MMM-CalendarExt2

[Subintro]

Hey, so I’ve been using CalendarExt2 for a while for the ‘Current’ calendar feature, but I’m having to move the calendar I use over to private, I have an account with full authorization to view the calendar but when I add

	auth: {
		user: "blahblahblah@gmail.com",		
		pass: "password",
		method: 'basic'
		}

to my calendar config, it stops working and kind of causes my whole MagicMirror to crash after a while. The logs show everything loading as normal.

My full config is

		{
	module: "MMM-CalendarExt2",
	config: {
	calendars : [
		{
		name: "Current",
		scanInterval: 120000,
		maxItems: 4,
		url: "",
		auth: {
				user: "",
				pass: "",
				method: "basic",
			},
		},
	],
	views: [
		{
		name: "Current",
		mode: "current",
		position: "bottom_center",
		calendars: [],
		slotTitle: "Current Event",
		},
 ],
 scenes: [
		{
		name: "DEFAULT",
		views: [],
		},
		],
	},
},

I do use this with another calendar module, that one works fine with the authentication though.

Thank you for the great module otherwise!

[A Former User]

@Subintro
Can you send your ics url and account information? I need those info to examine.
If you don’t care, send me by email. (eouia0819@gmail.com)

[wegz15]

Hello, I’m having several issues. Im new to coding for the most part. I took a couple basic web design classes about 12 years ago.
I was working on my magic mirror for about 12 hours yesterday. The major issue being my events are not loading from my Google calendar. I used it in the standard upcoming holidays module to make sure I was linking it correctly. They show up there, but not in the calenderext2. The other issue is sizing. Its larger than the screen viewing area. I’m sure I’m doing something wrong. I copied the example that was posted in the file and it changes the css look but not the size and events still dont show up. Any help would be appreciated.

[Subintro]

@Sean
Damn, I appreciate you trying to take a look but I technically cant due to HIPAA compliance.

Have you heard of anyone having any issues with the auth before?

[wegz15]

So, I tried a public google calendar as well as 2 of my private shared google calendars. The shared public one does not work, 1 of my shared one works, and 1 does not within the module. However, all of these calendars work in the default upcoming events module. Any suggestions on why this is? Also, I tried changing the “calendarfetcher.js” in the default calendar folder and with that change the default calendar stopped working, but the mmm-calendarext2 worked.

[wegz15]

I think I figured out the problem. I can see other recent events added to these calendars. I think since they are older calendars they fall outside of the maxItems: 100, beforeDays: 60, afterDays: 365, maxIterations: 100 ranges. I tried adjusting those to go back to the start of the calendars and when I do it doesn’t pull in any events from any of my calendars. I’m not sure how to fix this.

[A Former User]

@wegz15
maybe some repeated events couldn’t be parsed. this is using different parser with default module. it is faster and has more features. but occasionally it fails some repeated events.
i’m researching how to improve but not yet success. i may return but need more time to consider.

[A Former User]

@wegz15
anyway, can you send me your ics url and configuration? my mail is eouia0819@gmail.com

[A Former User]

@wegz15
Now I think found something. set your maxIteration to 1000.
The reason is, your “Red Shift” events is started from too past, so even after 100(default value) occurrences it couldn’t reach to present age.

[wegz15]

Yep, that worked. Thank you. I tried that, but I had it in the wrong spot. Its been trial and error trying to learn which values effect what on the main screen. If any one knows, is there a way to make the calendar not try to take up the full screen with the normal size text? Maybe use the % somewhere? I also have not been able to figure out how to get rid of the week number, I’m somehow missing a day, and I can’t figure out a way to get rid of the “last tuesday, Yesterday, today”. I’d also like to make that bottom weather “shorter”.
Im just not sure how or where to edit these values. Is there maybe a tutorial or video to learn how to “edit” magicmirror and modules?

[A Former User]

@wegz15
month or week view might be too huge even for 1920*1080 size.

• To get rid of week number, open your css/custom.css then add this.

.CX2 .weeksmark {
  display:none;
}

• To adjust day format, add this in your view configuration

slotTitleFormat: "D",
slotSubTitleFormat: "ddd",

I think you’ve set above fields in defaultSet, but each view can have it’s own setting. Especially, week and month could have different behaviors with other views for settings. Read the wiki carefully. https://github.com/eouia/MMM-CalendarExt2/wiki/2d.-Configuration:defaultSet

[wegz15]

I guess what is confusing me the most is where to actually put each piece. I have that in currently and I am still seeing the “last, next today…”

module: 'MMM-CalendarExt2',
	config: {
		scenes:[
			{
				name: "DEFAULT",
				views: ["Monthly"],
			},
		],
		views:[
			{
				name: "Monthly",
				mode: "Month",
				position: "top_right",
				locale: "en",
				slotMaxHeight: "70px",
				dateFormat: "M/D",
				weeksFormat: " ",
				slotSubTitle:"ddd",
				slotTitleFormat: "D",
				slotSubTitle:"",
				dateTimeFormat: "ddd mm/dd",
				timeFormat:"h:mm A",
				slotCount: 5,
				showWeekends: true,
				hideOverflow: true,
				filterPassedEvent: false,
				calendars: ["Work"],
			},
		],

And I guess I’m asking if in general there is a way to scale the whole module so I can have a whole calendar fit into the open space. Thank you for all the help so far. This is my 3rd “day” working with magicmirror.

[A Former User]

Very weird. I use your configuration (even with your ics)
And this is what my screen shows.

There might be more configuration values than you posted. Give me whole configuration.

[wegz15]

I emailed you my whole set up earlier. I think there is something, somewhere in another folder I must have messed with. I deleted everything but my clock and pasted just the calendar and it is showing up as pictured. Maybe a fresh install of MM or MMM-calendarext2.

[Jerrylein]

@Sean thanks for the great module.

I would like to change the design of calendar as in calendarext (Weekdays and monthTitleFormat)

is this possible or should I use calendarext v1?

[A Former User]

@Jerrylein
weekdays name could be cutomizable, but calext2 doesn’t have monthtitle on monthview

[Jerrylein]

@Sean

ok. but how I can change this? I mean the weekdays (sun, mon, tue,wed) are not in the same row with days.

[A Former User]

@Jerrylein
That is slotSubTitleFormat.
in Mon 26, Mon will be slotSubTitle and 26 will be slotTitle. (and additionally 11/25 will be slotAltTitle)

So, if you set like;

{
  name: "VIEW1",
  mode: "month",
  position: "fullscreen_below",
  slotSubTitleFormat: "dddd", // (default value is "ddd")
},

It will show Monday instead of Mon
https://github.com/eouia/MMM-CalendarExt2/wiki/2c4.-View:week,-month

[Jerrylein]

@Sean
thx.
But I do not want to change the format.
I would like to change the design of slotSubTitle as in Calext V1

Here is Calext V1

that’s calext2

I think i should change custom.css file? but how?

[A Former User]

@Jerrylein
If so, why aren’t you using CalendarExt2?
Unfortunately, that part of CalendarExt is table header so it can’t move.
But with CalendarExt2, you can mimic CalendarExt style. like this; (Even though that’s not you want.)

I misread your first question. so you can make it like this;

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