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    Sync private iCloud calendar with MagicMirror

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    • BehB Offline
      Beh @Sammie1232
      last edited by

      @Sammie1232 Seems like the folder and/or the file do not exist. Please create them if they are not there.

      The folder needs to be owned by the current user. On a Raspi, this command would look like this: chown -R pi:pi /home/pi/.vdirsyncer

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        htilburgs
        last edited by

        You can make a iCloud Family Calendr ‘public’ by following the next steps:

        On an iPhone

        • Go to Calendar app
        • At the bottom you see ‘calendar’
          click on it
        • click on the ‘i’ behind the family calendar
          go to the bottom and make sure ‘public calendar’ is selected
        • select option ‘share’ and then select copy
          Now you have the public url and can use

        On a Mac

        • open calendar app
        • select the family calendar on the left
        • right click on the ‘wifi’ symbol
        • select settings for sharing
        • select public calendar and you can copy the url

        (still trying to learn JS, but not afraid to ask) ☺

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          Beh @htilburgs
          last edited by Beh

          @htilburgs This is exactly what I‘m trying to prevent/workaround with this tutorial.
          Using a public calendar URL allows anyone to see your calendars without any authentication at all. This way your calendars are open and accessible by anyone who knows the URL. (URLs can be crawled by machines ;))

          This here is just a secure method to sync your calendars.

          If you don‘t care about having your personal life available to anyone or anything, it‘s your business.

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            bachoo786 @Beh
            last edited by bachoo786

            @Beh thanks for this. everything is working fine for me just a small error I wanted to ask about in my /home/pi/.pm2/logs/MagicMirror-error.log, it complains the following:

            ERROR! Could not find main module js file for calendars
            

            Its not a show stopper but because the calendars folder is created in the modules folder this is why it is asking for a js file.

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              thisistheplace
              last edited by thisistheplace

              Hey, I hope someone can help.

              Everything is running fine, except my reminders.

              No matter I put item_types = [“VEVENT”] or item_types = [“VEVENT”, “VTODO”] in the config, it discovers everytime a collection named tasks “Erinnerungen” (which is reminders in german) but the tasks.ics is completely empty…

              Does anybody have a running configuration for icloud reminders?

              Since MMM-iCloud-Client seems not working anymore I’m also interested in fetching iCloud Birthdays.

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                bartzzz
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                  yk
                  last edited by

                  Having an issue with daylight savings. Could this be vidirsyncer?

                  https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/11538/default-calendar-daylight-savings-issue

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                    mdefrancesco
                    last edited by

                    So i’m not sure if anyone is still watching this thread but I’ve been banging my head against the wall trying to sync. The tutorial is awesome and clearly there was a ton of work put in, so I don’t ask questions lightly.

                    I followed the directions to the letter but i can’t seem to control the sync. one time it took 2.5 mins and the next time it took 9 mins.

                    here is my timer…
                    GNU nano 2.7.4 File: /etc/systemd/user/vdirsyncer.timer

                    [Unit]
                    Description=Synchronize vdirs

                    [Timer]
                    OnBootSec=1m
                    OnUnitActiveSec=1m
                    AccuracySec=1m

                    [Install]
                    WantedBy=timers.target

                    that’s the only thing i have changed. it’s like i can’t get the sync to activate.
                    I have maybe 5 different modules running but nothing crazy (weather, clock, jeopardy, etc)

                    if i manually vdirsyncer sync and then reload the mirror AWESOME, no problems. just cant get the damn timer to work

                    any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated…I’m still new to all this so thanks

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                    • BehB Offline
                      Beh
                      last edited by Beh

                      @mdefrancesco Sorry for the late reply.

                      Hmm… that’ weird. Did you get it working by now?

                      If not:
                      Did you use the --user flag when activating the timer? And what does systemctl --user status vdirsyncer.timer say?
                      And did you try different times in the timer file? I could imagine that setting everything to 1 minute could cause problems…

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                        cagey
                        last edited by

                        @Beh first and foremost, thank you very much for setting out clear and detailed instructions. I’m a complete newbie but by following your instructions it works perfectly.

                        I saw that, when I run “vdircyncer discover”, I receive a list of all my calenders and, in addition, my iCloud reminders. The reminders seem to have similar UUIDs to the calendars.

                        I tried following the same process for my “Family” reminders by creating a CALDAV sync (in the vdirsyncer config file) called “pair iCloudTD_to_MagicMirrorTD”, including the Family UUID in the “collections” section and creating a %.ics file in /MagicMirror/modules/calendars/%s.ics. I have items_types as “VEVENT”, “VTODO”.

                        I also inserted the %.ics file as a calendar entry in the “calendar” module in MagicMirror.

                        However, the to do list does not appear in MM (it just says “No upcoming events”). The calendar however works perfectly.

                        I’m guessing it’s not possible to import iCloud reminders in the same way as iCloud calendars but I thought I’d ask before I spend more time reading through the vdirsyncer documentation and other Google searches.

                        Is there a config setting I’m missing or is it not possible at all? I’m struggling to understand the difference between VTODO and reminders.

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