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    A New Chapter for MagicMirror: The Community Takes the Lead
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    Sync private iCloud calendar with MagicMirror

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    • MarosM Offline
      Maros
      last edited by

      Or is there any posibility how to add birthday ? Google calendar maybe?

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      • justjim1220J Offline
        justjim1220 Module Developer @Maros
        last edited by

        @maros

        there is a default calendar module that automatically came with MM2

        And there are others, I personally like MMM-CalendarExt.

        "Life's Too Short To Dance With Ugly People"
        Jim Hallock - 1995

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        • MarosM Offline
          Maros
          last edited by

          Yes but is there possibility to add birthday calendar ?
          Icloud or google ?

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          • justjim1220J Offline
            justjim1220 Module Developer @Maros
            last edited by

            @maros

            I work mainly with Google, I haven’t personally used iCloud. Have also worked with Yahoo and Hotmail. Google is my favorite…

            This is my list of calendars:
            0_1533243435622_Screenshot (22).png

            And, this is how I put into my calendar module…

            "calendars": [
              {
                "name": "Family Stuff",
                "symbol": "heart@fa",
                "url": "Calendar link here",
                "interval": 24*60*60*1000
              },
              {
                "name": "US Holiday",
                "url": "Calendar link here",
                "symbol": "gift@fa",
                "interval": 24*60*60*1000,
                "maxEntries": 50, "maxDays":365
              },
              {
                 "name": "Birthdays",
                 "symbol": "birthday-cake",
                 "url": "Calendar link here"
              },
              {
              // "name": "KC Chiefs",
                 "symbol": "football-ball@fa",
                 "url": "Calendar link here",
                 "interval": 24*60*60*1000
              },
              {
                 "name": "NFL Games",
                 "url": "Calendar link here",
                 "symbol": "football-ball@fa",
                 "interval": 24*60*60*1000
              },
              {
                 "name": "NFL Playoff Games",
                 "url": "Calendar link here",
                 "symbol": "football-ball@fa",
                 "interval": 24*60*60*1000
              },
            ],
            

            "Life's Too Short To Dance With Ugly People"
            Jim Hallock - 1995

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            • AlbinolanA Offline
              Albinolan @justjim1220
              last edited by

              @justjim1220 We are all able to do that, to clarify the issue. The objective is to find a way to use an iCloud calendar without having a public url, which is what your google calendar is currently using. By using a public URL, web crawlers are able to find and read your calendar events.

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              • AlbinolanA Offline
                Albinolan @Maros
                last edited by

                @maros you can add the bday calendar in the default calendar module by making your iCloud calendar public (tick the box circled in this screenshot), and you should be given a link that you can copy into the config file.
                If you want to use google calendars, it should be similar. Just look up how to publicly share a google calendar, and get the link from there to put into your config.

                0_1533261220454_Screen Shot 2018-08-03 at 11.48.03 am.png

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                • AlbinolanA Offline
                  Albinolan @Maros
                  last edited by

                  @maros One problem (which this thread was originally trying to solve) was the inability to prevent others from accessing the calendar. If a web crawler can find your link, they too will be able to read your calendar.

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                  • MarosM Offline
                    Maros
                    last edited by Maros

                    @Albinolan but in icloud calendar Birthday calendar have not option to public.

                    it’s marked as others

                    @justjim1220 i’ve tried also this in gmail i’ve copied url for birthday calendar (public url to this calendar) and add it to my calendar module

                    {
                    symbol: “calendar”,
                    url: “https://calendar.google.com/calendar/xxxxxxxxxxxx”
                    },

                    but it’s not showing any upcomming birthday

                    ok i’ve made temporary solution but it’s not ideal …

                    what i’ve done - open Google Calendar - Export and Import
                    exported all calendars to .ics
                    i’ve copied birthday calendar to rpi (using scp birthday.ics pi@:MagicMirror/modules/calendars)

                    in config.js i’ve creaded new entry for newly created calendar.

                    problem is it’s static so if you want to add new birthday you have to edit file birthday.ics

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                    • J Offline
                      jhp392819
                      last edited by

                      @Beh

                      First, thank you! This is great. I got three different iCal calendars to all work perfectly.

                      I can’t, however, seem to get a holiday calendar to show. The vdirsyncer discover doesn’t show the iCal US Holiday calendar, so I can’t use the one that is provided by iCloud. So I decided to use the calendarlabs that comes as a default with MagicMirror. But it’s showing up on electron when I npm start

                      I’ve included my code below. Can anyone tell me why the calendarlabs US holiday calendar isn’t showing up?

                      Do I need to create a 4th .ics file form calendarlabs to store locally to use with vdirsyncer? Is that why the default code in MagicMirror for calendarlabs no longer works?

                      Thanks.

                      {
                          module: 'calendar',
                          position: 'top_left',   // This can be any of the regions. Best results in left or right regions.
                          config: {
                              colored: true,   // Activate coloring
                              maximumNumberOfDays: 10,
                              maximumEntries: 7,
                      	timeFormat: 12,
                              calendars: [
                                      // "ME Calendar"
                                      {
                                              url: 'http://localhost:8080/modules/calendars/home.ics',
                                              symbol: 'calendar',
                                              color: '#5bc0de'   // Assign color
                                      },
                                      // "YOU Calendar"
                                      {
                                              url: 'http://localhost:8080/modules/calendars/work.ics',
                                              symbol: 'calendar',
                                              color: '#FFF000'  // Assign color
                                      },
                      		// "ME & YOU Calendar"
                                     	{
                                          	url: 'http://localhost:8080/modules/calendars/65839DD3-D523-48E6-931B-D2DB201A1C36.ics',
                                              symbol: 'calendar',
                                              color: '#5bbf21'  // Assign color
                                     	},
                      		// "Holiday Calendar"
                                     	{
                                          	url: 'http://www.calendarlabs.com/templates/ical/US-Holidays.ics',
                                              symbol: 'calendar',
                                              color: '#ab00ff'  // Assign color
                                     	}
                      
                              ]
                          }
                      },
                      
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                      • Y Offline
                        yk
                        last edited by

                        Fantastic effort! Thanks!
                        I’ve got everything working except the timer functionality (just doesn’t seem to take). Any ideas?

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