Apple calendar & server only mode

sdetweil

url in calendar config

http://192.168.1.188:8080/home/node/MagicMirror/modules/calendars/Stuf.ics

no. the MagicMirror http server root is the MagicMirror folder, so anything you need to access via the http server has to be in that folder tree

you CAN link ( ln command) something outside that tree into the tree.

I typically advise making a data dir
mkdir ~/MagicMirror/data
and linking into that
sudo ln -s real fake
cd ~/MagicMirror/data
sudo ln-s xxxxxx.ics Stuf.ics
xxxxxx.is is the real absolute path and name of the file

the in config.js the url is
http://ocalhost:8080/data/Stuf.ics

also you could have used pm2 to launch the syncer

dubbedMonster

@sdetweil

Thanks for the feedback. I was able to get a sample event to show in the calendar.

When looking at the the config.js, I was thinking that meant of the entire filesystem and not MM install directory (didn’t read that line close enough)

I made the following changes

On hose machine
config.js

url: "http:/0.0.0.0:8080/modules/calendars/1FC43665-307D-4E49-A0C5-914CA52E07EB.ics",

On Docker
~/.vdirsyncer/config

path = "/opt/magic_mirror/modules/calendars/%s.ics"

Ran the following code

vdirsyncer sync --force-delete iCloud_to_MagicMirror/Stuff

vdirsyncer sync

Everything looks good and works! Thank you again for the help

sdetweil

@dubbedMonster said in Apple calendar & server only mode:

http:/0.0.0.0

cool… but you should NOT use 0.0.0.0 on a url.

0.0.0.0 means ANY network interface… it is ‘supposed’ to be reserved for LISTENERs (server apps) …

if the server would server the file from the SAME system at the requestor, then the correct term is localhost

dubbedMonster

@sdetweil

I don’t think I fully understand, but I’m following you. I made the change to localhost and everything still works.

Does the same thing apply to the “address” in the config.js?

sdetweil

@dubbedMonster said in Apple calendar & server only mode:

Does the same thing apply to the “address” in the config.js?

no… in config.js you are configuring the MM http server

so address:0.0.0.0 means listen for incoming requests on ALL active network interfaces (think ethernet and wifi)… without YOU having to specify their actual assigned IP addresses

if you WANTED ONLY requests from WIFI attached devices, then you would put in the wifi configured IP address … requests from ethernet attached devices would be ignored

(see the results of the ip addr command)

0.0.0.0 is a shortcut when u have multiple adapters and only can supply ONE address on the network listen request…
(else you would have to do multiple requests… the network guys like LESS work!!)

if you use my MMM-Config module to configure MM… I provide the address of the different networks and you can pick one (to change from default locahost for example) if you want to be network restrictive

localhost
0.0.0.0
etc

dubbedMonster

@sdetweil

Thanks for the explanation and the help!