MMM-CalendarExt2

[A Former User]

@mrdenmark

can this module work with mmm-keybindings?i’d like to use the spacebar or similar to cycle through scenes

https://github.com/eouia/MMM-CalendarExt2/wiki/3.-Usage
If your module can emit customized notifications(e.g: CALEXT2_SCENE_NEXT or somethings), possible.
Or you can use MMM-NotificationTrigger to translate or relay original notification to specific customized target notification.

[jani.karna]

Hi! I’m trying to modify css. I created css/custom.css in MagicMirror/modules/MMM-CalendarExt2/ and tried doing modifications but none of them seem to do anything. Permissions for dir and file are 777.
Is there something I’m not understanding here?

for example I tried this in custom.css but it doesn’t work. This only works in MMM-CalendarExt.css file.

.CX2 .weekSlot.seq_0 .cellSlot .slotSubTitle {
  position:relative;
  top:-30px;
  left:40%;
}

Also, how can I get month calendar to only show 4 weeks instead of 5?

[A Former User]

@jani-karna
You don’t need to create your own css/custom.css under module directory. That file locates under your MagicMirror directory. css/custom.css is a global common file to be used by all the modules.

[jani.karna]

Oh, I see. Some modules seem to have their own directory, like MMM-CalendarExt for example. But I’ll use MagicMirror directory instead and try with that.

How about the other question? How can I get month calendar to show 4 weeks instead of 5?

[A Former User]

@jani-karna
MMM-CalendarExt was so an early and old module, so it has an improper structure. I’ll deprecate the css in some days.

For your Second Question.
month view could have 4~6 weeks in a table by the days. If you want to fix 4 weeks, use week view instead month

[jani.karna]

I’m not sure I understood. Is month view possible to set to show 4 weeks? I also changed to week mode but it only shows 3 weeks instead of 4.

[A Former User]

@jani-karna
You can set how many weeks to be shown with slotCount in week view.

[jani.karna]

@Sean
Thank you, that did the job.

Sorry to bother you with one more question: I have 1 scene and 1 view and 3 calendars. All of the calendars are in same week view. I’m trying to have all the 3 calendars to be visible at the same time in week view without rotating between them. I thought this is default with just one scene and one view.

[A Former User]

@jani-karna

I have 1 scene and 1 view and 3 calendars. All of the calendars are in same week view. I’m trying to have all the 3 calendars to be visible at the same time in week view without rotating between them. I thought this is default with just one scene and one view.

??? You mean your calendars are not shown in one week view? As you said, that is the default unless you set separate views.
If all of your events are not shown in a view, it might be maxItems issue. It is limited as max 100 events by default for the performance. In that case, you can set bigger value to maxItems of view.

[jani.karna]

@Sean
That is exactly what I’m saying. I don’t think I have that many events. Just in case I tried maxItems: 500, but that didn’t change anything.

My config looks like this:

module: 'MMM-CalendarExt2',
    		config: {
    				scenes: [
    						{
    							name: "DEFAULT",
    							views: [],
    						},
    				],
    				views: [
    						{
    							name: "Kaikki",
    							mode: "week",
    							slotCount: 4,
    							maxItems: 500,
    							fromNow: 0,
    							slotTitleFormat: "D.",
    							slotAltTitleFormat: "D. MMM",
    							position: "bottom_bar",
    							className: "monthClass",
    							hideOverflow: "false",
    							slotMaxHeight: "150px",
    							calendars: [],
    							timeFormat: "HH.mm",
    							dateFormat: "DD.MM",

As I said earlier, it keeps rotating between 3 different calendars and they never show in one view at the same time.

[A Former User]

@jani-karna
Are those a full configuration of MMM-CalendarExt2 ? Share with me including your real ical url. (eouia0819@gmail.com)

[mrdenmark]

i’m sure thge answer to this question will be in the wiki but i either can’t find it or dont understand it.
i have 2 things i’;d like to change,
in the current and upcoming views you can see the titles i’ve entered and i’d like to remove/change where it says upcoming/current

in whe weeks view the events are cut short,how do i make them wrap or use more lines to show the full entry?
thanks in advance

[A Former User]

@mrdenmark
1)

2. Not possible easily. I regard month and week view as a brief summary or overview. MM screen is too narrow to display full events details. Other calendar programs - e.g: Google Calendar or Apple Calendar also provide a simple month view like this. You’d better to use other views together to display details of major events (upcoming or current or daily)
   And You can transform title of the event to more shorter abbreviation(e.g: “jack climbing” = > “J.C.”) or using icon and class intentionally. (“morfar’s birthday” = > cake icon + “morfar”). You can achieve this by using transform.

[mrdenmark]

@Sean
thanks for that,
i changed a few things in the screenshot below and another thing i can’t figure how to change is the current and upcoming views
the first calender-dishwasher duty- only ever shows one name per day but it seems to have several slots reeserved for it, i tried changing maxslots and maxheight but it resulted in a +1 showing for the entry,its also a larger block size in height than the ones in the upcoming view below it,how can i reduce the size of both the slot and the black area below it?

here’s my config for the views-

 views: [
  {
    name: "Dishwasher Duty",
    mode: "current",
    slotTitle: "Dishwasher Duty",
    position: "top_left",
    maxitems: 1,
    hideOveflow: true,
    useEventTimeRelative: false,
    calendars: ["Dishwasher Duty"],
  },
{
    name: "Todays Events",
    mode: "current",
    slotTitle: "Todays Events",
    position: "top_left",
    useEventTimeRelative: false,
    maxitems: 500,
    calendars: ["family", "Rubbish Collection", "Public Holiday"],
  },
{
    name: "Upcoming Events",
    mode: "upcoming",
    slotTitle: "Upcoming Events",
    position: "top_left",
    maxitems: 500,
    useEventTimeRelative: false,
    calendars: ["family", "Rubbish Collection", "Public Holiday"],
  },
  {
    name: "My family affairs",
    mode: "week",
    position: "bottom_bar",
    maxitems: 500,
    calendars: ["family", "Rubbish Collection", "Public Holiday"],
  },
    ],

[A Former User]

@mrdenmark

[jani.karna]

If I have same event in two calendars, can I use filter to filter out one of them? And if so, how is that done?

[A Former User]

@jani-karna
It could not be easy if the events are totally random. But if there is a rule, it could be easier.

For example, you have 2 calendars, “Tom” and “Jane” and there be duplicated events on both calendars and they have the same title - “coworking”.
In that case, you can filter them from one calendar like this;

calendars : [
  {
    name: "Tom",
    url: "...",
  },
  {
    name : "Jane",
    url: "...",
    filter: (event) => {
      if (event.title.search("coworking") !== -1) {
        return false
      } else {
        return true
      }
    }
  },
],

This code would remove the events which have title “coworking” from calendar “Jane”

[feverlabs]

I am working my way through two issues. Icons are not showing up, and I cannot figure out how to set the maximum width. I have left the default icon from your example, as I can’t even get that to show.

Additionally, there is some blank space underneath the calendar, I suspect I need to set a maximum height to allow for only two events to show. Am I on the right track?

I am also stripping out the details of events so they will not be shown. Real Estate is at a premium, and I am trying to limit this to a specific width (I don’t know that number yet, but I like the default width chosen before any events with long titles extends it), and only the next two events on the calendar.

{
				name: "All Sports",
				title: " ",
				mode: "upcoming",
				position: "bottom_right",
				locale: "en",
				maxItems: 2,
				filterPassedEvent: false,
				timeFormat: "h:mm A",
				calendars: ["Sports"],
				useEventTimeRelative: false,
				transform: (event)=>
				{
  					if (event.title.search("UConn Men") > -1) 
					{ // If the event might include "Birthday" in its title,
    						event.icon = "fxemoji-birthdaycake" // Set icon of that event to "fxemoji-birthdaycake"
  					}
  					return event // Return that event.
				},
				transform: (event)=>
				{
					event.description = ""
					return event
				}
			},
			],
			calendars: [
			{	
				name: "Sports",
				url: "http://p25-caldav.icloud.com/published/2/MTkzMDY3NDkxMTkzMDY3NGCona3XQzhU1KfnWRGk8hK-bMw1Mvd4dCQ3Yp9tNU5USCACQcqmSFeSa3bQfVEyYrzVqH2TVzgLBXzPKzs1MtM",
			},

[A Former User]

@feverlabs
You made some wrongs.

1. you’ve defined transform twice, so only the last will be executed. (That’s why your birthday cake icon is not shown)
2. The better way to remove details of agenda(upcoming/current) view is using CSS. add this into your css/custom.css

.CX2 .agenda .eventSub {
  display:none;
}

3. To remove beneath area, use hideOverflow:false. Sorry for confusing. slotMaxHeight is somehow confusing naming. It really set the fixed height. It has only a sense onhideOverflow:true.

[feverlabs]

@Sean I think the blank space at the bottom is better.
The icons now show, so that’s great. Do you have a link to a list of the names of icons available in the set?

After making those changes, the event details show again.