Sync private iCloud calendar with MagicMirror

[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

[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.

[sdetweil]

@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

[jlnxaer]

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!

[sdetweil]

@jlnxaer did u create a cron job entry?

[Tribun]

@jlnxaer what does the pm2 log show? Are error messages displayed at the log?

I also had this phenomenon recently, as the calendar did not syncronize automatically. I had an error message in the log. I no longer know the exact wording of the report.
For me it helped to delete and recreate the files under /home/pi/.vdirsyncer/status and the created * .ics files. after creating the data again with “vdirsyncer sync”, everything now runs automatically as described in the instructions.

[jlnxaer]

@sdetweil You refer to this, right?

# ┌───────────── 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)
# │ │ │ │ │
# │ │ │ │ │
# * * * * * 
*/5 * * * *

@Tribun The command for the pm2 log is just “pm2 logs” isn’t it? If yes there seems to be everything fine except for a “EADDRINUSE” Error…

EDIT: I just figured out, that I was missing a command after the Timings… I added that and now it seems to work just fine! Thank you very much guys :D

[Tribun]

@jlnxaer
(/home/pi/.vdirsyncer/status) is a hidden folder in /home/pi

you can also find the pm2 log in /home/pi/.pm2/logs this is also hidden.

[Beh]

Hi,

I have another hint related to the systemd timer that was originally described in my tutorial.
It is advised to download the vdirsyncer.service and vdirsyncer.timer directly from the web.

You need to adjust the path to the executable in the vdirsyncer.service file!
It defaults to ExecStart=/usr/bin/vdirsyncer sync, which can be wrong.

But probably it is in ~/.local/bin. (Can be different depending on your installation. Just check location with which vdirsyncer.

This should make the initially described automatic sync work again.

[Beh]

@Jaunney I don’t see that this has ben answered yet.

collections = [“UUID1”, “UUID2”, “UUID3”] is what I use in my config and it works.

Of course, you need to add a new calender to your calender module to make them visible on the mirror. You need one for every UUID. If you look into your target sync folder on the Pi, there should be 3 .ics files for each UUID. Those are, in fact, 3 separate calendars

[Nd_27]

Hey,
im new to this but trying my best.
The Sync with calendar works fine, but the sync to the reminders won’t work.
I added the “VTODO” but there are do VTODO in the *.ics File.
Does i have to do anything else and how the calendar shown the Reminders?

Sorry again, im very new and this is my very first project.

best regards
Niklas

[mwallis]

Ok … Trying to sync my iCal calendars and I get this every time:

error: Unknown error occurred: name 'r130' is not defined
error: Use `-vdebug` to see the full traceback.
error: 1 out of 1 tasks failed.

Any ideas?

[Assassins]

@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.

[sdetweil]

@assassins calendar is actually in the modules/default folder

[Assassins]

@sdetweil Yes i now, but i have do all the step, and this error come up

[sdetweil]

@assassins but u said the calendar folder was created. and its looking for the js file… so i think you didnt use the right folder

[Assassins]

@sdetweil The step to this synsc iCloud calendar is
mkdir /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/calendars

[sdetweil]

@assassins is there supposed to be a script added to that folder?

[Assassins]

@sdetweil No, only the .ics to you Icloud Calendar

[ggfuzzy]

Went through all the steps in the tutorial (including the modification to set the .service file to point to where vdirsyncer really lives [Thanks @Beh !]). Everything works, except that my .ics files are empty (0 length). I saw a reference to this early in the forum comments, but the poster said they eventually started working with no reason for the change. Anyone have any ideas?