Calendar modification

00conman

Sorry if I shouldn’t put this here, but I wanted to show a quick tutorial to link up a google calendar to your mirror. So, here it is…

How to link up a google calendar account

Access google calendars and go to settings
At the top go to the Calendars tab
Select the calendar with your google name on it
On the new page find the Calendar Address tab
Click on ICAL to the right
Copy the link
7.Find your Config.js file under /MagicMirror/config
Scroll down to your calendar module or make a new calendar module by copying and pasting the old module or making changes to the current calendar module
Side note: the modules will display in the order you put them in so whatever module you want displayed first will have to go before the other calendar modules
Input the link and make your new module look like this
{
module: ‘calendar’,
header: ‘Personal Calender’,
position: ‘top_left’,
config: {
calendars: [
{
symbol: 'calendar-check-o ',
url: ‘insert link here’
}
]
}
},
Then save and exit and now you have a google calendar linked to your mirror

Again a small side not make sure that the spacing is correct else you might make an irreparable error. But, as always make a copy of the config before you change it. Hope you guys have fun with this.

MichMich

Thank you very much! Maybe you can add it to the Wiki on github?

00conman

Where do I go to do that?

MichMich

https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/wiki/_new

00conman

@MichMich I tried the link and I just get an 404 error. If you would be so kind as to look into this or if you just want put it on the wiki yourself I’m fine with that.

KirAsh4

Link works for me … unless something changed between when you posted your response and now …

garnett

attention!
this works only if the calendar is shared to public!

KirAsh4

@garnett, both public and private Google calendars work. I have both displayed on mine.

garnett

@KirAsh4
uh yes, sorry! thats right. i was confused by the message from the google calendar.

works with private and public ;)

aarinsingh

Can somebody please post their config file with the maximumNumberOfDays line inserted. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong but everytime I try to adjust this I crash my config file. Everything else is working perfect.

Thanks

MichMich

@aarinsingh Could you copy paste your config including the maximumNumberOfDays (so I can try to find what you’re doing wrong). Don’t forget to remove sensitive data.

brad

Here is my info @aarinsingh , it doesn’t crash but it is also not limiting the number of days. From what I can see at a quick glance is that this was using a method that may have been replaced in the load process for this module, because it seems to only be using the default for this setting. I may follow to code later and see how this is loading and why my setting is being ignored.

{
			module: 'calendar',
			header: 'Events',
			position: 'top_left',
			maximumNumberOfDays: 7,
			config: {
				calendars: [
					{
						symbol: 'calendar-check-o ',
						url: 'https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/your-info'
					}
				]
			}
		},

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Wilco89

Put it after config: { and it will work

MichMich

maximumNumberOfDays should be part of the config object:

{
			module: 'calendar',
			header: 'Events',
			position: 'top_left',
			config: {
                                maximumNumberOfDays: 7,
				calendars: [
					{
						symbol: 'calendar-check-o ',
						url: 'https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/your-info'
					}
				]
			}
		},

brad

That makes perfect sense. :) sorry didn’t catch that…

MagicCrumps1

@KirAsh4 Weird. I had to make mine public or else the dashboard wont be able to display saying “No Events”

KirAsh4

@MagicCrumps1, perhaps you were using the wrong URL? There’s both a public and a private one. If you use the public URL, then you must also set your calendar to public view. But the private URL has the authentication key in it. No need to make the calendar public.

MagicCrumps1

@KirAsh4 Of course that worked. Thanks for the silver bullet

00conman

Hey guys sorry I’ve been away so I haven’t seen all these posts but I would recommend putting the calendar in monthly mode so events to disappear prematurely.

KirAsh4

@00conman, care to explain what you mean?