Sync private iCloud calendar with MagicMirror

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?

sdetweil

@Alfnie you missed the . in front of vdirsyncer…

the dot on linux makes the folder ‘hidden’ from normal ls commands… as linux file system doesn’t have a hidden attribute

sdetweil

@Alfnie
who is adm? should be the current username (pi?)

always best to use the shortcut

~/.config

~ means the home folder of the current user , same as
/home/$USER

or /home/pi is pi is logged in

Alfnie

@sdetweil
Thanks, it works now.
Also, I have learned about the dot (.) implying Hidden folders, thanks.
Tomorrow I’m gonna try to add multiple calendars.

kai

Hi @Beh,

thank you very much for this detailed description. This was exactly what I was looking for for my MM, and with your step-by-step instructions it worked for me straight away.
Happy New Year and thank you very much again!!! :thumbs_up:

May the code be with you
-kai

JamesScreech

Thanks for the detailed description, I’ve done this and it works most of the time, however one of my calendars is not updating.
I know very little about Pi’s and am new to Linux it general, are there any suggestions on how to find issues?