MMM-CalendarEXT3 and Default Calendar Display

jesseyz

@sdetweil excellent, I’ll give it a shot. Thank you

jesseyz

@sdetweil Good morning.

This solution did not work for me. I would like to continue to use the default calendar, but only show 2 of the 4 calendars I have plugged into it.

I initially tried to give each calendar a different position then comment out the calendars I didn’t want to show but it ended up hiding all default calendars. My current temporary solution is to have everything show on all calendars since the CalendarEXT3 being fully populated is most important. The default calendar showing 2 of the 4 calendars is the “nice to have.”

Here’s my configuration for these modules (with personal info redacted):

{
			module: "calendar",
			header: "Family",
			position: "bottom_left",
			config: {
				calendars: [
					{
						symbol: "calendar-check",
						maximumEntries: "30",
						url: "Family calendar URL"
					},
					{
						symbol: "dumbbell",
						url: "Gym Schedule URL"
						//position: "bottom_right"
					},
					{
						symbol: "user-nurse",
						url: "Work schedule URL"

						//position: "bottom_right"
					},
					{
						url: "https://ics.calendarlabs.com/76/mm3137/US_Holidays.ics"
					}
				]
			}
		},
		{
			module: 'MMM-CalendarExt3',
			position: "upper_third",
			title: "Family Calendar",
			config: {
				mode: "month",
				fontSize: '22px',
				eventTransformer: (event) => {
					if (event.title.includes("Dad")) {
						event.color = "blue";
					} else if (event.title.includes("Mom")) {
						event.color = "yellow";
					} else if (event.title.includes("Kid #1")) {
						event.color = "red";
					} else if (event.title.includes("Kid #2")) {
						event.color = "green";
					}
					
					return event;
				}

sdetweil

@jesseyz when the default calendar has multiple URLs they are ALWAYS displayed together.
so all shown, or not

you can have multiple instances of the default calendar

{
module: "calendar"
.
.
.
},
{
 module:"calendar"
.
.
.
}

so maybe in your case, you have 2 instances
with 2 cal urls each, and one with position, and the other commented out
or 4 instances, 1 url each, and 2 commented out

they all broadcast , and cal ext3 processes just like normal

jesseyz

@sdetweil this was the key, I wasn’t aware having multiple instances was ok. I chose 2 instances, 1 hidden position and 1 not. This was successful!

Thank you for all of your help and for your setup/update scripts. I use a Pi Zero W2 so making config changes and then testing can be somewhat of a pain with the slow refresh/reboot time.

One day I’ll bite the bullet and get a fancier Pi but this one does the trick for the time being!

sdetweil

@jesseyz when you get that snazzier pi/sbc, you can use my backup/restore to move MM config and modules between devices… (and os’s…)
https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror-backup-restore