[lorenzph]

Organiser Feed pushes your calendar entries directly onto the event feed of your home screen.

I have been working on this due to user requests in the maemo forum. In the meantime another solution popped up which still has some issues (mainly due to the choice of programming language some libraries are currently not available) compared to Organiser Feed and therefore I decided to publish it anyways.

Screenshots

Current Features

• Per calendar settings for:
  • Inclusion in event feed
  • Maximum look ahead range (events starting beyond that range will not be shown)
  • Maximum number of entries (e.g. only show 1-2 entries at a time)
  • Inclusion of to-dos
  • Inclusion of overdue to-dos
• Recurring event support
• Auto-update when entries in the calendar change
• Directly jump to the event when clicked on the homescreen
• Sort order of events (I am abusing a shortcoming in the current homescreen version for this - this may stop working at any time)
• Control panel integration: Configure Organiser Feed via Settings -> Notifications -> Event Feeds
• Either a plain icon or the calendar icon with the correct day of the event
• Customisable expiry time: events can be removed from feed either at the beginning of the event or at the end
• Two display modes: one feed entry per event or aggregation of events happening on the same day into one feed entry (due to platform constraints no more than 5 events per feed entry are possible)

Download

You can download the current version (1.1.4) of Organiser Feed at https://www.bithub.de/philip/calenda....1.4_armel.deb

Alternatively you can get it directly from the Nokia Store (releases may lag behind the versions published here):

Fixed web browser: http://store.ovi.com/content/224356
Nokia mobile browser: http://store.ovi.mobi/content/224356

If you are updating from an earlier version (calendarfeed <= 0.9.3):
Due to the renaming of the package name has changed from calendarfeed to organiserfeed. So remove the old version from your phone before upgrading (either via the application manager or from the console via apt-get purge calendarfeed). Your settings will not be lost.

Changelog

1.1.3

• Fix an issue in single entry view mode displaying an incorrect start time
• Other minor bug fixes related to the feed entry ordering

1.1.2

• Include Spanish translation
• Introduce #{age} and #{formattedAge} template variables

1.1.1

• Fix an issue where feed entries do not appear on the top of the feed if there are only overdue to-dos left
• Fix an issue where the feed entry contents are truncated in aggregated mode
• Support for the Birthday calendar coming in PR 1.2

1.1.0

New stable release including all translations.

• To-do support
• Template support for the "No aggregation view mode" (https://gitorious.org/harmattan-orga...late+support**)
• Aggregate all events of a day into a single item to save screen space (selectable from the settings)
• Better integration with MeeBirthdays: Display age and special icon for birthdays (requires MeeBirthdays >= 0.2.3)
• Grayscale "day icon" support
• Several bug fixes related to all-day events, events spanning several days and other areas
• New and updated translations

1.0.1

• Translations for Russian, Norwegian and French added (thanks for the translations to: Andrey Savin, mousse04, Tarl and skripis)
• Prefix colour of calendar to event title
• Add alarm symbol to indicate that a reminder is set (you will have to restart your phone in order to see the symbol)
• Add a potential fix for redraw bugs on the home screen
• Fix an issue where an all day event would only expire at the end of the next day when expiry mode was set to on end date

FAQ

Available at https://gitorious.org/harmattan-orga...s/Home#**FAQ**

Development

Organiser Feed is licensed under the GPL 3 and development happens in public in the Git repository hosted at https://gitorious.org/harmattan-organiser-feed

If you are missing a feature or want to support development let me know.

[dagee04]

This looks really promising. I tried it out but nothing is showing. All the feeds are set to on and I've rebooted twice. Still no dice. The only thing that I've done with my calendar was installing the calendar hack that makes the icon change with the real date. I don't think that should matter though. Is there anything specific I need to do to get it to work?

[lorenzph]

Originally Posted by dagee04

This looks really promising. I tried it out but nothing is showing. All the feeds are set to on and I've rebooted twice. Still no dice. The only thing that I've done with my calendar was installing the calendar hack that makes the icon change with the real date. I don't think that should matter though. Is there anything specific I need to do to get it to work?

Can you check if calendarfeedd is running (pgrep calendarfeedd in the console)?

If it is stop it (must be run as root) "/sbin/stop apps/calendarfeedd" and start it manually (this time as "user") via /opt/calendarfeed/bin/calendarfeedd and send the output to me (there shouldn't be any private stuff in that log but please double check).

Let me know if you need any further help debugging this.

[dagee04]

I put pgrep calendarfeedd in terminal and it gave the number 2551? does that mean calendarfeedd is running?

[lorenzph]

Originally Posted by dagee04

I put pgrep calendarfeedd in terminal and it gave the number 2551? does that mean calendarfeedd is running?

Yes, that's the process id of calendarfeedd.

[dagee04]

Ok so I stopped it running the command in root you wrote...it said stopped/waiting

and then I opened a new window without root and put the command to start it manually. How can I send the output? I can do the basics on terminal but i'm not a genius or anything

Now i'm getting two numbers 2167 and 2324 when I put in pgrep? Is that normal?

[lorenzph]

Originally Posted by dagee04

Ok so I stopped it running the command in root you wrote...it said stopped/waiting

and then I opened a new window without root and put the command to start it manually. How can I send the output? I can do the basics on terminal but i'm not a genius or anything

Try the following (terminate the other instance via CTRL + C first):

/opt/calendarfeed/bin/calendarfeedd 2>&1 | tee ~/MyDocs/Documents/debug.txt

As soon as the output idles you can also terminate that instance and should find a "debug" text document via the built-in Documents application (and you can send that to your email account from there). I usually SSH to the phone to copy and paste stuff.

Now i'm getting two numbers 2167 and 2324 when I put in pgrep? Is that normal?

Hmm that indicates that it is running twice now - try "killall calendarfeedd" as root or "kill <PID>" (e.g. "kill 2167" and "kill 2324").

Thanks for helping debug this.

[jonnyl]

This is friggin' awesome. I was using the other solution, but I love the integration.

I hope more seemless apps come out like this.

It would be cool if the look ahead was more configurable and if it supported To-Dos, but other than that, awesome.

PS I did have to reboot to get the settings to show up.

[dagee04]

can't put the debug txt here because it exceeds the limit for attachment...but I did get it

Tried compressing it but it still exceeds the limit

[lorenzph]

Originally Posted by jonnyl

This is friggin' awesome. I was using the other solution, but I love the integration.

I hope more seemless apps come out like this.

PS I did have to reboot to get the settings to show up.

It should also show up after restarting the Settings application. I'll add that to the FAQ.

Originally Posted by dagee04

can't put the debug txt here because it exceeds the limit for attachment...but I did get it

Tried compressing it but it still exceeds the limit

You can send it directly to me at calendarfeed@bithub.de

I have just borrowed a N9 from Nokia RDA and realised that the default settings are off (can you try if changing the maximum number of entries for the "All calendars" calendar setting to 2 or higher fixes the issue)?