calendar *.ics file from local path

[co8]

Hi,
Is it possible to use in config.js file a calendar from e.g. /home/…/birthdays.ics or something alike?
I tried various things, but nothing worked yet.

Any sugestions?

[MichMich]

Officially it’s not supported. There might be a workaround, but I can’t help you with that.

Of course you can always just put the local file behind a simple webserver to feed it using an URL.

[co8]

How should that look like?

I tried it with my webserver on qnap nas. I copied the ics files into the web root folder and tried to access them as following

https://serverip:8081/birthdays.ics

but that didn’t work either.
I couldn’t find a solution to access my owncloud calendars directly, so I have to extract them to a ics file and try to host them as that.

[MichMich]

That should just work. Maybe there is an other issue with your calendar file or network.

[co8]

Well, I can access them with firefox and it shows me to open or download them.
But it won’t work with mm2.

[Shockwave]

@co8
Yes, I got it working after a bit of experimenting. It wouldn’t read the ics file from other places like /MagicMirror which I assumed to be the root of the webserver.

I created a new directory in /MagicMirror/modules, named birthdays, and placed by birthdays.ics file in there.

Then in my config I added a 2nd calendar:

				{
					symbol: 'birthday-cake',
					url: 'webcal://localhost:8080/modules/birthdays/birthdays.ics'
				}

[co8]

Thank you shockwave.

This works like a charm.

[co8]

How can I set the topic to solved?

[KirAsh4]

I did it for you. For future reference, you will have to set the topic as a question first, then you can change it later to solved. On the bottom right of the posts, there are three dots in a vertical line. Click on that to change the topic to a question (which will mark it 'Unsolved'), then when you’re ready to change it, click on the three dots again and you’ll have an option to set it to 'Solved'.