Sync private iCloud calendar with MagicMirror

Saabman

Just wanted to say thanks for posting these instructions just secured my calendar. Much apreciated

anhanyoung

@Beh Okay, I apologize because I’m sure this is a very basic question but how do you create an array in the config? I tried doing [], [] but that didn’t work.

Also, I keep getting this error when discovering and press y.

Should vdirsyncer attempt to create it? [y/N]: y
error: Unknown error occurred: [Errno 13] Permission denied: ‘/home/pi’

How can I bypass this?

anhanyoung

@sdetweil Any idea why I’m getting an error when running discover and saying yes to sync?

error: Unknown error occurred: [Errno 13] Permission denied: ‘/home/pi’
error: Use -vdebug to see the full traceback.

sdetweil

@anhanyoung I do not know anything about this syncing tool, never had to use it

anhanyoung91

@Saabman do you know how to get the syncer to work? I keep getting an error saying I don’t have permissions to /home/pi

sdetweil

@anhanyoung91 please don’t double post, all posts from users w reputation below 2 are reviewed

sdetweil

@anhanyoung how to create array

 name_of_field: [],

you are not just creating an array. you are creating a field that IS an array

anhanyoung91

@sdetweil sounds good. Sorry about that. New to this forum and I wanted to tag him too. I suppose I could have just used @

Saabman

@anhanyoung91 Hi, I just followed the instructions on the first page.
I did have an issue at one point and it was just because I didn’t follow the instructions exactly as written.
If your getting an error Permission denied: /home/pi to me that sounds like you may not have the path to the vdirsyncer status folder set right. It appears it is trying to write to the /home/pi folder rather than ~/.vdirsyncer/status/

Id go through the steps again and make sure you don’t skip anything.

As for the array issue in the vdirsyncer config I have 2 calendars I sync and the line looks something like this
where home is my main calendar and the random number string is my birthdays calendar.

collections = ["home","57B7E3E-AB79-4DC3-9CF1-A63EB181DB"]

hope that helps

anhanyoung91

@Saabman thank you so much for the reply. I’ll trace my steps and give it a shot!