MMM-CalendarExt2

A Former User

I think maxItems should be bigger for using many calendars at the same time. Your config says 50 events to be loaded in that view and many of those events were old to be displayed in that view.
Smaller values will make performance better but by that value, some events would be dropped. You can use filter to filter UNNECESSARY events, but somewhat difficult, so just giving a bigger value to maxItems would work.
Width of horizontal MM is not enough wide to display 5 columns :D If you are using 1920x1080 resolution, the width will be 1080(max) or somehow narrower. It means usually each column will take 200px or smaller in 5 columns.
Anyway, there could be a few solutions.

remove the outer frame margin/padding of MagicMirror itself.
adjust the column size of MMM-CalendarExt2
It is not such an easy because it is hard-coded.
https://github.com/eouia/MMM-CalendarExt2/blob/e7535e8fda1fdad1078af158d6e299f730292174/CALEXT2_View.js#L284

    if (this.config.type == "row") slotDom.style.width = ((100 / count) - 3) + "%"

You can modify this. (change 3 to 1 or 0 and save it) But not recommended.

make font smaller
redefine --font-size in CSS(in your css/custom.css. referenced by MMM-CalendarExt2.css). Adjusting details might be needed.
Title as multi-lines. (Recommended)
add this into your css/custom.css

.CX2 .period .eventTitle {
  white-space:normal;
}

Or you can abbreviate long title to shorter by using transform

add this into your css/custom.css

.CX2 .weeksmark {
  display:none;
}

gonzonia

Thanks for the quick reply!

I think it’s much closer to where I want it now. It takes some time for the data to load initially, but it seems to be working. Still some visual tweaks to make.

I kinda miss the built in styles from CalendarExt. It made it easy to just make each calendar different.

Fr8Trayne

Howdy @Sean something weird is happening. I have this module setup and it’s been working great for a while. It is a scene with two views. The first view is great, but the second view which has the exact same calendars only shows today. The rest of the month is blank. Have you seen this happen before?

A Former User

@Fr8Trayne
show me the configuration.

Fr8Trayne

I’ve removed the actual links to calendars solely for this . Please note that it has been working up until 2 days ago. I love this module just not sure this stopped working. Also note I have a second version of this one a weekly view that still is working just fine.
{
module: “MMM-CalendarExt2”,
pages: {second: “fullscreen_above”},
defaultset: {
view: {
slotCount: 5,
},
},

		config: {

				scenes: [
  					{
    				name: "Month Calendar",
				views: ["family"],
				className: "scene_1",
  					},
					],
			
				views: [
  					{
				    name: "family",
    				    mode: "week",
				    fromNow:0,
				    className: "view_1",
				    calendars: [],
				    slotTitleFormat:"MM/DD",
				    slotSubTitleFormat: "dddd",
				    beforeDays: "7",
				    hideOverflow: false,
				    type: "row",
  					},
					],

				calendars: [
				    {
				    name: "Family Calendar",
				    url: "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical",
				    scanInterval: 2000,
				    className: "family_calendar",
				    maxIterations: 100,
				    },

				    {
				    name: "Dad's Calendar",
				    url: "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical",
					    scanInterval: 2000,
				    className: "dads_calendar",
				    maxIterations: 100,
				    },

				    {
				    name: "Mom's Calendar",
				    url: "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical",
				    scanInterval: 2000,	
				    className: "moms_calendar",
				    maxIterations: 100,
				    },

				    {
				    name: "Alana's Calender",
				    url: "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical",
				    scanInterval: 2000,
				    className: "alanas_calendar",
				    maxIterations: 100,
				    },

				    {
				    name: "John's Calendar",
				    url: "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical",
				    scanInterval: 2000,
				    className: "johns_calendar",
				    maxIterations: 100,
				    },

				    {
				    name: "Holiday Calendar",
				    url: "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical,
				    scanInterval: 2000,
				    className: "holiday_calendar",
				    maxIterations: 100,
				    },
				],
			},
	},

A Former User

@Fr8Trayne
I think this could be also maxItems issue of view.
You have several calendars in a view, it means you might have tons of events in the memory of RPI.(You can check how much events are selected to load on your log.)
Which events should be displayed would be decided by some rules with some condition - filter, sort, … In this case, you haven’t set your rule, so the view would contain 100 events(set as default, sorted by time) from whole calendars. And most(or all) of them would be too old events to display in this view.

Just set the maxItems of view bigger, or set your rule of filter or sort events to display.

Fr8Trayne

@Sean thanks. I have added those changes with no effect. Would you mind guiding me to find those stores events in the RPI? I’d like to see if that is the issue.

A Former User

@Fr8Trayne
Could you share with me your real ical url or file to inspect? you can send it via email. (eouia0819@gmail.com)

lotusvball

Can someone show me what I am doing wrong. I have this configuration:

	{
		module: 'MMM-CalendarExt2',
		config: {
			//firstDrawingDelay: 1000*10,
			scenes:[
				{
					name: "DEFAULT",
					views: ["VIEW1"],
				},
				],
			views:[
				{
					name: "VIEW1",
					mode: "daily",
					title: "Bard Family Schedule",
					position: "bottom_right",
					maxItems: 100,
					maxDays: 5,
					locale: "en",
					hideOverflow: true,
					filterPassedEvent: true,
					slotCount: 4,
					calendars: ["Steve","Tracie","Alex"],
				},
				],
			calendars: [
			    
				{
					name: "Steve",
					url: "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/",
					beforeDays:0,
					afterDays: 5,
				},
				
				{
					name: "Tracie",
					url: "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/",
					beforeDays:0,
					afterDays: 5,
				},
				{
					name: "Alex",
					url: "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/",
					beforeDays:0,
					afterDays: 5,
				},
				
				
				
				],
			},
	},

The actual calendars have the correct url in my setup. If I set one calendar to show in the view ie. [“Alex”] it works but if I try to do all of them I get nothing. Only the headings for the days.

Here is the startup sequence:

Starting MagicMirror: v2.9.0
Loading config …
Loading module helpers …
No helper found for module: alert.
Initializing new module helper …
Module helper loaded: updatenotification
No helper found for module: clock.
Initializing new module helper …
Module helper loaded: MMM-GooglePhotos
No helper found for module: currentweather.
No helper found for module: weatherforecast.
Initializing new module helper …
Module helper loaded: MMM-MyScoreboard
No helper found for module: MMM-pages.
Initializing new module helper …
Module helper loaded: MMM-OnScreenMenu
No helper found for module: MMM-SmartWebDisplay.
Initializing new module helper …
Module helper loaded: MMM-CalendarExt2
All module helpers loaded.
Starting server on port 8080 …
Server started …
Connecting socket for: updatenotification
Connecting socket for: MMM-GooglePhotos
MMM-GooglePhotos started
Connecting socket for: MMM-MyScoreboard
Starting node_helper for module [MMM-MyScoreboard]
Connecting socket for: MMM-OnScreenMenu
Connecting socket for: MMM-CalendarExt2
Sockets connected & modules started …
Launching application.
MMM-GooglePhotos initialized after loading.
[CALEXT2] calendar:Steve >> Scanning start with interval:1800000
[CALEXT2] calendar:Tracie >> Scanning start with interval:1800000
[CALEXT2] calendar:Alex >> Scanning start with interval:1800000
[CALEXT2] calendar:Alex >> Scanned: 3, Selected: 3
[GPHOTO] Scan finished : 66
[CALEXT2] calendar:Steve >> Scanned: 0, Selected: 0
[CALEXT2] calendar:Tracie >> Scanned: 7, Selected: 7

Can you see anything I am doing wrong?

A Former User

@lotusvball
Could you share with me your real ical(.ics) file or URL? By only inspection of real ical, I can tell what’s wrong.
email : eouia0819@gmail.com