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!

[anhanyoung91]

@Saabman I’ve literally re-done the steps over and over and I keep getting the permissions error. Have any other ideas what might be causing this or how to fix it? Thanks in advance

[sdetweil]

@anhanyoung91 did u do the tutorial

https://vdirsyncer.pimutils.org/en/stable/tutorial.html

[Alfnie]

I run into a problem with vdirsyncer (discover) which is raised some times before in this thread, but I can’t find the solution. I have tried with other internet resources to solve my problem, but I ran out of options. Hopefully one of you can help me troubleshoot.

1.) First, I successfully followed the steps of @Beh with additionally the clean, easy way from here:
https://vdirsyncer.pimutils.org/en/stable/installation.html#the-clean-hard-way

I got stuck at the part: Let vdirsyncer discover the collections and do the inital sync, with the command vdirsyncer discover. It returned:

adm@raspberrypi:~ $ vdirsyncer discover
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/adm/.local/bin/vdirsyncer", line 5, in <module>
    from vdirsyncer.cli import main
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'vdirsyncer'

2.) Second, I followed the routine from @mr190e, on page 13 in this thread (link), after i used pipx uninstall vdirsyncer from The clean, easy way.

Seems like I got to work again.

First of all, I installed vdirsyncer via
“sudo apt-get install vdirsyncer”,
and not using pip.

Now, vdirsyncer discover returns:

critical: Error during reading config /home/adm/.config/vdirsyncer/config: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/adm/.config/vdirsyncer/config'

Now I am out of tricks, I’m not sure how to troubleshoot this. What do I need to check, or to modify, to get it to work…

Thanks advance for your help!

[sdetweil]

@Alfnie so create the folder .config/.vdirsyncer

And add the config file there

[Alfnie]

@sdetweil
Thanks for your reply, it sounds simple, however it seems complicated for me.
I do as you say by taking these commands from the instruction (is this correct?)

mkdir /home/adm/.config/vdirsyncer/
touch /home/adm/.config/vdirsyncer/config
nano /home/adm/.config/vdirsyncer/config

It results in:

admns@raspberrypi:~ $ mkdir /home/adm/.config/vdirsyncer/
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/home/adm/.config/vdirsyncer/’: No such file or directory
admns@raspberrypi:~ $ touch /home/adm/.config/vdirsyncer/config
touch: cannot touch '/home/adm/.config/vdirsyncer/config': No such file or directory

How should I create the folder .config/.vdirsyncer as you pointed out?

[sdetweil]

@Alfnie you missed the . in front of vdirsyncer…

the dot on linux makes the folder ‘hidden’ from normal ls commands… as linux file system doesn’t have a hidden attribute

[sdetweil]

@Alfnie
who is adm? should be the current username (pi?)

always best to use the shortcut

~/.config

~ means the home folder of the current user , same as
/home/$USER

or /home/pi is pi is logged in

[Alfnie]

@sdetweil
Thanks, it works now.
Also, I have learned about the dot (.) implying Hidden folders, thanks.
Tomorrow I’m gonna try to add multiple calendars.

[kai]

Hi @Beh,

thank you very much for this detailed description. This was exactly what I was looking for for my MM, and with your step-by-step instructions it worked for me straight away.
Happy New Year and thank you very much again!!! :thumbs_up:

May the code be with you
-kai

[JamesScreech]

Thanks for the detailed description, I’ve done this and it works most of the time, however one of my calendars is not updating.
I know very little about Pi’s and am new to Linux it general, are there any suggestions on how to find issues?