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Hello all,

I am having a problem with the layout of the calendar and weather overlapping 

(If my attempt to upload the picture didn’t work, I also uploaded it here: https://imgur.com/a/ZG6hCLC)

As you can hopefully see from the attached image the calendar module is overlapping with the weather module. I dig around in the read me files for both the calendar and weather module and don’t see how I might address the problem.

Can someone please point me in the right direction on how to do this? Should I be setting the maximum width for the calendar module such that it does not overlap with the weather module? I’m no CSS expert but can do some trial and error with the values that might work but am not sure where to start.

Any help is appreciated.

Nathan

Thanks, that worked!

One thing I’m seeing is that my work calendar (Exchange) is not showing. I have A Google calendar that is updating but the Exchange is not. I can configure with a .ics file and .html and neither seems to work. If I copy and paste the Exchange url from config.js to a web browser it works fine, but it is not updating on the MagicMirror. I tried restarting the Pi but no go.

Any ideas on how I can troubleshoot? I haven’t updated the MM software in a few months, so I doubt I’m on the latest version.

Thanks,

Nathan

Thanks @broberg, that worked, I can see that changes I make are taking effect now.

I set the calendar to 450px. However, as you can see from this
picture, the date text just shifted over to the right and is now covering the weather forecast, rather than the text from the calendar entry expanding. What I’m trying to accomplish is to get the full calendar item text to show. Is there a way to do that?

Thanks,

Nathan

Hi,

I have my MM configured vertically and a lot of the calendar entries get cut off. I’m trying to widen the calendar.

This is what I’ve added to custom.css but I’m not seeing any change. (sorry, I’m not sure how to make the code show up in a special way the way others do)

body {
.MMM-calendar {
width : 350px;
}
}

Can someone point me in the right direction in terms of what I’m doing wrong?

Thanks,

Nathan

Hi,

I’m not able to SSH into the magic mirror from my network. I used to be able to but now it’s not working, I don’t think anything has changed. I enabled SSH on my PI (it’s a Pi3).

When i attempt to ssh to the network name of the device I get:

ssh: Could not resolve hostname magicmirror: nodename nor servname provided, or not known

When I connect to the ip address that was assigned to the device and then try to ssh to the ip I get:

ssh: connect to host 192.168.55.132 port 22: Operation timed out

Any recommendations–or is there an alternative way to connect to the device from the network that does not require connecting a keyboard and mouse?

Thanks,

Nathan

Hi,

I’ve got everything running great on a raspberry pi 3. The one issue I am seeing is the news feed. I am not seeing the MM drop out old headlines and cycle in new ones. So, for example, right now many of the headlines it’s showing say they are from 25/24 days ago. (It still thinks Hillary has a chance!)

Is anyone else seeing this? Is there something configurable I’m missing to prevent this behavior? I know the MM has an internet connection because the calendar updates.

Thanks,

Nathan

Hi,

I got this working, the problem was indeed something with the formatting by editing as a text file on my mac. By sshing into the box and modifying the config file directly on the pi I got it working.

One question I still have: is there any way to tell the box to drop headlines after 2 days or so? I’m seeing headlines that are 5, 6, 7, 8 days old cycle through and they are no longer news. I’m seeing some new headlines make their way in but the majority are old. I want to have the MM drop headlines when they are stale, say after 2 days time.

I see there is a updateInterval tag but I believe that refers to the frequency it checks for new headlines, not when it drops old headlines off. Anyone else having the same issue?

Thanks,

Nathan

Anyone? Does anyone have absolute date working as I describe? Can someone post the relevant portion of their config file so I can see what you’ve done?

Thanks.

I am trying to get the calendar module display my calendar in absolute date. I want appointments to read the actual time of the appointment, e.g. “3PM”

This is what my MM is doing:

Appointment today: in an hour
Appointment tomorrow: Tomorrow at 11 AM
Appointment 2 days from now: Tuesday at 12PM
Appointment 4 days from now: In 4 days

Here’s the calendar part of my config.js: (apologies, I know I’m supposed to post this in markdown but am not sure how)

{
module: ‘calendar’,
header: ‘Calendar’,
position: ‘top_left’,
config: {
calendars: [
{
symbol: 'calendar-check-o ',
url: ‘redacted’,

				},

{
symbol: ‘rocket’,
url: ‘redacted’
}

			]

Here’s what the top part of my calendar.js file looks like:

Module.register(“calendar”,{

// Define module defaults
defaults: {
	maximumEntries: 10, // Total Maximum Entries
	maximumNumberOfDays: 365,
	displaySymbol: true,
	defaultSymbol: "calendar", // Fontawesome Symbol see http://fontawesome.io/cheatsheet/
	displayRepeatingCountTitle: false,
	defaultRepeatingCountTitle: '',
	maxTitleLength: 15,
	fetchInterval: 5 * 60 * 1000, // Update every 5 minutes.
	animationSpeed: 2000,
	fade: false,
	urgency: 7,
	timeFormat: "absolute",
	fadePoint: 0.25, // Start on 1/4th of the list.
	calendars: [
		{
			symbol: "calendar",
			url: "http://www.calendarlabs.com/templates/ical/US-Holidays.ics",
		},
	],
	titleReplace: {
		"De verjaardag van ": "",
		"'s birthday": ""
	},
},

Any help is appreciated.

Nathan

Hey guys,

Thanks a lot for the responses. Here’s what I think might be happening:

The first three I configured that I got working

title: “ESPN”,
url: “http://www.espn.com/espn/rss/news”

and one from CNN, I configured on the pi itself, modifying the config file with a mouse and keyboard on the pi. The rest that I shared that weren’t working, modified the config file on my mac via text edit and then ftp’d the file up to the pi. I suspect that the mac might be saving the file in a way the pi does not like, or, as was suggested, inputting the " s in a way the pi does not like. At least, that’s my theory right now, I need to test when I get home.

This is the procedure I am following to edit config.js on my mac:

1. Two-fingered click on config.js. Open with Text Edit
2. Modify the file
3. Save as: config.js. I leave the default plain text encoding (UTF-8)

Is that the right procedure? My MM is installed in the wall in my bathroom and it would be a huge pain to have to connect a mouse and keyboard to it every time I want to modify anything. I suppose I can ssh into it and modify the config file via nano too. I don’t know if that solves the problem, I have to try later.

Thanks again,

Nathan