MMM-CalendarExt2

[ChickenBeard]

@Sean said in MMM-CalendarExt2:

Not adjusted automatically. you can set the height of the slot manually.

Is it CX2 .slot ?

[A Former User]

@ChickenBeard
if you mean some table views (month, week), set slotMaxHeight of view configuration.
https://github.com/eouia/MMM-CalendarExt2/wiki/2c4.-View:week,-month

[code999]

@Sean okay. it would be great to have though. not seeing the events is not good. limited space on the screen so i cant just make more room because then i will lose a full week from the month view.
thanks.

[code999]

@Sean could you help me do that anyway? lol
i would really like it to do that.
Thanks.

[A Former User]

@code999

could you help me do that anyway? lol
i would really like it to do that.

do what?

[code999]

@Sean make the events under a date that is not showing scroll.
I am trying to figure it out but I have no coding knowledge at all so I just randomly change things and see what it does but I am not getting anywhere doing that at all.

[A Former User]

@code999
To show more events in a cell, just set bigger slotMaxHeight. And shrinking the font-size and height of event element could be help.

But anyway, Usual MagicMirror Screen has not so enough space to show many events with Table Views(month and week view). Even normal Desktop calendar programs like Google Calendar MS-Office or Apple Calendar couldn’t show too many events in a cell.

Maybe you can make show 5 or 6 events in a day cell. But What about 7 events or 8 events? It could not be solved at last.

Auto-scroll could be the ideal solution, but RPI has not enough power to maintain so many scrolling effects. (Maybe RPI4 could have enough power but many ppl also are using even RPI0)
However, you want it, use MMM-CalendarExt instead. It has that feature but will be very slow.

Another possible approach would be to filter and/or to sort events to show. Some of the events will not be more important than others to show in that view. You can filter unimportant events not to show, Or at least, you can sort them to hide.

[cskenney]

Just a general question. I have my calendar pulling from 6-7 different Google calendars. I have the module configured to retrieve the calendar data every 5 minutes. I did this to allow changes made to an entry to be updated pretty quickly on my display.

The issue is if I modify a calendar entry in my Google calendar it doesn’t get updated in the MM calendar display. If I stop MM and then restart it then everything will be correct. But leaving it running it doesn’t update with the changes. I have also seen this if I deleted a calendar entry it will remain in my MM calendar on the display.

Here is the code I am using. I put the scan interval for the calendars in the default section.

				locale: "en",
				defaultSet: {
						calendars: {
							maxItems: 500,
							scanInterval: 1000*60*5,
							beforeDays: 5,
							afterDays: 60,
							maxIterations: 100,
						},

[A Former User]

@cskenney
scanInterval is just for scanning calendars, finding something changed, then loading them. So, your modified events would definitely be loaded on the module.
But displaying is another issue. rotateInterval(when you are using multi-scenes) or updateInterval (When you are using single-scenes) could make refreshing the displaying.
https://github.com/eouia/MMM-CalendarExt2/wiki/2e.-Configuration:Others

[cskenney]

@Sean I have the rotateInterval set to 0 and the updateInterval set to (5 minutes).

I will post my code below but I will need to removed the URL to my calendars.

		{	/*MMM-CalendardExt2*/
			module: 'MMM-CalendarExt2',
			config: {
				rotateInterval: 0,	//rotate between scenes default = 60*1000; 0 disables
				updateInterval: 5*60*1000,	//If not auto-rotated
				firstDrawingDelay: 10*1000,	//delay to allow calendar parsing
				locale: "en",
				defaultSet: {
						calendars: {
							maxItems: 500,
							scanInterval: 1000*60*5,
							beforeDays: 5,
							afterDays: 60,
							maxIterations: 100,
						},
						view: {
							timeFormat: "h:mm A",
							transform: function(event) {
								if (event.title.search("Panic") > -1) {
								event.icon = "noto-softball";
								event.className = "view_panic";
								} else if (event.title.search("Arin") > -1) {
								event.icon = "noto-softball";
								} else if (event.title.search("Violin") > -1) {
								event.icon = "emojione-monotone:violin";
								}
								return event;
							},							
						},
						scene: {}
				},
				calendars: [
					{
						name: "Chris",
						url: "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical...basic.ics",
						className: "cal_chris",
					},
					{
						name: "Kim",
						url: "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical...basic.ics",
						icon: "twemoji-medical-symbol",
						className: "cal_kim",
					},
					{
						name: "Lauren",
						url: "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical...basic.ics",
						className: "cal_lauren",
					},
					{
						name: "Ryan",
						url: "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical...basic.ics",
						className: "cal_ryan",
					},
					{
						name: "MHS Softball",
						url: "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/...basic.ics",
						icon: "noto:softball",
						className: "cal_mhs_softball",
					},
					{
						name: "Softball Badgers",
						url: "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/...basic.ics",
						icon: "noto-badger",
						className: "cal_badgersoftball",
					},
					{
						name: "BOPA",
						url: "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical...basic.ics",
						icon: "emojione-musical-score",
						className: "cal_bopa",
					},
				],
				views:[
					{
						name: "View_Daily",
						mode: "daily",
						position: "top_left",
						calendars: ["Chris","Kim","Lauren","Ryan","MHS Softball","Softball Badgers","BOPA"],
						hideOverflow: false,
						filterPassedEvent: false,
						slotCount: 2,
						maxItems: 500,
					},
					{
						name: "View_Upcoming",
						mode: "upcoming",
						slotTitle: "UPCOMING",
						position: "top_center",
						maxItems:10,
						maxDays: 3,
						hideOverflow: false,
						filterPassedEvent: true,
						calendars: ["Chris","Kim","Lauren","Ryan","MHS Softball","Softball Badgers","BOPA"],
						className: "views_upcoming",
					},
					{
						name: "View_5D_Overview",
						title: "CALENDAR",
						mode: "daily",
						type: "row",
						position: "bottom_bar",
						maxItems: 500,
						slotCount: 5,
						hideOverflow: false,
						filterPassedEvent: false,
						calendars: ["Chris","Kim","Lauren","Ryan","MHS Softball","Softball Badgers","BOPA"],
					},
				],
				scenes:[
					{
						name: "DEFAULT",
						views: ["View_Daily","View_5D_Overview"],
						className: "Scene_Default",
					},
				],
			},
		},//end of calendarext2 module
	],

};