Sync private iCloud calendar with MagicMirror

[elliot1996]

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[Beh]

@thisistheplace I never tried syncing VTODO. All I can do here, is to refer to the vdirsyncer docs regarding this topic: https://vdirsyncer.pimutils.org/en/stable/config.html?highlight=VEVENT#storage-caldav

Unfortunately you have to dig into that yourself, my time is very limted currently…

[Beh]

@elliot1996 I would need more information to help you debug this. Are you sure you used the right directory for the file? And you used the --user option when executing systemctl?

Everything you need to know about systemd unit files is here: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.unit.html

The file must be in one of the directories mentioned at the top of the page.

[elliot1996]

@Beh I’m sure I have installed it in the right directory, I followed :curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pimutils/vdirsyncer/master/contrib/vdirsyncer.timer | sudo tee /etc/systemd/user/vdirsyncer.timer firstly under the MagicMirror Directory. Then activating using systemctl --user enable vdirsyncer.timer.

When looking at the status I get : Warning: The unit file, source configuration file or drop-ins of vdirsyncer.timer changed on disk. Run ‘systemctl --user daemon-reload’ to rel
● vdirsyncer.timer - Synchronize vdirs
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/user/vdirsyncer.timer; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Drop-In: /home/smartm/.config/systemd/user/vdirsyncer.timer.d
└─override.conf
Active: inactive (dead)
Trigger: n/a

Apr 13 18:38:50 smartm-Latitude-E6230 systemd[915]: /home/smartm/.config/systemd/user/vdirsyncer.timer.d/override.conf:1: Assignment outside o
Apr 13 18:38:50 smartm-Latitude-E6230 systemd[915]: /home/smartm/.config/systemd/user/vdirsyncer.timer.d/override.conf:2: Assignment outside o
Apr 13 18:46:21 smartm-Latitude-E6230 systemd[915]: /home/smartm/.config/systemd/user/vdirsyncer.timer.d/override.conf:1: Assignment outside o
Apr 13 18:46:21 smartm-Latitude-E6230 systemd[915]: /home/smartm/.config/systemd/user/vdirsyncer.timer.d/override.conf:2: Assignment outside o
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Anything you could do to help would be amazing! Been trying to get it going all day, my mirrors close to perfect!

[ShoeBox]

@Beh this is a great tutorial. Thanks!

[Jaunney]

@Beh

Hi!

Thank you for your great solution. All went well till I tried to sync more than one iCloud Calendars.
Something is getting confused I think.
Could you please make an example for the right syntax in the following section:
collections = [“UUID1”, “UUID2”, “UUID3”]
Something like this?

I also have now problems to sync two non-iCloud Calenders after the great confusion…
My module (I use MMM-CalendarExt2) only shows one iCloud-calendar.

Thanks for your help.

BEst regards

Jaunney

[duxnobis]

Hi. Try to participate as well :-). I am totally new to the Raspberry world and so to MM. I have set up using the step-by-step guide. Thanks for this a lot. Now that I have set this up as expected, the result is not as expected. The other modules work well. Also 3rd party ones. But the calendar says “No upcoming event”. I have managed to obtain the according icloud calendar ID for my PRIVATE calendar. Any idea what I could potentially have wrongly set up or installed?

---

● vdirsyncer.timer - Synchronize vdirs
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/user/vdirsyncer.timer; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: inactive (dead)
Trigger: n/a

---

pi@raspberrypi:~/.vdirsyncer $ vdirsyncer discover
Discovering collections for pair iCloud_to_MagicMirror
Mirror:

• “14Exxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxEF2”
  iCloud:
• “14Exxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxEF2” (“Patrick”)
• “73Fxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxB3F” (“Kalender”)
• “tasks” (“Erinnerungen”)
• “fc79xxxdf28cxxxxxxxxx42c0dxxxx7d6e3cf0xxxxxxcac0b2e4xxxxxxxxx” (“Peter”)
  Saved for iCloud_to_MagicMirror: collections = [“14Exxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxEF2”]

---

config file:

CALDAV Sync

[pair iCloud_to_MagicMirror]
a = “Mirror”
b = “iCloud”
collections = [“14Exxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxEF2”]

Calendars also have a color property

metadata = [“displayname”, “color”]

[storage Mirror]

We need a single .ics file for use with the mirror (Attention! This is really slow on big amounts of events.)

type = “singlefile”

We’ll put the calendar file to a readable location for the calendar module

path = “/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/calendars/%s.ics”

[storage iCloud]
type = “caldav”
url = “https://caldav.icloud.com/”

Authentication credentials

username = “xxxxxxxxxxx@mailprovider.com”
password = “xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx”

We only want to sync in the direction TO the mirror, so we make iCloud readonly

read_only = true

We only want to sync events

item_types = [“VEVENT”]

Can anyone of you help? Maybe you see what I did wrong or you know how I could check some points to see if I did something wrong.

Thanks for your inputs. Keep in mind, I am new in this ;-)
Patrick

[duxnobis]

@elliot1996 said in Sync private iCloud calendar with MagicMirror:

@Beh I’m sure I have installed it in the right directory, I followed :curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pimutils/vdirsyncer/master/contrib/vdirsyncer.timer | sudo tee /etc/systemd/user/vdirsyncer.timer firstly under the MagicMirror Directory. Then activating using systemctl --user enable vdirsyncer.timer.

When looking at the status I get : Warning: The unit file, source configuration file or drop-ins of vdirsyncer.timer changed on disk. Run ‘systemctl --user daemon-reload’ to rel
● vdirsyncer.timer - Synchronize vdirs
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/user/vdirsyncer.timer; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Drop-In: /home/smartm/.config/systemd/user/vdirsyncer.timer.d
└─override.conf
Active: inactive (dead)
Trigger: n/a

Hi mate. I have the exact same issue. I have everything now up and running. I managed to have two private ical calendars showing up in the mirror. If I sync manually and reload it works fine. Unfortunately I dont manage the damn thing to do it automatically, ideally triggered on an event or at least all few minutes. My settings in the timer are 1min, 2min, 3min. Just because Beh said to avoid all 1min settings. Any Idea?

[tobias789]

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[Feedy88]

@duxnobis @elliot1996 @Beh
Hey guys,
just checking in on this topic, as I also have issues with getting the timer to run while manual sync works fine.

• Files are in /etc/systemd/user/ (vdirsyncer.service & vdirsyncer.timer)
• Ran systemctl --user enable vdirsyncer.timer? (no error or any other feedback in Terminal)
• Checked jorunalctl --user -u vdirsyncer with the result:
  No journal files were found. -- No Entries --

I even went forward and tried to sync using a cronjob but this is unfortuately also not working:

error: Unknown error occured for iCloud_to_MagicMirror/9*******-****-****-****-************D: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='p65-caldav.icloud.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /1355377534/calendars/9*******-****-****-****-************D/ (Caused by SSLError(SSLError("bad handshake: Error([('SSL routines', 'tls_process_server_certificate', 'certificate verify failed')])")))
error: Use `-vdebug` to see the full traceback.
error: 1 out of 2 tasks failed.
Syncing iCloud_to_MagicMirror/9*******-****-****-****-************D

Anyone has an Idea?