Sync private iCloud calendar with MagicMirror

[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?

[JamesScreech]

The problem with not updating looks like it’s related to one of my calendars not having any entries in the requested timescale. If all calendars have entries then they sync however if one (in my case the last one) has no entries then there are no updates. Very strange.

[raisins]

@Gailby said in Sync private iCloud calendar with MagicMirror:

@Gailby @ganther @Beh the ics files doesn’t seem to sync in Calendars… all files are empty. Have anyone resolved this?

@ganther said in Sync private iCloud calendar with MagicMirror:

Hi there,
i followed the instructions, my calendars are shown in discovery.
I copied the UUID and it starts syncing, but the saved files are 0kb.
I tried several calendars and checked the UUID’s but can’t find any mistake?

any ideas?
thanks!!

@ganther said in Sync private iCloud calendar with MagicMirror:

@maestro82
Did you check your calendar-url in conf/config.js?

My calendar is running now correctly. Don‘t know why but now my ics-file isn‘t empty anymore.

@ggfuzzy said in Sync private iCloud calendar with MagicMirror:

Went through all the steps in the tutorial (including the modification to set the .service file to point to where vdirsyncer really lives [Thanks @Beh !]). Everything works, except that my .ics files are empty (0 length). I saw a reference to this early in the forum comments, but the poster said they eventually started working with no reason for the change. Anyone have any ideas?

I’m getting this same thing. The .ics files are created, but they’re empty. Everything up to there is working. The iCloud credentials must be correct as it’s talking to me and I can see the names and uuids of the remote calendars when I use “vdirsync discover”. I just don’t get any events into the local files with “vdirsync sync”.

I’m aware this is more a vdirsync issue than MagicMirror, but did any of you folks having this problem ever figure it out?

[aceahspades]

Hello! I can get to the point where I update my collections, but when I run the discover feature again and enter y + enter I get this error message

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

Is there a fix for this?