HOWTO: add MyEpisodes to google calendar

saicrazyfire · Posts: 1

hmmmm....seems like the episode air time is 4 hours off for me. Is there anyway to edit the file so I can add 4 hours to get the correct time? Also I want to be able to format the Title of the event so that the Episode name is on there. Is that possible? Thanks.

IIIIIIIIIIII · Posts: 30

Nice, very nice. My thanks to everyone for their work on this project. The link at the end is dead simple to implement and in about 20 seconds I had this setup in gcal. I no longer "have to" check google reader, that's a great feeling.

IIIIIIIIIIII · Posts: 30

I had set to receive notifications when events are canceled or reschedule and have noticed that all events will be canceled and reset but it won't mention by who. Has anyone else noticed it?

mazz0310 · Posts: 31

jamesking · Posts: 25

Hey folks,

I'll try and post up a version that changes the timing by 4 hours tomorrow.

In which direction is it 4 hours wrong?

I should also be able to add the episode title without too many problems, so I'll do two versions.

If someone could just confirm there's still a requirement for this I'll get on it Smile

Cheers,

James

mazz0310 · Posts: 31

Yes please JamesKing. The problem with the 4 hr thing is it depends on the timezone, its 4 hours for me because I'm EST, but google calendar assumes that the calendar is GMT +0:00 so for a show that is supposed to be on at 20:00 shows up on google calendar as 16:00.

Therefore it is 4 hrs earlier than it should be.

I think that the ical created by the script isn't assigned a timezone, if you can some how incorporate timezone (VTIMEZONE or w/e is the appropriate parameter) so that you can pick what timezone, and google calendar can read that then the problem is gone. Of course if it's too difficult I would be very happy if you just released a version that fixed the 4 hrs.

jamesking · Posts: 25

Hi,

Just been investigating where this problem comes from and it appears that, for me, the correctly offset time is in the RSS feed. So I checked my MyEpisodes Control Panel and found that there were settings to do with the time which change the RSS feed.

Can you change the settings here:
http://www.myepisodes.com/cp.php

Does this solve your problem? I'm not trying to be lazy - just find a more flexible solution for you Smile

If it doesn't fix it I'll look at changing the starting time etc Smile

I'll post up a feed with the other request soon (episode name in event title, I think - I'll double check!!)

jamesking · Posts: 25

Hi,
It seems this is a pretty easy thing to change Smile

Just need to change the following line:

mazz0310 · Posts: 31

Awesome JamesKing, so both of them are fixed, but just the option of having either the name is subject or not?

And the RSS feed makes sense I suppose, if that is 4 hours off in the other direction I guess it would cancel it out huh, wish I would have thought about that. And actually I beleive that the time was correct the first time and then I changed the RSS time.....stupid me!!!

Oh well, James King I appreciate your work and glad you helped.

EDIT: Hm that didn't seem to help, now the days are off by a few weeks.

jamesking · Posts: 25

mazz0310 · Posts: 31

Alright, so what I did, and fixed the problem is, i'm using the older script, not the new one you posted, and went to my control panel on the website and changed timezone to UTC and times are all correct. It works perfectly, if you look at some code in bmenu it says timezone must be UTC or something, so I assume that could fix it for everyone.

seebus · Posts: 2

works like a charme! thank you!

IIIIIIIIIIII · Posts: 30

I'm using his method and replacing the username and id but the events show up as all day events on google calendar. In cp I have the timezone set to my own and with 0 as the offset. Any ideas on how to not make it show up as all day events?

jamesking · Posts: 25

Are you definitely using the latest code that I have linked to? If so, I have no idea why it wouldn't work as I have set the time to work in hours, and it works for everyone else...?

http://www.jamesking.co.uk/myepisodes/RSStoiCal.zip

IIIIIIIIIIII · Posts: 30

I don't have my own web space so I am using what saxx offered, I think the code would have to be updated on his end

To do this, add the following URL to Google Calendar:
http://www.sachsenhofer.com/stuff/myepisodestoical.aspx?uid=YOURUSER&pwdmd5=YOURMD5PWD
but change "YOURUSER" to your username, and change "[
YOURMD5PWD" to your MD5 password

jamesking · Posts: 25

I see. Nothing I can help with I'm afraid.

IIIIIIIIIIII · Posts: 30

I appreciate your effort in responding to this. All day event is still better than nothing. There are some rss to email sites I had done due diligence on that I might go look into on an off day. I'm a happy camper having it in gcal at all. Cheers.

seebus · Posts: 2

eztv · Posts: 1

I don't even see where I can input a URL into Google Calendar anymore. Am I just missing it?

Edit: Nevermind, found it. The "Add by URL" option is under the "Add" menu under "Other Calendars" in case anyone else can't find it. Thanks mayco and JamesKing for the awesome script.

adept22 · Posts: 1

Love this, i have it configured but when i subscribe in outlook 2010 it gives me
The Vevent contains a floating DTstart. outl supports floating time for all-day events only. and it doesnt add anything, is there something im missing in the config??

namooth · Posts: 8

mazz0310 · Posts: 31

namooth · Posts: 8

How often are iCal subscriptions supposed to update? I've made changes on my shows in myepisodes and i don't see the changes in my calender even after 2 days. Is there a way to force a calender refresh or something?

mazz0310 · Posts: 31

2 days might be too long, but it's definitely not immediately, it'll take I would say a day....maybe 2.....check your ical file, make sure it is still up on the webserver.

VortX · Posts: 8

saxx's link (http://www.sachsenhofer.com/stuff/myepisodestoical.aspx?uid=YOURUSER&pwdmd5=YOURMD5PWD) is no longer working Sad