Had some issues getting Mycroft going today. At one point I asked if I had any appointments today and it responded with “is that on the Japanese time zone?”. When i said “no” it told me I had no appointments. When I tried to add an event, it didn’t understand. After several reboots, it would finally listen and respond to me, but it seems to have lost the calendar skill.
I will attempt to re-install.
I was using a .ics file.
UPDATE: While Mycroft didn’t recognize the calendar skill as being installed, i had to uninstall it with the msm command and then re-install.
This time it installed quite quickly and was good to go after a reboot.
I was able to add an event successfully, however, it is using GMT for the time zone and not EDT. So my 5 Pm dinner was set for 9 PM.
When I ask Mycroft for the current time, it is correct.
The file is rather large. Would you like me to filter on something? Or where can I put it?
Here is the log filtered on “calendar”:
14:03:49.087 - QuestionsAnswersSkill - INFO - Searching for how many appointments are on my calendar for today
14:12:04.556 - QuestionsAnswersSkill - INFO - Searching for what’s on my calendar
14:29:15.226 - mycroft.skills.core:load_skill:121 - INFO - ATTEMPTING TO LOAD SKILL: calendar-skill.linuss1 with ID calendar-skill.linuss1
14:29:16.664 - mycroft.skills.core:load_skill:150 - INFO - Loaded calendar-skill.linuss1
14:29:16.668 - mycroft.skills.core:load_skill:154 - INFO - First run of calendar-skill.linuss1
14:30:06.205 - Calendar - INFO - 2019-04-24 00:00:00-04:00
14:31:24.194 - Calendar - INFO - Calendar skill new event: date: 2019-04-24 17:00:00-04:00 event: dinner at 5 p.m.
14:31:40.870 - Calendar - INFO - 2019-04-24 00:00:00-04:00
14:47:06.945 - msm.skill_entry - INFO - Nothing new for calendar-skill.linuss1
No Tracebacks associated with Calendar Skill. It is looking good.
Interestingly, when I schedule an event with the time and date in the first interaction (Hey Mycroft add an event called lunch on Friday at noon) it works properly with the time. When i do three steps (Hey Mycroft, add an event. Then in response to “what is the date?” after “what is the name of the event?”) the time doesn’t adjust to my time zone.
Alright, thanks for all the debugging info!
I just pushed a fix to GitHub that fixed this issue on my end so try it out. Just uninstall then reinstall the skill to use it!
yes, that is working! I have added some further tests:
Case 1: (confused by time zone)
Current time is 20:18 EDT (Wednesday) or 00:18 GMT (Thursday).
What is my schedule for today?
Mycroft: “Did you mean the Tokyo Asia time zone?”
No
Mycroft: “I could not find the time zone for today.”
If I answer “Yes” to Tokyo Asia time zone query.
“It is Thursday, April 25th 2019.”
Case 2: (Confused by time zone).
Current time is 20:18 EDT (Wednesday) or 00:18 GMT (Thursday).
What is my schedule for tomorrow?
Mycroft: answers for Friday (not taking my time zone into account).
Case 3: (Very Good)
what is my schedule for Thursday?
It works as expected.
Case 4: (OK, but a bit confused)
“Add an event called Lunch on Saturday at noon.”
Mycroft: The first event on your schedule on saturday, the twenty-seventh is lunch on saturday at noon, at noon.
Event time is correct; event name is “lunch on saturday at noon”. i imagine the engine gets a bits confused by the time as stated with the name of the event.
Case 5: (Very Good)
“Add an event”
Mycroft: What is the name of the event?
Me: Dinner.
Mycroft: What day is the event on?
Me: Saturday at 5 PM.
Mycroft: OK, I have added dinner to your calendar.
Checking this, the time is correct now for both events.
Wow! Thanks for all this information! I’m not sure what is causing Mycroft to ask “Did you mean the Tokyo Asia time zone?” because the skill never asks that. It seems to be that there is an intent collision with the date time skill, so I’ll add this sample utterance.
Notes to myself:
Add more vocab
Fix engine saying “noon” is part of the name
Change all date time objects to match current time zone
After deleting and re-adding the skill, now it appears on home.mycroft.ai.
I saw, but, a pair of things I don’t understand.
Its supposed to work with CalDav servers, but there is no option for CalDav servers, just iCal. I’ve tried to put NextCloud CalDav credentials and URL, but the skill just works with the local .ics it created, so I guess it did fallback into local ics.
The second question is… what is that second “password” field shown in the picture?
Hummm, in which directory?
On /opt/mycroft/skills/calendar-skill.linuss1 there is no need to blur anything settings.json
{"__mycroft_skill_firstrun": false}
The other file on this very same location: settingsmeta.yaml
name: Calendar
skillMetadata:
sections:
- name: Calendar Location
fields:
- type: label
label: By default, the calendar skill defaults to saving your calendar on your device. However, if you wish to connect to a iCal server, you can select the setting here then fill out the information below. You can also <a href='http://bit.ly/mycroft-calendar-ics'>learn more about ics files.</a>
- name: server_type
type: select
label: Calendar Location
value: "local"
options: Locally on the device|local;iCal Server|server
- name: iCal Login
fields:
- type: label
label: <b>If you selected iCal Server</b> above, fill out the form here, to connect Mycroft to your iCal account. If you wish not to enter this information in here, you can <a href='https://bit.ly/mycroft-calendar-local'>configure the skill on your device</a>
- name: username
type: text
label: Username
value: ""
- name: password
type: password
label: Password
value: ""
- name: port
type: number
label: Password
value: ""
- name: server_address
type: text
label: address
value: ""
On ~/.mycroft/skills/Calendar there isn’t any file at all.
Where I put the configuration was in ~/.mycroft/calendar-skill.linuss1 with this content
Okay, try putting the configuration that you entered (in ~/.mycroft/calendar-skill.linuss1) into a file, with the same name at ~/.mycroft/skills/Calendar and deleting the other.
Then try rebooting to make sure the changes take affect.
If that doesn’t work, delete the configuration files that you created (~/.mycroft/skills/Calendar) and try configuring with Mycroft home. Make sure you click the save button and then say “configuration update” to pull the settings down. Then check /opt/mycroft/skills/calendar-skill.linuss1/settings.json to see if your information was pulled down. (post that file here).
This Forum has been most helpful. Here are the steps I’ve isolated so far:
msm install https://github.com/LinusS1/calendar-skill.git works great.
msm --latest install https://github.com/LinusS1/calendar-skill.git also works.
The install took almost 20 minutes for me, but it eventually finished. Start it and walk away, watch a movie, whatever. When you come back it will be finished.
However, it is incomplete. You will need to run: pip install CalDav before, if you want to be able to use a CalDav server (like NextCloud) this also takes some time. Be patient.
Now I’ve got it running and configured. Edit /opt/mycroft/skills/calendar-skill.linuss1/settingsmeta.yaml AND /opt/mycroft/skills/calendar-skill.linuss1/settings.json with your server connection info. REBOOT.
After it comes up, you can test:
What’s on my Calendar? --fails
Add event Test today at 2pm. --fails
Manually add event Test to your calendar at 2pm.
Add event Test today at 2pm. --passes
Proves that it can connect to the CalDav server, but can’t do anything with it.
Here are the relevant logs:
01:38:54.757 | INFO | 680 | Calendar | Calendar skill new event: date: 2020-05-04 21:00:00 event: test
01:38:54.888 | ERROR | 680 | mycroft.skills.mycroft_skill.mycroft_skill:on_error:799 | An error occurred while processing a request in Calendar
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/pi/mycroft-core/mycroft/skills/mycroft_skill/event_container.py”, line 66, in wrapper
handler(message)
File “/opt/mycroft/skills/calendar-skill.linuss1/init.py”, line 192, in handle_add_appoint
c.events.append(e)
AttributeError: ‘set’ object has no attribute ‘append’
