Posts made by redink

Thanks, I ended up doing this in my custom.css

#module_4_MMM-CalendarExt3
{
    margin-left: -40px;
    margin-right: -40px;
}

It doesn’t seem like the best approach, but it works.

I am using MMM-CalendarExt3 with some fairly limited width. I’d like to remove any margins from it and have it go from edge to edge. In the past, I did this using custom.css, but it seemed hacky. I just tried setting the position to “fullscreen_below” and it removed the margins, but it’s sitting at the very top of the screen. How do I make it appear at the bottom of my screen with no margins or padding?

If you were to build a magic mirror from scratch, what display technology would you pick? My MagicMirror is running on an old LCD TV with a two way mirror in front of it and the glare make it almost unreadable during the day.

If I were to rebuild it, what kind of a TV should I use to make it easier to read during the day?

@sdetweil really appreciate your support on this!

@sdetweil That did it. Thank you so much. I spent two hours this morning trying to fix this.
How did you know that this was an issue? I need to get better at learning how to troubleshoot this mirror myself.

@sdetweil ok, that makes sense.

My issue is really strange where my two recurring weekly events only show up during the first two weeks of the month, and are ignored the rest of the time until the next month. I even tested installed thunderbird to open the ICS file to check that the issue isn’t with google calendar. Thunderbird displays the recurring events just fine.

It’s making me think if I should hack together some kind a pre-processor to only return events that are relevant to the view.

@sdetweil, would you mind sharing how you set up a filter for the events? I have a suspicion that too many events are causing some items to now show up on calendar.

My current MagicMirror is an old 40" LCD TV. It’s positioned in area that get a lot of light and is quite hard to read. I am considering rebuilding it with something might brighter. What TV would recommend? Something around 55" would be fantastic.

@sdetweil yeah, i probably just did a git pull

@sdetweil while messing with raspi-config over ssh, magicmirror lost connection to my wifi. I had to connect a keyboard and reconnect. But, before going back to your last suggestion I did two other things. I updated pm2 (as suggested by some other post). And in the browser console I noticed that I had an error about not being able to locate “CX3_shared.mjs”. I checked the MMM-CalendarExt3 repo, and found that file CX3_Shared/CX3_shared.mjs, which for some reason wasn’t getting pulled by a git pull. I manually copied it in, and the calendar sort of started working.

I should have paid better attention to the documentation, because I would have seen that I needed to run git submodule update --init --recursive to update the submodule.

The reason I say “sort of” is because my family calendar doesn’t show some repeating events, but I need to dig deeper into that.

I really appreciate all your help.