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    • D Offline
      duxnobis
      last edited by

      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

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        duxnobis @elliot1996
        last edited by

        @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?

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          tobias789
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            Feedy88 @duxnobis
            last edited by

            @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?

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              Feedy88
              last edited by

              @elliot1996 @duxnobis not sure if anyone is still following, but I was able to get the automated sync with a work around through cronjob. Step-by-step guide below:

              1. Create Shell script

              First we need to create the script which is actually executed by the cronjob. To do this we open a terminal and type

              nano ~/MagicMirror/modules/calendars/vdirsyncer.sh

              Within the editor we just write a one-liner:

              vdirsyncer -vinfo sync
              

              Close by CTRL+X and save by confirming with Y

              1. Make script executable.

              Within terminal type

              chmod +x ~/MagicMirror/modules/calendars/vdirsyncer.sh

              1. Test the script

              Run a test if your script works. Within terminal type

              bash ~/MagicMirror/modules/calendars/vdirsyncer.sh

              If working as intended you should receive the feedback

              Syncing iCloud_to_MagicMirror/YOUR-CALENDAR-UUID

              1. Checking/Changing the Version of vdirsyncer

              This was actually my biggest issue. I could sync successfully when running the script manually but the actual cronjob failed. Looking into Debug-Logs I found that the manual run used Version 0.16.8 of vdirsyncer while the cronjob used 0.16.7. After manually chaning the versioning if worked as inteded. To ensue you are not running into that issue, let’s check the versioning from the get-go. Within Terminal type

              sudo nano /usr/bin/vdirsyncer

              An editor will show you the following code:

              #!/usr/bin/python3
              # EASY-INSTALL-ENTRY-SCRIPT: 'vdirsyncer==0.16.7','console_scripts','vdirsyncer'
              __requires__ = 'vdirsyncer==0.16.7'
              import re
              import sys
              from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
              
              if __name__ == '__main__':
                  sys.argv[0] = re.sub(r'(-script\.pyw?|\.exe)?$', '', sys.argv[0])
                  sys.exit(
                      load_entry_point('vdirsyncer= q=0.16.7', 'console_scripts', 'vdirsyncer')()
                  )
              

              Change all three instances of 0.16.7to 0.16.8, close via CTRL+X and save with Y.

              1. Create the Cronjob

              Cronjobs are a great thing. It is pre-installed with UNIX based systems, therefore also with our Raspberry Pi. More information about Cronjobs can be found here. To set up a new cronjob, within Terminal type

              crontab -e

              The result will be the following code:

              # Edit this file to introduce tasks to be run by cron.
              #
              # Each task to run has to be defined through a single line
              # indicating with different fields when the task will be run
              # and what command to run for the task
              # 
              # To define the time you can provide concrete values for
              # minute (m), hour (h), day of month (dom), month (mon),
              # and day of week (dow) or use '*' in these fields (for 'any').
              # 
              # Notice that tasks will be started based on the cron's system
              # daemon's notion of time and timezones.
              # 
              # Output of the crontab jobs (including errors) is sent through
              # email to the user the crontab file belongs to (unless redirected).
              # 
              # For example, you can run a backup of all your user accounts
              # at 5 a.m every week with:
              # 0 5 * * 1 tar -zcf /var/backups/home.tgz /home/
              # 
              # For more information see the manual pages of crontab(5) and cron(8)
              # 
              # m h  dom mon dow   command
              

              Type a new line at the bottom with the cron syntax. Here is an overview for the timings:

              # ┌───────────── minute (0 - 59)
              # │ ┌───────────── hour (0 - 23)
              # │ │ ┌───────────── day of the month (1 - 31)
              # │ │ │ ┌───────────── month (1 - 12)
              # │ │ │ │ ┌───────────── day of the week (0 - 6) (Sunday to Saturday;
              # │ │ │ │ │                                   7 is also Sunday on some systems)
              # │ │ │ │ │
              # │ │ │ │ │
              # * * * * * <command to execute>
              

              As for us it makes senst to run vdirsyncer every X minutes (I am going with 5 minutes in my case) the syntax looks as follows:

              */5 * * * *
              

              followed by the script to execute:

              bash ~/MagicMirror/modules/calendars/vdirsyncer.sh >> ~/vdirsyncer.log 2>&1

              The first part should be familiar to you. What follows after the >> is a log we are creating. This will be helpful in case anything does not work as inteded. The full cronjob should look as follows:

              # Edit this file to introduce tasks to be run by cron.
              #
              # Each task to run has to be defined through a single line
              # indicating with different fields when the task will be run
              # and what command to run for the task
              # 
              # To define the time you can provide concrete values for
              # minute (m), hour (h), day of month (dom), month (mon),
              # and day of week (dow) or use '*' in these fields (for 'any').
              # 
              # Notice that tasks will be started based on the cron's system
              # daemon's notion of time and timezones.
              # 
              # Output of the crontab jobs (including errors) is sent through
              # email to the user the crontab file belongs to (unless redirected).
              # 
              # For example, you can run a backup of all your user accounts
              # at 5 a.m every week with:
              # 0 5 * * 1 tar -zcf /var/backups/home.tgz /home/
              # 
              # For more information see the manual pages of crontab(5) and cron(8)
              # 
              # m h  dom mon dow   command
              */5 * * * * bash ~/MagicMirror/modules/calendars/vdirsyncer.sh >> ~/vdirsyncer.log 2>&1
              

              Close again by CTRL+X. You are now ready and have everything set up. The cronjob will start automatically on every startup and run the sync in the interval you have set it up.

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                sdetweil @Feedy88
                last edited by sdetweil

                @Feedy88 and if u edit your script and make the 1st line
                #!/bin/bash

                when the script is invoked it will launch the script using bash so all the bash symbols, redirection etc can be moved into the script, and you just use the script and to.launch it

                /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/calendars/vdirsyncer.sh

                also, cron typically executes commands as root, so ~/filename will try to write to /root/filename, but not where u intended. so use the full path

                /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/calendars/vdirsyncer.sh

                Sam

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                  Feedy88 @sdetweil
                  last edited by Feedy88

                  @sdetweil Thanks for the notes, but can you explain a bit more into detail. You mean, if I add

                  #!/bin/bash as first line to the script, I can also add the logging part and remove it from the cron?

                  To be honest, I’m quite a noob to Linux based systems and scripts. Nonetheless, hope my answer will help some people to get the sync going who have issues with the timer service from vdirsyncer.

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                    sdetweil @Feedy88
                    last edited by

                    @Feedy88 yes, if you use the exec command in the script you can capture stdout & stderr and pipe them to a file

                    LOG_FILE=filename

                    Open standard out at $LOG_FILE for write.

                    This has the effect

                    exec 1>$LOG_FILE

                    Redirect standard error to standard out such that

                    standard error ends up going to wherever standard

                    out goes (the file).

                    exec 2>&1

                    normal rest of your script

                    Sam

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                    learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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                      jlnxaer
                      last edited by

                      Hello Guys,

                      I’m fairly new to the whole Raspberry Pi Thing.
                      I got the whole Calendar up and running. My only problem is, that it is not syncing automatically…
                      Do you guys know any fix for this problem?

                      The fix from @Feedy88 didn’t work for me unfortunately.

                      Cheers!

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                        sdetweil @jlnxaer
                        last edited by

                        @jlnxaer did u create a cron job entry?

                        Sam

                        How to add modules

                        learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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