Sync private iCloud calendar with MagicMirror

sdetweil

@spor4 that file should just be text

u can edit it
it should look like this layout

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
BEGIN:VEVENT
...
END:VEVENT
repeat for all events
END:VCALENDAR

spor4

@sdetweil sorry for asking stupid (total noob), I should edit the .ics file with the text editor into this?
If I do so it says Error in calendar module. Check logs for more details. again

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
BEGIN:VEVENT
…
END:VEVENT
repeat for all events
END:VCALENDAR

sdetweil

@spor4 no. you are going to look at the generated ics file and see if it contains the format I described

spor4

@sdetweil no it’s empty

sdetweil

@spor4 then thats why no events on the calendar…

so the syncher didn’t work correctly

now you need someone elses help on that problem

Saabman

Just wanted to say thanks for posting these instructions just secured my calendar. Much apreciated

anhanyoung

@Beh Okay, I apologize because I’m sure this is a very basic question but how do you create an array in the config? I tried doing [], [] but that didn’t work.

Also, I keep getting this error when discovering and press y.

Should vdirsyncer attempt to create it? [y/N]: y
error: Unknown error occurred: [Errno 13] Permission denied: ‘/home/pi’

How can I bypass this?

anhanyoung

@sdetweil Any idea why I’m getting an error when running discover and saying yes to sync?

error: Unknown error occurred: [Errno 13] Permission denied: ‘/home/pi’
error: Use -vdebug to see the full traceback.

sdetweil

@anhanyoung I do not know anything about this syncing tool, never had to use it

anhanyoung91

@Saabman do you know how to get the syncer to work? I keep getting an error saying I don’t have permissions to /home/pi

sdetweil

@anhanyoung91 please don’t double post, all posts from users w reputation below 2 are reviewed

sdetweil

@anhanyoung how to create array

 name_of_field: [],

you are not just creating an array. you are creating a field that IS an array

anhanyoung91

@sdetweil sounds good. Sorry about that. New to this forum and I wanted to tag him too. I suppose I could have just used @

Saabman

@anhanyoung91 Hi, I just followed the instructions on the first page.
I did have an issue at one point and it was just because I didn’t follow the instructions exactly as written.
If your getting an error Permission denied: /home/pi to me that sounds like you may not have the path to the vdirsyncer status folder set right. It appears it is trying to write to the /home/pi folder rather than ~/.vdirsyncer/status/

Id go through the steps again and make sure you don’t skip anything.

As for the array issue in the vdirsyncer config I have 2 calendars I sync and the line looks something like this
where home is my main calendar and the random number string is my birthdays calendar.

collections = ["home","57B7E3E-AB79-4DC3-9CF1-A63EB181DB"]

hope that helps

anhanyoung91

@Saabman thank you so much for the reply. I’ll trace my steps and give it a shot!

anhanyoung91

@Saabman I’ve literally re-done the steps over and over and I keep getting the permissions error. Have any other ideas what might be causing this or how to fix it? Thanks in advance

sdetweil

@anhanyoung91 did u do the tutorial

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

Alfnie

I run into a problem with vdirsyncer (discover) which is raised some times before in this thread, but I can’t find the solution. I have tried with other internet resources to solve my problem, but I ran out of options. Hopefully one of you can help me troubleshoot.

1.) First, I successfully followed the steps of @Beh with additionally the clean, easy way from here:
https://vdirsyncer.pimutils.org/en/stable/installation.html#the-clean-hard-way

I got stuck at the part: Let vdirsyncer discover the collections and do the inital sync, with the command vdirsyncer discover. It returned:

adm@raspberrypi:~ $ vdirsyncer discover
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/adm/.local/bin/vdirsyncer", line 5, in <module>
    from vdirsyncer.cli import main
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'vdirsyncer'

2.) Second, I followed the routine from @mr190e, on page 13 in this thread (link), after i used pipx uninstall vdirsyncer from The clean, easy way.

Seems like I got to work again.

First of all, I installed vdirsyncer via
“sudo apt-get install vdirsyncer”,
and not using pip.

Now, vdirsyncer discover returns:

critical: Error during reading config /home/adm/.config/vdirsyncer/config: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/adm/.config/vdirsyncer/config'

Now I am out of tricks, I’m not sure how to troubleshoot this. What do I need to check, or to modify, to get it to work…

Thanks advance for your help!

sdetweil

@Alfnie so create the folder .config/.vdirsyncer

And add the config file there

Alfnie

@sdetweil
Thanks for your reply, it sounds simple, however it seems complicated for me.
I do as you say by taking these commands from the instruction (is this correct?)

mkdir /home/adm/.config/vdirsyncer/
touch /home/adm/.config/vdirsyncer/config
nano /home/adm/.config/vdirsyncer/config

It results in:

admns@raspberrypi:~ $ mkdir /home/adm/.config/vdirsyncer/
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/home/adm/.config/vdirsyncer/’: No such file or directory
admns@raspberrypi:~ $ touch /home/adm/.config/vdirsyncer/config
touch: cannot touch '/home/adm/.config/vdirsyncer/config': No such file or directory

How should I create the folder .config/.vdirsyncer as you pointed out?