Sync private iCloud calendar with MagicMirror

[schwoediauer]

@bgz Good morning Create an “hidden” folder by command mkdir .vdirsyncer, and check it by command ls - lisa

[ribermon]

Also you have to create first the file, it does not exist, so first create it following the path said by Beh and inside the folder create the file

[ildottore]

@Beh: First I want to thank you for this tutorial! Great job!

It syncs my iCloud calender fine, but not birthdays which are placed from the contacts app.

Can someone advice me?

Thanks in advance!

[bgz]

@schwoediauer

Thanks schwoediauer and the others.
I finally got it and it is up & syncing!!

[Beh]

@ildottore I configured the syncer config to only synchronize calendar events with the property item_types = ["VEVENT"]. The CalDav function only supports the items like "VEVENT" and "VTODO".

I think, that iOS/macOS does not store the birthdays directly in the calendars but adds the birthdays via the Contacts.app to the Calendar.app.

Maybe you can achieve showing birthdays by syncing the contacts with vdirsyncer as described in the docs here and somehow extract the birthdays. But I think this would be quite costly…

Or you can use the MagicMirror module MMM-iCloud-Client maybe…

[ganther]

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!!

[Gailby]

@Beh Everything works fine until I’ll try to save the config file:

1. ~/.vdirsyncer/config directory cannot be found
2. Once I manuals create directories I also save config file as config.cfg and also tried config.config and save
3. I haven’t filled in collections = [“HERE-GOES-THE-UUID-OF-THE-CALENDAR-YOU-WANT-TO-SYNC”] in conf. Could this make it crash?
4. Running curl for timer ok.
   5.Then when vdirsyncer discover nothing happens I get Errno 21 and that’s where I get stuck…

Really wonder what might be the issues here?

[ganther]

@Gailby
The file is named config. It‘s not a directory, it‘s the name of the file. (No ending).

[Gailby]

@ganther so if I put config in ~/.vdirsyncer/config it should work?
I think I did try it but somehow wansn’t able to read it as a file nor save and getting empty file and no result forward…

[ganther]

@Gailby
Yes. Just type these commands as given:

touch ~/.vdirsyncer/config
nano ~/.vdirsyncer/config