@sdetweil My issue was a bit more complicated.
My PRIMARY calendar is my phone but it is Samsungs built in calendar not Google calendar
I was hopping in and out Samsung, Google and Outlook although I don’t remember the sequence of hops.
I was dumbfounded that it even worked at the time.
One of those things where only so many minutes in the day so it was relegated to back burner status.
Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
Posts made by ankonaskiff17
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RE: [INFO] Be careful to use iCal sample of config.js
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RE: [INFO] Be careful to use iCal sample of config.js
@sdetweil I had used a second calendar module to pull in my personal calendar information and was using the ical link that you can get off of Google if I remember correctly.
Sort of along the lines of using multiple weather modules for daily and hourly.Then Google did something that broke the module. I fought with it for a while, gave up and have never tried to get it back running again.
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RE: [INFO] Be careful to use iCal sample of config.js
@sdetweil Back when I first started messing with MM’s the calendar module was faulting out towards the end of that calendar year and it turned out that however many I had set as how many to show, say for example 5 holidays but at some point there were not 5 holidays left in the year but CL had not yet published the next years calandar.
My config.js is wanting 5 holes it needed to fill, there weren’t 5 holidays left so down it would go.
That calendar, because it is US Holidays, behaves like a photograph. It is static. There is no need to have it looking for changes like a volatile personal calendar that is going to change continuously.
US Holidays you could have a
fetchInterval: ONCE EVERY 3 MONTHS
and it would still be overkill. Some of your religious holidays like Easter float around because they aren’t date oriented. But even it has been calculated in advance
It doesn’t require the same level of refreshing as where someone is pulling in their personal Google or Outlook calendar where things like doctors appointments, dinner dates will change quite rapidly… -
RE: ALT not doing anything
@ankonaskiff17 I meant the one where you use the version tag. Not the one that
alternative Installation methods is in . That pulls in the current version which is causing me problems with the ALT keygit clone -b v2.19.0 https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror.git mm2.19
I was unsure if
git clone -b v2.19.0 https://github.com/...
was going to installnode.js
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RE: ALT not doing anything
@sdetweil Used your script and worked like a charm. Didnt put in
mm2.22
at end since I had no previous install.Then did the various appropriate steps from the “official” manual install, like node and everything running as desired.
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RE: [INFO] Be careful to use iCal sample of config.js
@BKeyport @MMRIZE I think the problem is that calendar.js default fetch interval is set to 5 minutes.
When you set about to build a MM and you install the core system, Calendar.js fetchinterval is set to 5 minutes by default.If I install MM AND I’m content with the presentation of the calendar AS IS and do nothing at all,
calendar.js
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RE: [INFO] Be careful to use iCal sample of config.js
@sdetweil I went back and looked at an older MM thats been running quite some time to see if I somehow would have missed that setting because, being a holiday calendar it doesn’t change, period. Some things change such as Easter but annually. I’ve run into that update issue on other modules such as weather.
I saw that item posted on forum and first thing I did was look at my config.js file and nothing related to updates so immediately went to the module file and there it was, 5 minute update interval.
More like as more and more Magic Mirrors got built the upate requests were going up with each mirror. and since when a given mirror’s 5 minute cycle would time out I can imagine they were getting slammed.
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RE: [INFO] Be careful to use iCal sample of config.js
@sdetweil Where are you correcting this?
Reason I ask is because the default in Calender.js is set to 5 minutes and if you don’t change it in config.js doesn’t it fall back to the module default values?It is likely most MM builders do very little to config.js regarding the calendar. When they do initial install of MM, the basic calendar module is loaded,
calendar.js
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RE: Current Weather Not Dimmed
You want this?
Change
--color-text-dimmed: #fff;
I wanted everything to be white across the board so did that by copying the whole root font configuration into custom.css and made change in custom.css NOT in main.css -
RE: MM as rolling picture frame
@sdetweil Also, good point to be aware of is that Github may have modules too.