<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Looking for feedback and advice]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Hello, I started out this journey dabbling around and getting in WAY over my head. (I’m still in way over my head, but no longer scared to be here. I had originally setup my mirrorless Family board by resizing regions and while trying to fine tune my board I was running into all kinds of issues. SO I wiped MM from my pi and started over. I’m looking for advice on my current setup (advice on things I did wrong and how I could do better) Also wondering in the agenda side of things, can I somehow make the event line longer on top to have less wrap around…can I also somehow show the location of the event if there is one?  Last but not least, I can’t seem to extend the MMM-CalendarEXT3 module to the bottom of the screen, is there some sort of limit to the size of it that I haven’t come across yet?  While in Dev model, when I try to select the agenda module, I can only select the EXT3 module because of the Olympics sizes movements I went through to move the module in the spot it is in currently. Should I have done that differently?</p>
<p dir="auto">TLDR;</p>
<ol>
<li>Advice (right or wrong) on current setup</li>
<li>Extend the even name for less wrap-around</li>
<li>Show Location (if any) of event? (line below possible?)</li>
<li>Extend EXT3 to bottom of screen in this position</li>
<li>Reconfigure EXT3 module correctly?</li>
</ol>
<p dir="auto">Config.js:</p>
<pre><code>timeFormat: 12,
	units: "imperial",

	modules: [
		{
			module: "clock",
			position: "top_left"
		},
		{
			module: "calendar",
			header: "Today's Events",
		        position: "top_left",
			config: {
				limitDays: 2,
				colored: false,
				coloredSymbol: true,
				wrapEvents: true,
				showEnd: false,
				fontSize: "22px",
				fade: false,
				fetchInterval: 60000,
				eventHeight: "22px",
				hideTime: true,
				calendars:[
					{
						url: "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/XXXXX/XXXXX/basic.ics",
						name: "jointAccount",
						symbol: "fa-regular fa-calendar",
						color: '#008000',
						},
					{
						url: "webcal://www.bfccps.org/servlet/ICalServlet?id=4",
						name: "bfccps",
						symbol: "school",
						color: '#644117',
						},
					{
						url: "http://ical-cdn.teamsnap.com/team_schedule/XXXXX.ics",
						name: "soccer",
						symbol: "fa-regular fa-futbol",
						color: "blue",
						},
					{
						url: "http://ical-cdn.teamsnap.com/team_schedule/XXXXX.ics",
						name: "soccer",
						symbol: "fa-regular fa-futbol",
						color: "red",

						},
					]
			}
		},
		{
  			module: 'MMM-AnyList',
  			position: 'bottom_left',
  			config: {
    				email: 'XXX@gmail.com',
    				password: 'XXXX',
    				list: "Dylan's Chore List",
    				// Optional, values listed are the defaults
    				onlyShowUnchecked: true,
				wrapEvents: true,
    				maxItemsInList: 10,
    				fade: false,
				trimText: false,
				highlightAlternateRows: true,    				
				animationSpeed: 2000,
    				showCategories: false,
    				showQuantities: false,
				textAlign: 'left',
  				}
		},
		{
			module: "calendar",
		      //position: "top_center",
			config: {
				mode: "month",				
				colored: true,
				coloredSymbol: true,
				wrapEvents:  true,
				fadePoint: 0.11,
				fetchInterval: 60000,
				broadcastEvents: true,
				broadcastPastEvents: true,
				maximumEntries: '10000',
				fontSize: '20px',
				eventHeight: '22px',
				calendars:[
					{
						url: "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/XXXXX/XXXXX/basic.ics",
						name: "jointAccount",
						symbol: "fa-regular fa-calendar",
						color: '#008000',
						},
					{
						url: "webcal://www.bfccps.org/servlet/ICalServlet?id=4",
						name: "bfccps",
						symbol: "school",
						color: '#644117',
						},
					{
						url: "http://ical-cdn.teamsnap.com/team_schedule/XXXXX.ics",
						name: "soccer",
						symbol: "fa-regular fa-futbol",
						color: "blue",
						},
					{
						url: "http://ical-cdn.teamsnap.com/team_schedule/XXXXX.ics",
						name: "soccer",
						symbol: "fa-regular fa-futbol",
						color: "red",
						},
				]
			}
		},
		{
			module: "MMM-CalendarExt3",
  		        position: "top_center",
  			title: "",
  			config: {				
				mode: "week",
				instanceId: "WeekCalendar",
				weekIndex:0,
				weeksInView:4,
				maxEventLines: 8,
				refreshInterval: 60000,
				animationSpeed: 0,
    				firstDayOfWeek: 0,
   				calendarSet: [],
				useWeather: false,
				fontSize: "24px",
				eventHeight: "22px",
				}
		},
		{
			module: "weather",
			position: "bottom_left",
			config: {
				weatherProvider: "openmeteo",
				type: "current",
				lat: 42.040143,
				lon: -71.452461
			}
		},
		{
			module: "weather",
			position: "bottom_left",
			header: "Weather Forecast",
			config: {
				weatherProvider: "openmeteo",
				type: "forecast",
				lat: 42.040143,
				lon: -71.452461,
				fade: false
			}
		},
	]
};

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

</code></pre>
<p dir="auto">Custom.css:</p>
<pre><code>:root {
  --color-text: #999;
  --color-text-dimmed: #888;
  --color-text-bright: #fff;
  --color-background: black;

  --font-primary: "Roboto Condensed";
  --font-secondary: "Roboto";

  --font-size: 24px;
  --font-size-small: 0.75rem;
  --gap-body-top: 0px;
  --gap-body-right: 0px;
  --gap-body-bottom: 0px;
  --gap-body-left: 0px;
  --gap-modules: 0px;
 }
  
 /* Global Settings */
	body {
    margin: 0;
    background: rgb(0 0 0 / 100%);
  }
  
  .MMM-CalendarExt3 .module-content {
    margin-left: 350px !important;
    height: 1500px !important;
    width: 1550px;
  }
  .MMM-AnyList {
   margin-bottom: 30px !important;
   }
   
   .clock {
 margin-bottom: 20px;
}
	.weather .module-content {
	width: 350px;
	}

	.calendar .module-content {
		width: 350px !important;
	}

</code></pre>
<p dir="auto"><img src="/assets/uploads/files/1743526124613-layout-clean.png" alt="Layout (clean).png" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" /></p>
<p dir="auto"><img src="/assets/uploads/files/1743526129195-layout-notes.png" alt="Layout (notes).png" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" /></p>
<p dir="auto"><img src="/assets/uploads/files/1743526133550-mmm-calendarext3-issue.png" alt="MMM-CalendarEXT3 issue.png" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" /></p>
]]></description><link>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/19589/looking-for-feedback-and-advice</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 05:55:44 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/19589.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 16:51:11 GMT</pubDate><ttl>60</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Looking for feedback and advice on Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:52:59 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/xsoldier2000" aria-label="Profile: Xsoldier2000">@<bdi>Xsoldier2000</bdi></a> the thing you see on github IS  a web page dynamically  constructed from a list of files in the project repository AND  a rendering of a readme if one is found, and some other github project mgmt services, issues, fixes, …</p>
]]></description><link>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/125573</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/125573</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[sdetweil]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:52:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Looking for feedback and advice on Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:49:41 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/xsoldier2000" aria-label="Profile: Xsoldier2000">@<bdi>Xsoldier2000</bdi></a> nobody reads the documentation!</p>
]]></description><link>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/125572</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/125572</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[sdetweil]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:49:41 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Looking for feedback and advice on Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:45:45 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/sdetweil" aria-label="Profile: sdetweil">@<bdi>sdetweil</bdi></a> said in <a href="/post/125569">Looking for feedback and advice</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p dir="auto">head - documents scripts and css files used on this page<br />
body - holds the displayable context. text, ,tables, graphs, images, etc</p>
</blockquote>
<p dir="auto">That makes sense now, as you can tell I’m not fully versed in the understanding of these things. Now I know.</p>
<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/sdetweil" aria-label="Profile: sdetweil">@<bdi>sdetweil</bdi></a> said in <a href="/post/125569">Looking for feedback and advice</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p dir="auto">when you say look at github, what do you mean?</p>
</blockquote>
<p dir="auto">I honestly didn’t even know it was showing the <a href="http://README.md" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">README.md</a> file until you brought it up and I just went back to see. (I associate <a href="https://github.com/MMRIZE/MMM-CalendarExt3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">https://github.com/MMRIZE/MMM-CalendarExt3</a> to a webpage, but it’s kind of a different setup. First real time using github ever)</p>
<p dir="auto">I’m the kind of guy that puts things together first, then when it doesn’t work right, I read the instructions…makes life … difficult sometimes.</p>
<p dir="auto">Thank you for all this info. It helps an old GI like me.</p>
]]></description><link>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/125571</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/125571</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Xsoldier2000]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:45:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Looking for feedback and advice on Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:30:00 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/xsoldier2000" aria-label="Profile: Xsoldier2000">@<bdi>Xsoldier2000</bdi></a> for your 3, you should indicate what module that property applies to.</p>
<p dir="auto">Ext3  css height property   not working…   well<br />
as you found ext3 calculates the size base on num event lines, event line height, number of calendar week rows shown, etc, all set with --xxx  css variables described in the module doc(readme file)</p>
<p dir="auto">which are all overridable (changable) in/using custom.css</p>
]]></description><link>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/125570</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/125570</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[sdetweil]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:30:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Looking for feedback and advice on Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:20:36 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/xsoldier2000" aria-label="Profile: Xsoldier2000">@<bdi>Xsoldier2000</bdi></a> when you say look at github, what do you mean? the module <a href="http://README.md" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">README.md</a> file is what is shown for the module github page. after git clone, you have that on your system and can view ut at any time</p>
<p dir="auto">for Ext3 it has  definitions and explanations of the css variables used to size the content, and calendar cells to hold the content</p>
<p dir="auto">MagicMirror is a web page, shown in a browser. all the content ( module output) is generated dynamically  by javascript code.</p>
<p dir="auto">an html page contains two major elements</p>
<p dir="auto">head - documents scripts and css files used on this page<br />
body - holds the displayable context. text, ,tables, graphs, images, etc</p>
<p dir="auto">the design of that page can be seen in the index.html file in the MagicMirror folder</p>
<p dir="auto">all the script and css files are added  by the MagicMirror runtime for each active module</p>
<p dir="auto">css/main.css holds the styling for the default page and modules<br />
including the size abd shspe of the page and spaces(regions) for module content</p>
<p dir="auto">as you have discovered the Ext3 family of modules is one of the most CSS configurable modules available</p>
]]></description><link>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/125569</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/125569</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[sdetweil]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:20:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Looking for feedback and advice on Thu, 03 Apr 2025 12:58:30 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Posting this for any newcomers like me that weren’t really pointed in any direction, and don’t know the terminology in which to search for answers.</p>
<ol>
<li>Advice (right or wrong) on current setup<br />
<em>A: I don’t really have answer for this, I know what I did to correct my issues, but don’t fully understand the why of it all.</em></li>
<li>Extend the event name for less wrap-around<br />
<em>A: maxTitleLength, maxLocationTitleLength &amp; maxLocationEvents (look at the Config details on the github of the module) is what worked for me.</em></li>
<li>Show Location (if any) of event? (line below possible?)<br />
<em>A: showLocation: true,</em></li>
<li>Extend EXT3 to bottom of screen in this position<br />
<em>A: this took a lot longer to figure out, but using Dev mode is what made me figure it out. I was trying to use a height: XXXXXpx; (in the .css module content) which was making the screen jump up like half a page…in Dev mode, found the body module was way oversized, changed the height parameter to 100% and that fixed the jumping issue, then figured out in the EXT3 module, I could increase the maxEventLines to expand the module to the bottom of the screen (look at the Config details on the github of the module), works perfect now.</em></li>
<li>Reconfigure EXT3 module correctly?<br />
<em>Answered in #4 above.</em></li>
</ol>
<p dir="auto">***<em><strong>I still don’t know what the body is or does, but I now know it should match your screensize (i believe) There is also something in the EXT3 module that makes the height parameter not work which is probably by design, because stretching a module would probably make it look weird, thankfully adding event lines is builtin. Going back and reading all the modules on github made me figure everything out. Uploading the final result.</strong></em> ***<br />
<img src="/assets/uploads/files/1743684496367-d2231c40-cef2-4075-bffd-4ed56f44c5bc-image.png" alt="d2231c40-cef2-4075-bffd-4ed56f44c5bc-image.png" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" /></p>
]]></description><link>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/125568</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/125568</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Xsoldier2000]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 12:58:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Looking for feedback and advice on Tue, 01 Apr 2025 21:41:02 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/sdetweil" aria-label="Profile: sdetweil">@<bdi>sdetweil</bdi></a>  Agenda view on left side is default calendar (can see in my posted config)<br />
Main month calendar on right side of screen is EXT3.</p>
]]></description><link>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/125557</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/125557</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Xsoldier2000]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 21:41:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Looking for feedback and advice on Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:32:20 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/xsoldier2000" aria-label="Profile: Xsoldier2000">@<bdi>Xsoldier2000</bdi></a> you said cant extend ext3, i said look at…<br />
then you said only using the default calendar</p>
<p dir="auto">so now i am confused</p>
]]></description><link>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/125554</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/125554</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[sdetweil]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:32:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Looking for feedback and advice on Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:28:48 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/sdetweil" aria-label="Profile: sdetweil">@<bdi>sdetweil</bdi></a> said in <a href="/post/125551">Looking for feedback and advice</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/xsoldier2000" aria-label="Profile: Xsoldier2000">@<bdi>Xsoldier2000</bdi></a> but???</p>
<blockquote>
<p dir="auto">Last but not least, I can’t seem to extend the MMM-CalendarEXT3 module to the bottom of the screen,</p>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<p dir="auto">Not sure what you mean here…I’ve tried expanding the height, but it doesn’t seem to go past a certain hard point on the screen. Is there a limit? (I wouldn’t like to add another week on the calendar, just stretch it down.)</p>
]]></description><link>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/125552</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/125552</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Xsoldier2000]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:28:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Looking for feedback and advice on Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:24:34 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/sdetweil" aria-label="Profile: sdetweil">@<bdi>sdetweil</bdi></a> said in <a href="/post/125548">Looking for feedback and advice</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/xsoldier2000" aria-label="Profile: Xsoldier2000">@<bdi>Xsoldier2000</bdi></a> you can disable the ext3 while you adjust others</p>
</blockquote>
<p dir="auto">Ended up commenting out the position to do that. Just didn’t know if the Calendar module was acting the way it should.</p>
]]></description><link>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/125553</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/125553</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Xsoldier2000]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:24:34 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Looking for feedback and advice on Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:24:20 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/xsoldier2000" aria-label="Profile: Xsoldier2000">@<bdi>Xsoldier2000</bdi></a> but???</p>
<blockquote>
<p dir="auto">Last but not least, I can’t seem to extend the MMM-CalendarEXT3 module to the bottom of the screen,</p>
</blockquote>
]]></description><link>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/125551</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/125551</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[sdetweil]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:24:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Looking for feedback and advice on Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:20:42 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/sdetweil" aria-label="Profile: sdetweil">@<bdi>sdetweil</bdi></a> Ahhh, I am just using the OOTB Calendar module, I’ll look into the EXT3 Agenda module. Thank you!</p>
]]></description><link>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/125550</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/125550</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Xsoldier2000]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:20:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Looking for feedback and advice on Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:14:23 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/xsoldier2000" aria-label="Profile: Xsoldier2000">@<bdi>Xsoldier2000</bdi></a> there were a couple topics on ext3 agenda more size recently</p>
]]></description><link>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/125549</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/125549</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[sdetweil]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:14:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Looking for feedback and advice on Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:12:58 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/xsoldier2000" aria-label="Profile: Xsoldier2000">@<bdi>Xsoldier2000</bdi></a> you can disable the ext3 while you adjust others</p>
]]></description><link>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/125548</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/125548</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[sdetweil]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:12:58 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>