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The Calendar shows when episodes air and when movies are released, for everything in your library, so you can see what is coming and what is overdue. You can also subscribe to it from Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook or any other calendar app. Everyone who can sign in can open the Calendar; the iCal button is part of the same page.

Find it in the left menu under Calendar.

What appears on it

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  • Episodes, on their air date. If Arclight knows the air time, the event shows that time (in your browser’s local time). Otherwise it is an all-day item.
  • Movies, on their release dates: in cinemas, digital release and physical release each show up as their own entry.

By default only monitored items are shown. Turn on Show unmonitored to include the rest. See Library for what monitored means.

Views

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Use the buttons at the top right to change the view:

View What it shows
Month A grid of the whole month. Not available on narrow phone screens, where the Agenda is used instead.
Week Seven days.
Day A single day.
Agenda A plain list of the anchor month, day by day.

Use the arrows to move to the previous or next month, week or day, and Today to jump back to the present. The title shows the range you are looking at.

The search box under the header filters every view to the matching events: series, movie, album or book title, episode title, or an episode code such as s01e02. The count says how many of the events in the range match; every word you type must match, upper or lower case does not matter, and dots, dashes and underscores count as spaces. The search is kept in the address bar, so a reload or a shared link keeps it.

Colors

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A legend under the title explains the colors of the event bars:

Color Meaning
Downloaded You have the file.
Upcoming Not aired yet, or the air date is to be announced.
Missing It should be out, but there is no file.

Unmonitored items are drawn dimmer than monitored ones.

Clicking an event

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Click an event bar to open a small card with the poster, title, episode code and name, date and time, and a status chip. The buttons are:

  • Open: go to the series or movie page.
  • Search: look for a release now. It is hidden for items that are already downloaded, not yet aired, or have no air date.

If nothing is scheduled for the month you are looking at, the page says “Nothing scheduled this month” and suggests moving to another month or showing unmonitored items.

iCal feed (subscribe from another app)

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Click iCal on the Calendar page to get a link your calendar app can subscribe to.

  1. Open Calendar and click iCal.
  2. Set Past days (default 7) and Future days (default 28). These decide how far back and ahead the feed reaches. Both can be 0 to 3650.
  3. Optionally switch on Include unmonitored.
  4. Click the copy button next to Feed URL.
  5. In your calendar app, add a new calendar by URL (“Add calendar from URL” or “Subscribe”) and paste it.

Good to know:

  • The link contains a secret token, because calendar apps cannot log in. Anyone with the link can read your calendar, so do not post it publicly.
  • The feed looks like http://<your-host>:<port>/api/v1/calendar/feed.ics?token=.... Your calendar app must be able to reach that address. If you use it away from home, you need a reverse proxy or VPN into your network; the feed does not work from outside by itself.
  • Episodes are entries titled Series - S01E02 - Episode title, with the overview as the description. Movies are all-day entries titled Movie (Digital release) and so on.
  • Calendar apps refresh subscribed feeds on their own schedule, often every few hours to a day.
  • Regenerate URL creates a new token. The old link stops working immediately, and every calendar app using it stops updating until you give it the new link. Use it if the link leaks. The page asks you to confirm.

Preferences

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Two display preferences change how the Calendar looks. Set them in Settings > General, in the UI section, then click Save preferences. They belong to your user account.

Setting Default What it does
First day of week Monday Choose Monday or Sunday as the first column of the month and week views.
Time format 24-hour 12-hour or 24-hour times on events.
Date format Follows your language How dates are written. An example is shown next to the choices.
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