Sync private iCloud calendar with MagicMirror

[spesh]

Does this allow the option for different icons for different calenders? I’m just starting to build mine and would like to sync two seperate iCloud calenders and have them display with different icons/colours

[Beh]

@spesh

Yes, this should allow multiple coloured calendars.
You just have to add the UUIDs for each calendar you want to sync to the collections array in your vdirsyncer config.
This should create multiple .ics files. One for each calendar. Then you could add each calendar to your MagicMirror config and use the color option described in the default calendar module for your calendars. Just add the colored option to your “global” module config and add a color option to each calendar.

A calendar config could look like this then (for “Calendar 1” and “Calendar 2” as described above):

{
    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,
        calendars: [
                // "Calendar 1"
                {
                        url: 'http://localhost:8080/modules/calendars/25CB285C-E163-4E0E-B420-C3FB469B7C00.ics',
                        symbol: 'calendar'
                        color: '#123456'   // Assign color
                },
                // "Calendar 2"
                {
                        url: 'http://localhost:8080/modules/calendars/221FEE8-E8B4-4D07-9402-8638529919EC.ics',
                        symbol: 'calendar'
                        color: '#ABCDEF1'  // Assign color
                }
        ]
    }
},

[Doubleve]

hello how do we get the links calendars icloud thank you

[Beh]

@Doubleve What do you mean?

[Doubleve]

I will like my 3 calendars icloud but I do not see the links of the style
https://p02calendars.icloud.com/published/2/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxQhtoAvoFiIwGI1
To have UUID

[Beh]

@Doubleve You don’t need these links, since vdircsyncer discovers your calendars automatically on iCloud and identifies them by their IDs.

It is explained in the “Let vdirsyncer discover the collections and do the inital sync” section of the walkthrough.

You mirror accesses the calendar saved to a file on your mirror.

[Doubleve]

@Beh error for discover

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/vdirsyncer”, line 7, in
from vdirsyncer.cli import main
ImportError: No module named ‘vdirsyncer’

[Beh]

@Doubleve Did you change the first line of the file to #!/usr/bin/python3 ?

[Doubleve]

everything is good

[l0cal]

That sounds good for me. Does it work with reminders on the same way?

[Beh]

@Doubleve Hmmm…

Maybe you have to allow your localhost address to the MagicMirror ipWhiteList option in your config. Just add ipWhitelist: ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1"], to your config right before the modules option. Maybe the calendar module can not access the .ics file if this is not allowed…

[Beh]

@l0cal Yes this should work.

Just add "VTODO" to the item_types array in your vdirsyncer config as described in the vdirsyncer docs here: https://vdirsyncer.pimutils.org/en/stable/config.html?highlight=VEVENT#storage-caldav.

[l0cal]

@Beh yeah that are good news for me.

in the last few weeks I was looking for a solution for it and I did not find anything

[ribermon]

I have a question

So far I managed to sync one calendar from one iCloud account, but I would like to sync also a second calendar from a second iCloud account, is this possible?

Thanks
Ricardo

[Beh]

Hey @ribermon!

Yes, this should be possible. You just have to add another configuration scheme for your second icloud account to the vdirsyncer config. I didn’t try it, but something like that should work:

# vdirsyncer configuration for MagicMirror.
#
# Move it to ~/.vdirsyncer/config or ~/.config/vdirsyncer/config and edit it.
# Run `vdirsyncer --help` for CLI usage.
#
# Optional parameters are commented out.
# This file doesn't document all available parameters, see
# http://vdirsyncer.pimutils.org/ for the rest of them.

[general]
# A folder where vdirsyncer can store some metadata about each pair.
status_path = "~/.vdirsyncer/status/"

# CALDAV Sync for iCloud 1
[pair iCloud1_to_MagicMirror]
a = "Mirror_iCloud1"
b = "iCloud1"
collections = ["HERE-GOES-THE-UUID-OF-THE-CALENDAR-YOU-WANT-TO-SYNC"]

# Calendars also have a color property
metadata = ["displayname", "color"]

[storage Mirror_iCloud1]
# 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 iCloud1]
type = "caldav"
url = "https://caldav.icloud.com/"
# Authentication credentials
username = "YOUR-ICLOUD-EMAIL-ADDRESS"
password = "HERE-GOES-YOUR-APP-SPECIFIC-ICLOUD-PASSWORD"
# 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"]
# We need to keep the number of events low, so we'll just sync the next month
# Adjust this to your needs
start_date = "datetime.now() - timedelta(days=1)"
end_date = "datetime.now() + timedelta(days=30)"


# CALDAV Sync for iCloud 2
[pair iCloud2_to_MagicMirror]
a = "Mirror_iCloud2"
b = "iCloud2"
collections = ["HERE-GOES-THE-UUID-OF-THE-CALENDAR-YOU-WANT-TO-SYNC"]

# Calendars also have a color property
metadata = ["displayname", "color"]

[storage Mirror_iCloud2]
# 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 iCloud2]
type = "caldav"
url = "https://caldav.icloud.com/"
# Authentication credentials
username = "YOUR-ICLOUD2-EMAIL-ADDRESS"
password = "HERE-GOES-YOUR-APP-SPECIFIC-ICLOUD2-PASSWORD"
# 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"]
# We need to keep the number of events low, so we'll just sync the next month
# Adjust this to your needs
start_date = "datetime.now() - timedelta(days=1)"
end_date = "datetime.now() + timedelta(days=30)"

[ribermon]

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[ribermon]

@Beh I manage to discover the calendars from my second iCloud account but then I don’t manage to sync my calendars there, any idea, thanks

[Beh]

@ribermon No I have no idea. But since this is actually a vdirsyncer-problem and has nothing to do with the mirror itself, I suggest you dig the vdirsyncer-Documentation:

https://vdirsyncer.pimutils.org/en/stable/

[bgz]

Hi Beh

Sorry if I´m too newbie… I´m following your step-by step and I get stuck in one place…

When creating a config file, I type:

 touch ~/.vdirsyncer/config

and I get:
Can´t do ‘touch’ on ‘/home/pi.vdirsyncer/config’: The file or directory doesn´t exist

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks.

[Beh]

Hey, @bgz! No problem, I’m glad to help if I have time for that :)

first: the path should be /home/pi/.vdirsyncer/config you forgot the slash after “pi”

additionally, it seems, that the folder does not exist. Please make sure, that the folder .vdirsyncer exists in your user’s home directory. You can create it by typing mkdir .vdirsyncer when you are inside the home directory