Calendar data limits

[aafriedmann]

Hi everyone,

I just received my Bangle and I'm excited to start hacking away on it!

My first project is to get a display of my daily agenda with the locations for all of my meetings at my office.

I found the Agenda app which pretty much does this. But it seems like the location data (coming from Google Calendar) includes first a Zoom link (when it exists) and then cuts off before the room number, which is what I want.

I thought that maybe the app was cutting off the string but I see that the data coming from Gatdgetbridge is already truncated. Is there a way to set Gadgetbridge to provide the full 'location' string?

[gfwilliams]

I'm afraid right now we limit Gadgetbridge to 200 characters of description, and there isn't a way to change it except with a new Gadgetbridge: https://codeberg.org/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/src/branch/master/app/src/main/java/nodomain/freeyourgadget/gadgetbridge/service/devices/banglejs/BangleJSDeviceSupport.java#L1909

Do you have an example of the message description that's sent?

• If there's a bunch of needless characters we can add something to filter them out
• If it's just a few more characters that are needed I'm happy to do that
• Or I guess we could add an option in Gadgetbridge for the message length

The problem we had is that some calendar events are just huge, and it was causing problems trying to sync them to the Bangle - so we do have to have some cropping of messages, and around 200 chars seems about right to stop issues.

[aafriedmann]

Thanks. Right now, the problematic `location` strings look like this: ` https://fix.zoom.us/j/59214261961, C…`. The `C` there is the beginning of the room name which looks like this `Campus A-3-A3.19`. Some of them are a few characters longer. So it would mean adding about 20 characters to the limit. Is that possible?

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On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM Gordon Williams ***@***.***> wrote: I'm afraid right now we limit Gadgetbridge to 200 characters of description, and there isn't a way to change it except with a new Gadgetbridge: https://codeberg.org/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/src/branch/master/app/src/main/java/nodomain/freeyourgadget/gadgetbridge/service/devices/banglejs/BangleJSDeviceSupport.java#L1909 Do you have an example of the message description that's sent? - If there's a bunch of needless characters we can add something to filter them out - If it's just a few more characters that are needed I'm happy to do that - Or I guess we could add an option in Gadgetbridge for the message length The problem we had is that some calendar events are just huge, and it was causing problems trying to sync them to the Bangle - so we do have to have some cropping of messages, and around 200 chars seems about right to stop issues. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#7750 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AQZ6WQKMYWZMG2SLA4JEZDD26GVYJAVCNFSM6AAAAAB465VIO6VHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43URDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHMYTGMJSHAZTONI> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[gfwilliams]

Ahh, right! Sorry, I was looking at description. Yes, I'd have thought we could increase the length of the location a bit. @thyttan any thoughts?

[thyttan]

Not immediately no 👍