Notifications not showing on Mac

[kaitlin]

Hi,
I have set up 3 different local Vivaldi calendars, and have events added to each of them. For each calendar I have set notifications to be a System Notification with sound, 30 mins before the event. Occasionally I get a notification but mostly I don't. Yesterday, for some reason I suddenly got a whole day's worth of notifications late in the day. Today, every event is passing without a notification. I've tried restarting the browser, opening/closing the Calendar pane, but nothing seems to trigger the notifications.

I'm using a Mac running Catalina, so wondered if there's a known bug?

Thanks.

[kaitlin]

Update on this: I have just noticed that all the events in my calendar are being created with the wrong timezone, yet I don't appear to be able to change this universally. It seems I have to edit the timezone for every single event. Surely this can't be right?

[mib2berlin]

@kaitlin
Hi, check Preferred Date & Time Formt in vivaldi://settings/general/
No idea what happen for existing events bit it is the only setting to change time zones.
Please add your Vivaldi version.

Cheers, mib

[kaitlin]

@mib2berlin

Hi, before I wrote the forum post, I had already tried changing the Preferred Date & Time format from "inherit from OS" to "Same as selected language" (en-GB). It made no difference as the timezone was still defaulting to Europe/Lisbon, instead of Europe/London.

However, currently these 2 time zones are at the same local time, so this isn't where the problem is. Today I've had no notifications at all, despite there being 7 events in my calendar. I'm afraid I've given up and gone back to Google Calendar..

Vivaldi version is 4.3.2439.65 (Stable channel) (x86_64)

Thanks

[mib2berlin]

@kaitlin
Can you check how it looks in the Vivaldi webmail calendar, if it is synced to the Vivaldi calendar client?
I kicked G. calendar several month ago and have no problems so far.
If the web mail shows the correct time you can delete the account in Vivaldi and add it again, it should sync all events again.

Cheers, mib

[kaitlin]

I'm not sure where the V webmail calendar is? I view the calendar from the Vivaldi browser menu bar. Where would I be syncing it? Why would I use the webmail calendar? I'm not using Vivaldi as a mail client at all, as I'm happy with using the gmail webmail.

I've been using Vivaldi for a few weeks (including the calendar) and had notifications at first, but they've just stopped recently, which I don't understand.

Thanks

[mib2berlin]

@kaitlin
If you create a Vivaldi account you get a mail address and a calendar at https://webmail.vivaldi.net
but I guess you use a local calendar without syncing.
I am out of ideas now, maybe a Vivaldi developer steps by, they watch the mail and calendar thread. Not at weekends, I fear.

Cheers, mib

[kaitlin]

@mib2berlin

Hi, yes I have been using local calendars without syncing because I tried to sync with the Google calendar on my android phone and couldn't get it work.

However, today I suddenly received all the alerts from yesterday's events, but have nothing at all from today's events..! This is making no sense at all to me, but thanks very much for your help.

[mib2berlin]

@kaitlin
I use Google calendar first until I kick it, iirc I set accept application password and add Vivaldi to the trusted application list.
May I check later today with my test installation.

Cheers, mib

[mib2berlin]

@kaitlin
Hi, I test Google calendar in Vivaldi 4.3.2439.65 (Stable channel) (64-Bit), I delete the local calendar (not needed I guess), create a new one, choose Google calendar, type in my mail address. A pop up from Google appears and I had to log in and set Vivaldi for accept to change/delete calendar events and as trusted application.
I created a event in the Google web calendar and it sync with the Vivaldi calendar client.
I cant imagine it is a mac issue but i had test this on Windows 11 and Linux, only.

Cheers, mib

[kaitlin]

Hi mib,

Thanks for your efforts. However, I'm not trying to use Google at all - I simply want to use the Vivaldi calendar (not the web calendar), but as I'm not receiving any notifications for events created in Vivaldi until the day after they occur, it's simply no use to me.

The problem is with notifications in Vivaldi - nothing to do with Google at all. I do appreciate your help though

Carol

[eggert]

@kaitlin Do you have Vivaldi running the whole day or is it shut down? Do you get the bunch of notifications when starting Vivaldi?

We don't have any known issues of behaviour like this, but that is no proof of absence.

Thanks for testing out Vivaldi calendar and taking the time to report problems.

Kv. Eggert

[kaitlin]

@eggert Hi, I usually have Vivaldi running all day and leave the Mac on sleep overnight. When I look the next morning, I usually have a bunch of alerts from the previous day. I've just checked my calendar and there are 2 events this afternoon that have passed without notification, so it appears that the problem is still there.

It was working when I first starting using Vivaldi, but sometime last week the notifications stopped. To confirm, I'm using local calendars only, not the remote calendar.

Thank you
Carol

[eggert]

@kaitlin That is strange, we will have to investigate this issue. Could you test for me if it makes any difference to use other types of notifications?

And a bug report for this would be appreciated if you can, https://vivaldi.com/bugreport/ It is easier to track there than on the forums.

Kv. Eggert

[kaitlin]

I have 3 local calendars, so I've set each of them to have a different type of notification - Dialog, Melt Browser, Burn Browser. I've set up new events for each calendar for tomorrow morning - I'll let you know what happens.

Once I've performed this test, I'll then file a bug report, as I'll have more info.

Many thanks

Carol