[2025-01-01 17:45:15.427] [LOG]   Server started ... 
[2025-01-01 17:45:15.428] [LOG]   Connecting socket for: MMM-Wheel 
[2025-01-01 17:45:15.429] [LOG]   Starting module helper: MMM-Wheel 
[2025-01-01 17:45:15.429] [LOG]   Connecting socket for: updatenotification 
[2025-01-01 17:45:15.430] [LOG]   Starting module helper: updatenotification 
[2025-01-01 17:45:15.431] [LOG]   Connecting socket for: MMM-UCDSB 
[2025-01-01 17:45:15.431] [LOG]   Starting module helper: MMM-UCDSB 
[2025-01-01 17:45:15.432] [LOG]   Connecting socket for: calendar 
[2025-01-01 17:45:15.432] [LOG]   Starting node helper for: calendar 
[2025-01-01 17:45:15.432] [LOG]   Sockets connected & modules started ... 
[2025-01-01 17:45:15.433] [INFO]  
>>>   Ready to go! Please point your browser to: http://0.0.0.0:8080   <<< 
[2025-01-01 17:45:15.669] [INFO]  System information:
### SYSTEM:   manufacturer: ; model: Docker Container; virtual: false
### OS:       platform: linux; distro: Debian GNU/Linux; release: 12; arch: x64; kernel: 5.15.49-linuxkit
### VERSIONS: electron: undefined; used node: 22.12.0; installed node: 22.12.0; npm: 10.9.0; pm2: 
### OTHER:    timeZone: America/Toronto; ELECTRON_ENABLE_GPU: undefined

I notice that there are no calendar events being broadcast at all (which likely makes sense since nothing has attempted to load the page yet).

After loading the site I get (calendar urls deleted):

[2025-01-01 17:48:40.701] [LOG]   Create new calendarfetcher for url: Holidays.ics - Interval: 3600000 
[2025-01-01 17:48:40.786] [LOG]   Create new calendarfetcher for url: basic1.ics - Interval: 3600000 
[2025-01-01 17:48:40.791] [LOG]   Create new calendarfetcher for url: calendarId=1509643 - Interval: 3600000 
[2025-01-01 17:48:40.797] [LOG]   Create new calendarfetcher for url: basic2.ics - Interval: 3600000 
[2025-01-01 17:48:40.803] [LOG]   Create new calendarfetcher for url: basic3.ics - Interval: 3600000 
[2025-01-01 17:48:40.891] [INFO]  updatenotification: Updater Class Loaded! 
[2025-01-01 17:48:40.892] [INFO]  updatenotification: Checking PM2 using... 
[2025-01-01 17:48:40.892] [INFO]  updatenotification: Running in docker container, not using PM2 ... 
[2025-01-01 17:48:40.893] [INFO]  Checking git for module: MMM-Wheel 
[2025-01-01 17:48:40.895] [INFO]  Checking git for module: MMM-Carousel 
[2025-01-01 17:48:40.920] [INFO]  Checking git for module: MMM-UCDSB 
[2025-01-01 17:48:40.942] [INFO]  Checking git for module: MMM-CalendarExt3 
[2025-01-01 17:48:41.003] [INFO]  Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 34 events from Holidays.ics. 
[2025-01-01 17:48:41.021] [INFO]  Checking git for module: MagicMirror 
[2025-01-01 17:48:41.053] [INFO]  Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 61 events from calendarId=1509643. 
[2025-01-01 17:48:41.112] [INFO]  Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 3 events from basic3.ics. 
[2025-01-01 17:48:41.826] [INFO]  Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 294 events from basic1.ics. 
[2025-01-01 17:48:42.801] [INFO]  Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 282 events from basic2.ics.

The basic3.ics calendar event show in MMM-CalendarExt3 but nothing else.

redfishbluefish

This post looks like a similar issue: https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/19273/mmm-calendarext3-not-showing-events-on-calendar-but-does-on-list-after-2-30-update

sdetweil

@redfishbluefish ok, cal module is working

ext3 is done all in browser,
open the developer window, ctrl-shift-i,
select the console tab
add ext to the filter field

sdetweil

@redfishbluefish you both reported at approximately same time

redfishbluefish

@sdetweil I get what’s in the screenshot in the console but CalendarExt3 is loaded in the browser correctly.

Screenshot 2025-01-01 at 6.35.29 PM.png

Note that this looks identical to what I see when running 2.29.0.

sdetweil

@redfishbluefish hm… I have 3 instances , on pages, with multiple cals.
all three instances are working…

I checked was downlevel (on 1.8.5), now on 1.9.4 latest… no change. all working as expected. I added a calendar fix reported by author, about calendar symbols in an array

symbol: [ “foo”, “bar” ]

but you aren’t seeing any exceptions

redfishbluefish

@sdetweil thanks for looking at this. I’d love to see an error of some sorts - much easier to track down! :)

I’ll strip down to a basic config.js and see if I can find something that works for me and maybe that will give some clues.

sdetweil

@redfishbluefish all you have to do is add
disabled:true,
after all the modules to turn off

sdetweil

@redfishbluefish
or copy the sample config
add the cal and ext3 stuff

then
export MM_CONFIG_FILE=config/xxxxx
npm start
xxxx is the new config name

MMRIZE

@redfishbluefish
To make things simple;

Disable all other modules except clock, calendar, MMM-CalendarExt3.

If you still have issue or found any error log (front-end log in your browser, not back-end log in your terminal), report me.

However, in my test, it works on the new installation of MM 2.30.

redfishbluefish

@MMRIZE I’m running a server-only instance in docker for testing now with this config.js:

let config = {
	address: "0.0.0.0",
	port: 8080,
	basePath: "/",
	ipWhitelist: [],
	useHttps: false,
	httpsPrivateKey: "",
	httpsCertificate: "",
	language: "en",
	locale: "en-US",
	logLevel: ["INFO", "LOG", "WARN", "ERROR"],
	timeFormat: 24,
	units: "metric",

	modules: [
		{
			module: "clock",
			position: "top_left",
			config: {
				timeFormat: 12,
			},
		},
		{
			module: "calendar",
			position: "top_right",
			config: {
				broadcastPastEvents: true, // <= IMPORTANT to see past events
				defaultSymbol: "square",
				calendars: [
					{
						url: "https://ics.calendarlabs.com/39/f7480acf/Canada_Holidays.ics",
						name: "can_holiday", // <= RECOMMENDED to assign name
						color: "crimson", // <= RECOMMENDED to assign color
					},
				],
			},
		},
		{
			module: "MMM-CalendarExt3",
			position: "bottom_bar",
			title: "",
			config: {
				mode: "week",
				weeksInView: 4,
				weekIndex: 0,
				useWeather: false,
				displayEndTime: false,
				instanceId: "basicCalendar",
				maxEventLines: 6,
				fontSize: '24px',
				eventHeight: '26px',
				refreshInterval: 1000 * 60 * 5,
				useMarquee: false,
				calendarSet: ['can_holiday'],
  			}
		},
	]
};

/*************** DO NOT EDIT THE LINE BELOW ***************/
if (typeof module !== "undefined") { module.exports = config; }

Screenshot 2025-01-01 at 9.11.03 PM.png

Today (Jan 1) should have a full day event on CalendarExt3 for New Year’s Day (as seen in top right calendar output).

Front end logs:

[Info] Initializing MagicMirror². (main.js, line 582)
[Log] Loading core translation file: translations/en.json (translator.js, line 116)
[Log] Loading core translation fallback file: translations/en.json (translator.js, line 132)
[Log] Load script: modules/default/clock/clock.js (loader.js, line 178)
[Log] Module registered: clock (module.js, line 489)
[Info] Bootstrapping module: clock (loader.js, line 151)
[Log] Load script: vendor/node_modules/moment/min/moment-with-locales.js (loader.js, line 178)
[Log] Load script: vendor/node_modules/moment-timezone/builds/moment-timezone-with-data.js (loader.js, line 178)
[Log] Load script: vendor/node_modules/suncalc/suncalc.js (loader.js, line 178)
[Log] Scripts loaded for: clock (loader.js, line 155)
[Log] Load stylesheet: modules/default/clock/clock_styles.css (loader.js, line 194)
[Log] Styles loaded for: clock (loader.js, line 158)
[Log] Translations loaded for: clock (loader.js, line 161)
[Log] Load script: modules/default/calendar/calendar.js (loader.js, line 178)
[Log] Check MagicMirror² version for module 'calendar' - Minimum version:  2.1.0 - Current version: 2.30.0 (module.js, line 481)
[Log] Version is ok! (module.js, line 483)
[Log] Module registered: calendar (module.js, line 489)
[Info] Bootstrapping module: calendar (loader.js, line 151)
[Log] Load script: modules/default/calendar/calendarutils.js (loader.js, line 178)
[Log] File already loaded: moment.js (loader.js, line 254)
[Log] Scripts loaded for: calendar (loader.js, line 155)
[Log] Load stylesheet: modules/default/calendar/calendar.css (loader.js, line 194)
[Log] Load stylesheet: vendor/css/font-awesome.css (loader.js, line 194)
[Log] Styles loaded for: calendar (loader.js, line 158)
[Log] Translations loaded for: calendar (loader.js, line 161)
[Log] Load script: modules/MMM-CalendarExt3/MMM-CalendarExt3.js (loader.js, line 178)
[Log] Module registered: MMM-CalendarExt3 (module.js, line 489)
[Info] Bootstrapping module: MMM-CalendarExt3 (loader.js, line 151)
[Log] Scripts loaded for: MMM-CalendarExt3 (loader.js, line 155)
[Log] Load stylesheet: modules/MMM-CalendarExt3/MMM-CalendarExt3.css (loader.js, line 194)
[Log] Styles loaded for: MMM-CalendarExt3 (loader.js, line 158)
[Log] Translations loaded for: MMM-CalendarExt3 (loader.js, line 161)
[Log] Load stylesheet: css/custom.css (loader.js, line 194)
[Info] Starting module: clock (clock.js, line 43)
[Info] Starting module: calendar (calendar.js, line 96)
[Info] All modules started! (main.js, line 601)
[Info] sorting events count=0 (calendar.js, line 699)
[Info] slicing events total maxcount=10 (calendar.js, line 739)
[Warning] [CX3] Module is not prepared yet, wait a while. (MMM-CalendarExt3.js, line 390)
[Info] sorting events count=10 (calendar.js, line 699)
[Info] sorting events count=10 (calendar.js, line 699)
[Info] slicing events total maxcount=10 (calendar.js, line 739)
[Info] event fullday (calendar.js, line 506, x10)
[Info] sorting events count=10 (calendar.js, line 699)
[Info] sorting events count=10 (calendar.js, line 699)
[Info] slicing events total maxcount=10 (calendar.js, line 739)
[Info] event fullday (calendar.js, line 506, x10)

And for completeness, backend logs:

[2025-01-01 21:05:03.871] [LOG]   Starting MagicMirror: v2.30.0 
[2025-01-01 21:05:03.886] [LOG]   Loading config ... 
[2025-01-01 21:05:03.889] [LOG]   config template file not exists, no envsubst 
[2025-01-01 21:05:04.171] [INFO]  Checking config file /opt/magic_mirror/config/config.js ... 
[2025-01-01 21:05:04.216] [INFO]  Your configuration file doesn't contain syntax errors :) 
[2025-01-01 21:05:04.217] [INFO]  Checking modules structure configuration ... 
[2025-01-01 21:05:04.312] [INFO]  Your modules structure configuration doesn't contain errors :) 
[2025-01-01 21:05:04.412] [LOG]   Loading module helpers ... 
[2025-01-01 21:05:04.415] [LOG]   No helper found for module: clock. 
[2025-01-01 21:05:04.583] [LOG]   Initializing new module helper ... 
[2025-01-01 21:05:04.585] [LOG]   Module helper loaded: calendar 
[2025-01-01 21:05:04.590] [LOG]   No helper found for module: MMM-CalendarExt3. 
[2025-01-01 21:05:04.590] [LOG]   All module helpers loaded. 
[2025-01-01 21:05:04.600] [LOG]   Starting server on port 8080 ...  
[2025-01-01 21:05:04.602] [WARN]  You're using a full whitelist configuration to allow for all IPs 
[2025-01-01 21:05:04.612] [LOG]   Server started ... 
[2025-01-01 21:05:04.613] [LOG]   Connecting socket for: calendar 
[2025-01-01 21:05:04.614] [LOG]   Starting node helper for: calendar 
[2025-01-01 21:05:04.615] [LOG]   Sockets connected & modules started ... 
[2025-01-01 21:05:04.615] [INFO]  
>>>   Ready to go! Please point your browser to: http://0.0.0.0:8080   <<< 
[2025-01-01 21:05:04.744] [INFO]  System information:
### SYSTEM:   manufacturer: ; model: Docker Container; virtual: false
### OS:       platform: linux; distro: Debian GNU/Linux; release: 12; arch: x64; kernel: 5.15.49-linuxkit
### VERSIONS: electron: undefined; used node: 22.12.0; installed node: 22.12.0; npm: 10.9.0; pm2: 
### OTHER:    timeZone: America/Toronto; ELECTRON_ENABLE_GPU: undefined 
[2025-01-01 21:05:18.517] [LOG]   Create new calendarfetcher for url: https://ics.calendarlabs.com/39/f7480acf/Canada_Holidays.ics - Interval: 3600000 
[2025-01-01 21:05:18.779] [INFO]  Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 34 events from https://ics.calendarlabs.com/39/f7480acf/Canada_Holidays.ics. 
[2025-01-01 21:13:12.600] [LOG]   Use existing calendarfetcher for url: https://ics.calendarlabs.com/39/f7480acf/Canada_Holidays.ics 
[2025-01-01 21:13:12.601] [INFO]  Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 34 events from https://ics.calendarlabs.com/39/f7480acf/Canada_Holidays.ics. 
[2025-01-01 21:13:12.837] [INFO]  Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 34 events from https://ics.calendarlabs.com/39/f7480acf/Canada_Holidays.ics.

MMRIZE

@redfishbluefish
At first, I thought the New Year's Day event wasn’t visible because of a time zone issue (since I live in Germany, it’s already January 2nd here).

So, I downloaded the ICS file and changed the date of the New Year's Day event from 20250101 to 20250102 for testing. When I tested it, I encountered the same issue you mentioned!!!

I was quite confused, but to confirm, I used the following:

eventPayload: (events) => {
	console.log(events)
	return events
},

The eventPayload function is a great place to check what data has actually been broadcasted since it executes whenever events are received.

As a result…
??? New Year's Day isn’t being broadcasted?? I still don’t know why.

You can compare the display(left) and the console(right). In right, there is no New Year's Day event. the calendar module doesn’t emit that event. CX3 cannot draw undelivered events.

@sdetweil I think it’s better you check this symptom. the default calendar miss this event to broadcast, but don’t know why.

sdetweil

@MMRIZE ok will check it

if you change maxevents in default cal does it affect
the results

MMRIZE

I think I found it.

Add these into the default calendar module.

maximumEntries: 100,
maximumNumberOfDays: 365,

sdetweil

@MMRIZE the default
maxEntries is 10

!

sdetweil

@MMRIZE was in 2.29 as well

redfishbluefish

@sdetweil I can confirm that setting maximumEntries:100 allows events to show on CalendarExt3 for the specific “Holiday” calendar in my test config.js.

However, there’s something else that is coming into play. If I switch to a very busy calendar (300+ events) I actually get nothing showing up in CalendarExt3 but I can see that the events are in the calendar module. I used @MMRIZE eventPayload hook to dump to console and the events I’m getting start in Jan 2024.

Note: I switched to maximumEntries:20 for this test.

[Info] sorting events count=20 (calendar.js, line 699)
[Log] Array (20) (config.js, line 308)
0 {title: "Paradigm ", startDate: "1704891600000", endDate: "1704898800000", fullDayEvent: false, recurringEvent: true, …}
1 {title: "Paradigm ", startDate: "1706101200000", endDate: "1706108400000", fullDayEvent: false, recurringEvent: true, …}
2 {title: "Paradigm ", startDate: "1707310800000", endDate: "1707318000000", fullDayEvent: false, recurringEvent: true, …}
3 {title: "Paradigm ", startDate: "1708520400000", endDate: "1708527600000", fullDayEvent: false, recurringEvent: true, …}
4 {title: "Tour", startDate: "1709391600000", endDate: "1709394300000", fullDayEvent: false, recurringEvent: false, …}
5 {title: "Paradigm ", startDate: "1709730000000", endDate: "1709737200000", fullDayEvent: false, recurringEvent: true, …}
6 {title: "Paradigm ", startDate: "1710936000000", endDate: "1710943200000", fullDayEvent: false, recurringEvent: true, …}
7 {title: "Paradigm ", startDate: "1712145600000", endDate: "1712152800000", fullDayEvent: false, recurringEvent: true, …}
8 {title: "Paradigm ", startDate: "1713355200000", endDate: "1713362400000", fullDayEvent: false, recurringEvent: true, …}
9 {title: "Paradigm ", startDate: "1714564800000", endDate: "1714572000000", fullDayEvent: false, recurringEvent: true, …}
10 {title: "Paradigm ", startDate: "1715774400000", endDate: "1715781600000", fullDayEvent: false, recurringEvent: true, …}
11 {title: "Paradigm ", startDate: "1716984000000", endDate: "1716991200000", fullDayEvent: false, recurringEvent: true, …}
12 {title: "Paradigm ", startDate: "1718193600000", endDate: "1718200800000", fullDayEvent: false, recurringEvent: true, …}
13 {title: "Paradigm ", startDate: "1719403200000", endDate: "1719410400000", fullDayEvent: false, recurringEvent: true, …}
14 {title: "Paradigm ", startDate: "1720612800000", endDate: "1720620000000", fullDayEvent: false, recurringEvent: true, …}
15 {title: "Amie and Jeff’s Anniversary ", startDate: "1721116800000", endDate: "1721203200000", fullDayEvent: true, recurringEvent: true, …}
16 {title: "Paradigm ", startDate: "1721822400000", endDate: "1721829600000", fullDayEvent: false, recurringEvent: true, …}
17 {title: "Paradigm ", startDate: "1723032000000", endDate: "1723039200000", fullDayEvent: false, recurringEvent: true, …}
18 {title: "Paradigm ", startDate: "1724241600000", endDate: "1724248800000", fullDayEvent: false, recurringEvent: true, …}
19 {title: "Paradigm ", startDate: "1725451200000", endDate: "1725458400000", fullDayEvent: false, recurringEvent: true, …}

I then set broadcastPastEvents:false and I still get events from Jan 2024.

sdetweil

@redfishbluefish yes see my posts over here

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/19273/mmm-calendarext3-not-showing-events-on-calendar-but-does-on-list-after-2-30-update

redfishbluefish

@sdetweil I saw your note in the other thread about setting maximumEntries per calendar. I guess it means with this change there’s more thought required to determine the “right” values for each of the calendars you want to add.

Example: As of today, Jan 2, this configuration for the calendar will show the “New Year’s Day” event on CalendarExt3:

config: {
	broadcastPastEvents: true,
	calendars: [
	{
		url: "https://ics.calendarlabs.com/39/f7480acf/Canada_Holidays.ics",
		name: "can_holiday",
		maximumEntries: 16,
	},
},

The following configuration will not show the “New Year’s Day” event:

config: {
	broadcastPastEvents: true,
	calendars: [
	{
		url: "https://ics.calendarlabs.com/39/f7480acf/Canada_Holidays.ics",
		name: "can_holiday",
		maximumEntries: 15,
	},
},

If I set maximumNumberOfDays: 180 then it actually changes the start date of the event array sliding window and the “New Year’s Day” event will show if maximumEntries: 15.

Which makes me realize that the combination of:

broadcastPastEvents: true,
maximumNumberOfDays: 365, // default value

will actually return 2 years worth of events (assuming you don’t exceed the maximumEntries setting).