Connecting your Fastmail Calendar to TRMNL takes just a few seconds.
Step 1 - Visit the Fastmail Calendar Plugin
Inside TRMNL, navigate to Plugins > Fastmail Calendar.
Step 2 - Connect Fastmail Calendar
Note: Enabling this plugin requires publishing your Fastmail calendar to an anonymized "ICS" style format. This is similar to publishing an unlisted YouTube video or "view with link" permission Google Docs file. If your calendar has sensitive data you may limit the published permissions to only expose timestamps, not event details.
Inside Fastmail, navigate to Settings > Calendar. Beside the calendar you wish to integrate with TRMNL, click the Edit & Share button.
In the Publish section and click the toggle button next to Full event details or Free/busy information, depending on what information you wish to share. (source)
Click "Copy to clipboard" below this long URL.
Step 3 - Configure Plugin
Back inside TRMNL, paste your published calendar link into the ICS input field. Important: replace the "webcal" text with "https" so your full URL looks like https://user.fm/calendar/v1-.....
Next you may set a few preferences.
Time Format
24 hours vs 12 hour (AM/PM) style.
Include Description
If "Yes," a truncated preview of the event's description field will be shown beneath the event title. Note that on the "default" Layout (explained below), setting this option to "No" will ~double the number of events shown thanks to saved space.
First Day of Week
Applies only to the "month" view. Tis allows you to set which day of the week is represented by the first column, furthest to the left. Defaults to Sunday.
Ignored Phrases
Supports a list of words that will be used to ignore events based on title or description content.
Layout
Default (upcoming events for today, tomorrow, next day)
Week (5-7 days upcoming)
Month (this calendar month)
Note that only "Week" and "Month" layouts support multi-day events, but every layout supports all-day events.
Example - Week layout with multi-day event ("Michael OOO")
Example - Default layout with all-day event ("Michael OOO")
Example - Month layout with multi-day event:
Step 4 - You're Done!
Based on your device's refresh settings, you'll begin seeing Fastmail Calendar events very soon.
Note: while we fetch data according to your refresh interval, TRMNL only generates new screen renders if the data fetched contains changes. Thus setting your layout to "Default" (which shows 2-3 days) but updating an event 4+ days in the future will not trigger a screen refresh.
Stay focused.