MMM-CalendarExt2

mrjdar

Hi all! Newbie here to all this… I’m building out my first smart display and the wife is hoping to have a 2 month calendar view - current and next month. Having a hard time figuring out on my own if that’s possible.

Got CalendarExt2 up and running without a hitch. Hoping there’s a way to show a second month right next to it. Any ideas?

nitewing76

@mrjdar No, it would be one on top of the other and probably too crammed to do much with. To paraphrase the dev from awhile back…the intent of MM is to have a snapshot of your life, smartphones/tablets are better suited to go beyond that.

For me, I put one month on a page, then the next month on another page. Here’s a guide on how to do that…but for it to work on mine, I only put 1 view per scene. In other words, don’t stack them views:[“VIEW1”, “VIEW2”], just views:[“VIEW2”] and the same for other pages. Then I use MMM-Pages and MMM-KeyBindings to move from page to page.

mrjdar

@nitewing76 Perfect thanks for the info! Sounds like that should make her happy and let me keep this up in the house :grinning_face_with_sweat:

rmcelwee

@mrjdar said in MMM-CalendarExt2:

Got CalendarExt2 up and running without a hitch. Hoping there’s a way to show a second month right next to it. Any ideas?

I set mine up to display weekly format, 6 weeks, starting with the current week. So, 50% of the time it will actually display more “future” days than what you are wanting to do. Would that help?

mrjdar

@rmcelwee Yep that’s what I ended up going with after messing around with it some

mrjdar

Hi again all. I was messing around with this and reading more of the documentation and came across a nice solution for my previous post (kind of on accident). I have this:

views: [
 {
   position: "bottom_left",
   mode: "month",
 },
 {
   position: "bottom_right",
   mode: "month",
   fromNow: "1",
 },
],

In short it shows you the current month on the left, and the next month on the right. Works perfect for our needs!

BKeyport

Anyone know the transform function rather well?

I want to change the name on my calendar items from the actual title, to a generic “Appointment”.

I’m pretty sure it’s a transform, I’m just not sure how to do it.

Thanks!

djpoirrier

I’m trying to have a ‘daily’ view where in the morning it shows all of the items for today, and in the evening it shows all of the items for tomorrow. I know i have to make two different ‘views’ and two different ‘scenes’, but what i am struggling with is how to actually change them. I saw in the github that you can do this either on a set period with the ‘rotateInterval’ command but also with a notification or other trigger. How would i go about doing so with the notification or other trigger? Any documentation out there about that?

Thanks,
Devin

djpoirrier

Well i ended up figuring out how to do this a couple hours after this post, so i figured I would share in case anyone else wanted to do the same. I used MMM-ModuleScheduler. Basically you can set certain times to send out a notification that MMM-CalendarExt2 recognizes. Heres my config:

{
	module: "MMM-ModuleScheduler",
	config: {
		notification_schedule: [
			{
				notification: "CALEXT2_SCENE_CHANGE",
				schedule: "0 12 * * *",  //Schedule time based on crontab.guru
				payload: {
					type: "name",
					key: "Afternoon Scene"
				}
			},
			{
				notification: "CALEXT2_SCENE_CHANGE",
				schedule: "0 0 * * *",  //Schedule time based on crontab.guru
				payload: {
					type: "name",
					key: "Morning Scene"
				}
			}
		]
	}
}

You can set up as many scheduled notifications as you’d like. You can see here that, based on crontab scheduling, I am set up to change the scene at Midnight and at noon. The payload key value is the name of the scene you’d like to switch to. You can see other options on CalExt2 notifications here.

rmcelwee

@djpoirrier said in MMM-CalendarExt2:

Well i ended up figuring out how to do this

I’d like to see a picture of what this looks like.