Snoshrk | # 381 | 2009-05-07, 12:45 | Report

@AndyM

Silly question...Have you selected (check box) your GCal in the mCalendar Preferences? Then Sync.

IIRC from when I installed / deleted db / re-Synced... the first sync only retrieves the GCal list. Subsequent Syncs(after selecting the Cal) pull in your Cal entries.

@All

What is the difference between selecting the GCal, Marking it Default, or Checking both?

Thanks

AndyM | # 382 | 2009-05-07, 18:27 | Report

Ah, that was it! In my defence, I didn't have the application maximised, and didn't see any check-boxes by the GCal names...

Palmleavr | # 383 | 2009-05-08, 11:45 | Report

mcalendar worked fine for me initially, but I've now had to remove it from my n810. The problem is that, after I sync it to my Google calendar, mcalendar causes my tablet to spike in cpu/memory usage and then, eventually, to reboot.

When I first started sync-ing mcalendar, I made the mistake of trying to sync it with six preset Google calendars (US holidays, China holidays, Singapore holidays, etc.). The sync took all night (mcalendar had to sync each event individually) and finished with an error. Soon afterwards, I noticed that my tablet would start freezing soon after I connected to any wireless signal.

I put the hometools applet to use and found that my average cpu load spiked from < 1.0 to > 20.0 soon after any Wifi connection. Memory also dropped from about 70000 k to < 20000 k in that same time period before the tablet rebooted itself.

(At first I blamed Midori, Midnight Commander or the mileage app because this problem happened soon after I installed these apps, but I now know that mcalendar was the main cause).

I used the "top" and "ps" commands in Terminal to identify the process that spiked after connecting to the internet. After I uninstalled mcalendar (and manually uninstalled the database file and prefs), I reinstalled mcalendar and everything seemed fine again. However, after another sync with Google calendar (this time successful with only three holiday calendars synced), I started having the same problem again.

I am thinking of submitting this to Bugzilla. According to tso, the specific culprit is mcalendar_sync.python. Like tso, Autosync was unchecked in my mcalendar preferences.

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Last edited by Palmleavr; 2009-05-08 at 11:46. Reason: mispelling

tso | # 384 | 2009-05-08, 12:28 | Report

what i did to fix that was this:

apt-get install alarmtool

open up /var/lib/alarmd/alarm_queue.xml in some way to that it can be read

find the cookie code for each entry of mcalendar_sync.python, and use alarmtool -r to remove said entry from alarmd.

tso | # 385 | 2009-05-15, 20:09 | Report

Ugh, just had to dig out all entries of mcalendar_sync.py again...

And the only thing i did was run mcalendar for a couple of seconds, with the result that i had multiple sync processes going, eating its way thru ram and maxing out the cpu. And it continued after it forced the tablet to reboot...

Either i'm extreamly unlucky, or there is some kind of interaction issue between mclaendar and python-launcher...

mikeywilliams | # 386 | 2009-05-16, 10:11 | Report

Happens to me too and made my N800 unuseable..
Got so bad I have had to uninstall mCalendar until the problem is solved.
Pity as it was very usefull.

silvermountain | # 387 | 2009-06-25, 16:25 | Report

I'm using the latest version on mCalendar and I love the look and feel of how it displays events...but;

a) I can't find any option anywhere to create an all-day event,

b) The actual creation of a calendar event is a bit awkward (how the start time is defaulted to current time, how you pick the start- and end-time, etc),

c) People are mentioning that they show the events through an applet on the home screen - are you guys using the mgCal applet?

Is this application still in development?

I'm basically looking for an easy-to-use calendar that can sync to google-calendar and an applet to show upcoming events on the home-screen

Thanks!

superbondbond | # 388 | 2009-06-25, 16:44 | Report

Homecalendar is what you're looking for

silvermountain | # 389 | 2009-06-25, 16:57 | Report

Thanks very much, I'll check it out now and see if I like it more than mgCal (which seems to pull data directly from Google Calendar to the applet).

Snoshrk | # 390 | 2009-06-26, 04:57 | Report

Has anyone heard from Khertan recently?

His website seems to not have changed / been updated in while either....