I wish there was a module that would show local events...

joela85

That’s a good idea, quick thought…
Can’t you do this using the calendar or news module?

I had a quick search at local events in my area and found two different websites in my local area with key events.

One website you could export all the events into a your own google calendar or ical. you could then tailor these to show up in a different colour or start with a different heading?

The other website had their events under and RS feed and you could show the RSS feed up on the news module?

Do you have something like that for your area?

cowboysdude

@joela85 great ideas :)

But…

https://github.com/mykle1/MMM-Events

:)

joela85

That looks spot on. I think I’ll be adding that module later.
Requesting an API key, what do you put in the “Application URL” box etc

Mykle1

@joela85 said in I wish there was a module that would show local events...:

Requesting an API key, what do you put in the “Application URL” box etc

You can just use the url of this forum.

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/

Mykle1

@cowboysdude said in I wish there was a module that would show local events...:

https://github.com/mykle1/MMM-Events

Oh, no you d’int! You old some beach! ;-)

Well, seeing as you wished for it, and seeing as you forced my hand, here it is.

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/2628/mmm-events

Mykle1

Shameless plug.

cowboysdude

@Mykle1 said in I wish there was a module that would show local events...:

Shameless plug.

NO such thing… LOL

joela85

Tried to get this working, only showing “Upcoming Events…” text on the mirror.

This is my config, can you see why it might not be loading any events?

 {
                    module: 'MMM-Events',
                    position: 'bottom_left',
                    config: {
                        city: "Leamington Spa, United Kingdom",            // Your City
                        eventType: "music, comedy, performing_arts, sports, food, food_beer, outdoors_recreation",                 // Choose from Events List below
                        when: "Future",                 // "All", "Future", "Past", "Today", "Last Week", "This Week", "Next week", and months by name, e.g. "October"
                        mode: "noFrame",                   // "Frame" or "noFrame" (around picture)
                        apikey: "verified_api",
                        rotateInterval: 2 * 60 * 1000,     // New Event Appears every 2 minutes
                        useHeader: false,                  // Set to true if you want a header
                        header: "",
                        animationSpeed: 3000,              // Event fades in and out
                        picture: true,                     // true, false = no image
                    }
...

Mykle1

{
                    module: 'MMM-Events',
                    position: 'top_left',
                    config: {
                        city: "Leamington, England",            // Your City
                        eventType: "music",                 // Choose from Events List below
                        when: "Future",                 // "All", "Future", "Past", "Today", "Last Week", "This Week", "Next week", and months by name, e.g. "October"
                        mode: "noFrame",                   // "Frame" or "noFrame" (around picture)
                        apikey: "YOUR API KEY",
                        rotateInterval: 2 * 60 * 1000,     // New Event Appears every 2 minutes
                        useHeader: false,                  // Set to true if you want a header
                        header: "",
                        animationSpeed: 3000,              // Event fades in and out
                        picture: true,                     // true, false = no image
                    }
		},

This will work. More info to follow shortly . . .

Mykle1

You can only choose one eventType at a time. I’ll look into multiple entries when I have the time to do so. With Leamington as your city, there is limited data from the API, especially the pictures. If you choose a larger city nearby, say Birmingham, you will have much better results, as the data is more prevalent.

Leamington does return events, but if you don’t like the fallback picture appearing so often (it does that when the API returns no picture) you can choose picture: false, in the config.

Please let me know how you like the module.