MMM-CalendarExt2

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.
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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
	],

};

BKeyport

hey, Sean -

three minor issues and I got my install perfect:

I’m trying to set up a wider slot for the calendar - I’ve got the region expanded and adjusted, but how do I get the item slots to match?:

.region.top.center {
  left: 40%;
  -moz-transform: translateX(-40%);
  -o-transform: translateX(-40%);
  -webkit-transform: translateX(-40%);
  -ms-transform: translateX(-40%);
  transform: translateX(-40%);
  min-width: 750px;
}

I’d like to get rid of the refresh fade. I find it annoying - how to do so?
When I have the “Seahawks” calendar enabled, only the trash calendar loads initially, and after first refresh, the others come in. Can you help with why?

{
			module: 'MMM-CalendarExt2',
				config: {
					calendars : [
						{
							url: "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/PRIVATE",
							name: "Main Calendar", // Optional, Recommended
							maxItems: 100,
							scanInterval: 1000*60*1, // every minute, Appt Book, needs this speed
							beforeDays: 0,
							afterDays: 999,
							maxIterations: 999,
							forceLocalTZ: false,
						},
						{
							url: "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/PRIVATE2",
							name: "Trash Calendar", // Optional, Recommended
							maxItems: 100,
							scanInterval: 24*60*60*1000, // Once a day
							beforeDays: 0,
							afterDays: 999,
							maxIterations: 999,
							forceLocalTZ: false,
						},
						{
							url: "http://www.trumba.com/calendars/seattle-seahawks-schedule.ics",
							name: "Seahawks Calendar", 
							maxItems: 100,
							scanInterval: 24*60*60*1000, // Once a day (Is once a week acceptable???) 
							beforeDays: 0,
							afterDays: 999,
							maxIterations: 999,
							forceLocalTZ: false,
						},
						
					],
					views: [
						{
							mode: "daily",
							position: "top_center",
							slotCount: 99,
							timeFormat:"h:mm A",
							hideOverflow: false,
							name: "Daily View",
							className: "remove_empty_slot",
							calendars: ["Main Calendar","Trash Calendar","Seahawks Calendar"],
							transform: function(event) {  
								if (event.title.search("Recycle") > -1) {
									event.icon = "mdi:recycle";
								}
								if (event.title.search("Yard Waste") > -1) {
									event.icon = "entypo-leaf";
								}
								if (event.title.search("Seahawks") > -1) {
									event.icon = "fa-solid:football-ball";
								}
								return event;
							},
//
						},
					],
					scenes: [
						{
							name: "DEFAULT",
						},
					],
				},
		},

Edit: I guess I have a fourth - I’d like to adjust anything to do with Seahawks (the transform above) to have the inverse color like an all day event. Possible?

A Former User

@cskenney
That will take 5 minutes to refresh displaying. However, That’s not synced to scanInterval(Those are individual for each other), so, at most 10 minutes could be taken to show modified events in unlucky case.

A Former User

@BKeyport

Overwrite these values in your css/custom.css

Adjust default size: (If you want to modifying on specific view, choose a proper CSS Selectors)
https://github.com/eouia/MMM-CalendarExt2/wiki/4.-Styling

.CX2 { /* default values which are used frequently or dependently */
  --row-min-width: 100px;
  --row-max-width: 1000px;
  --column-min-width: 300px;
  --column-max-width: 400px;
  --font-size: 16px;
}

Adjust css animation duration; Or change animation-name to any other improper name.

.CX2.hidden {
  opacity:0;
  animation-name: fadeOutOpacity;
  animation-iteration-count: 1;
  animation-timing-function: ease-in;
  animation-duration: 0.5s;
}

.CX2.shown {
  display:block;
  opacity: 1;
  animation-name: fadeInOpacity;
  animation-iteration-count: 1;
  animation-timing-function: ease-in;
  animation-duration: 0.5s;
}

That is because just parsing of other calendars is not finished before the first drawing of current loaded events. Just wait, in the next turn remains will be displayed.
Or set enough time of firstDrawingDelay to wait for all the parsing be completed.
https://github.com/eouia/MMM-CalendarExt2/wiki/2e.-Configuration:Others
Give the className to your targetted events like what you do with icon. Define CSS styles with that className.
https://github.com/eouia/MMM-CalendarExt2/wiki/4.-Styling

cskenney

@Sean I understand that they are not synced. I can run a test where I set both values to 1 minute (each). I can then make a change in my calendar then come back to the MM 10 minutes later and nothing has changed.

Last night I added an item to my calendar and waited for a couple of hours and it never appeared. Today it is added to the MM calendar. It is like it finally refreshed at midnight when it had to adjust the days.

I am now left wondering if the scanInterval in the default section is actually only used at startup and at midnight.

Edit: I added the scanInterval into the section for a specific calendar and it solved the problem. It looks like when the scanInterval is in the default section that it must not be applied to each calendar. The result is that each calendar is only scanned once per day (or so it seems).

A Former User

@cskenney
Not at all.

I tested this; I gave 20seconds for updateInterval and scanInterval

At start there was no event to show;

In a minute, I added a test event on my google calendar;
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log says There happend 1 event added at that time. (See Scanned and Selected)

And the screen was changed.(See the time of the clock.)

cskenney

@Sean where is this log file located? I will take a look at it and see what I can find.

A Former User

@cskenney
If you want to see the log on real time;
first stop your pm2 (if you are using), then npm start dev on your MagicMirror directory.

BKeyport

@Sean said in MMM-CalendarExt2:

That is because just parsing of other calendars is not finished before the first drawing of current loaded events. Just wait, in the next turn remains will be displayed.
Or set enough time of firstDrawingDelay to wait for all the parsing be completed.
https://github.com/eouia/MMM-CalendarExt2/wiki/2e.-Configuration:Others

is there a way to set priority of loading? If the trumba calendar referenced (Seahawks) is causing issues, I’d rather my main calendar loads first (Hold display until loaded), then the “trash” calendar, then the Trumba calendar. If not, feature request.

Thanks again, Love being able to make this exactly the way I want.

A Former User

@BKeyport
It would be over spec I think. Because;

This symptom would be improved by delayFirstDrawing to some degree. I think a few seconds would be enough to complete all parsing. If some calendar would take over 10 seconds, it would be the connection issue not parsing issue.
This symptom would be issued on short time only when MM starts. Usually, after the first cycle of refreshing, this issue would be gone away.
None the less assigning priority, there would be no guarantee for the specific calendar completing to parse first. The main reason for this delay lays in the network connection quality between your RPI and the calendar server.

Anyway thanks for the suggestion. I’ll research more.

cskenney

@Sean I think I have it figured out now. If looks like putting the calendar scanInterval in the default section (look at the code I posted above) doesn’t apply it to all the calendars. Instead it looks like they are using a default value of 30 minutes. Does that make sense?

A Former User

@cskenney
Hmmm. without real ical data, I can’t say anything about your case. Configuration itself seems nothing wrong.
When I changed your updateInterval to 1000*30, it refreshes per 30 seconds.
If you don’t mind, send me your configuration with real ical URL. my email is eouia0819@gmail.com

A Former User

@cskenney
Wait a sec. I think found something.

A Former User

@cskenney
You have a mistyping in defaultSet. Not calendars, Fix it to calendar

BKeyport

@Sean You can also do it through PM2 directly.

In a second session run “pm2 logs” – it’ll live update the logs on that session’s screen.

cskenney

@Sean That did the trick. You used Calendars (with an S) for the main code section but the default section only used calendar (without the s). I didn’t notice the syntax difference. Thanks for the help.