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Hub of All things

Calendar Data Plug for HAT

HAT Calendar Synchronizer

Main features

  • Minimalistic user interface with step-by-step setup process
  • Integration with MarketSquare's authorisation processes
  • Data synchronisation scheduler
  • Build using Node (v4 LTS), MongoDB and Express framework

Default settings

Currently the data plug supports synchronisation of the following data sources with given default intervals:

  • cloud-hosted iCal files (synced every 24 hours)

Support for other data types and features will be added in the near future.

Data fields

Extracts a simple set of calendar event information, using ical.js library:

  • calendarName
  • startDate
  • endDate
  • lastUpdated
  • location
  • attendees
  • summary
  • description
  • organizer

Getting started

Setting up environment variables

Data plug uses environment variables to configure security-sensitive parameters. Please have the following variables set up before starting the node process.

  • MARKET_ID - plug's unique ID to login with MarketSquare (obtained from MS)
  • MARKET_ACCESS_TOKEN - access token associated with the given MARKET_ID
  • MARKET_DOMAIN - domain name used by the MarketSquare (currently marketsquare.hubofallthings.net)
  • HAT_USER - username to login with HATs (configured via MarketSquare)
  • HAT_PASSWORD - password associated with the current HAT username (configured via MarketSquare)
  • NODE_ENV - can be set to either 'production' or 'development'
  • SECURE - if set to 'true' will switch to https protocol for all communications
  • HOST - webserver's domain name, defaults to 'localhost' if not set
  • PORT - webserver's port, defaults to 3000 if not set
  • MONGODB_HOST - Mongo database's domain name, defaults to 'localhost' if not set
  • MONGODB_PORT - Monog database's port, defaults to 27017 if not set

Configuration files

Amendments to the default synchronisation scheduler, data types and data fields being synchronised can be made in the app/config.js file and app/config/ folder.

Starting the server

Clone the repository, install required npm modules and start the node server from the project root directory. Make sure that MongoDB instance is running and environment variables are set up correctly.

git clone https://github.com/Hub-of-all-Things/DataPlugFacebook
cd DataPlugFacebook/
npm install
node bin/www

Now the homepage can be accessed at http://localhost:3000 (assuming the default setup).

Getting cloud-hosted iCal files

Data synchronisation is initialised by entering your ics calendar url into the form and submitting it. It depends on your calendar provider how the URL can be obtained. For example for Google calendar:

Google Calendar ICS address

License

This work is licensed under the Mozilla Public License Version 2.0. Please read the LICENSE file for further details.