Calendar App
Use Screenly to display events from your calendar on a digital sign
Display events from your calendar on your screens.
Calendar App
The Calendar App turns any calendar you can share as an iCal link into an agenda board. Put the team's week on the office screen, or today's schedule on the screen in reception.
What's on now, and what's next
The current or next event fills one side of the screen, large enough to read from across the room. It's marked Now while it's running, counts down to its start when it begins within a day, and shows the day when it's further out. The rest of the agenda sits beside it, grouped under Today, Tomorrow, and the days after, with a count of anything that doesn't fit. The date and time run across the top, with your logo in the corner.
Choose how far ahead to look
The Time Range setting decides which events appear:
- Next 30 days for a full agenda
- Next 7 days for the week ahead
- Today only for a room or reception screen
The next event, full screen
Turn on Next Event Only and the screen shows only the current or next event, filling the display. It suits a small screen outside a meeting room.
Updates every 5 minutes
The app fetches the calendar every 5 minutes, and the countdown and the Now marker move on as the day goes.
Configuration settings
| Setting | Description | Required | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| iCal URL | The iCal feed for your calendar. See below for how to get it from Google Calendar | Yes | - |
| Time Range | Next 30 days, Next 7 days, or Today only | No | Next 30 days |
| Next Event Only | Show only the current or next event, filling the screen | No | off |
| Bypass CORS | Fetch the feed through a proxy, for iCal URLs that need it | No | on |
| Override Locale | Language code, such as en or fr, for dates and times | No | en |
| Override Timezone | Time zone, such as America/New_York. Leave blank to use the screen's time zone | No | - |
| Display Errors | Show errors on screen. For debugging only | No | off |
Obtaining the iCal URL
Go to your Google Calendar.
On the left sidebar, under "My calendars", select the calendar you want to use.
Click on the three dots on the right side of the calendar and select "Settings and sharing".
Scroll down until you see "Secret address in iCal format". Click on the copy button to the right.
A "Security warning" will appear, saying that "[you] should not give the secret address to other people". Click "OK" to continue.
The secret address will be copied to your clipboard, which you can paste into the App settings. With this iCal URL, you're all set to use the Calendar App.
- Explainer text
- Display events from your calendar on a digital sign
- Repo URL
- https://github.com/Screenly/calendar-app
- Screenshots
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