Sync private iCloud calendar with MagicMirror

ildottore

@Beh: First I want to thank you for this tutorial! Great job!

It syncs my iCloud calender fine, but not birthdays which are placed from the contacts app.

Can someone advice me?

Thanks in advance!

bgz

@schwoediauer

Thanks schwoediauer and the others.
I finally got it and it is up & syncing!!

Beh

@ildottore I configured the syncer config to only synchronize calendar events with the property item_types = ["VEVENT"]. The CalDav function only supports the items like "VEVENT" and "VTODO".

I think, that iOS/macOS does not store the birthdays directly in the calendars but adds the birthdays via the Contacts.app to the Calendar.app.

Maybe you can achieve showing birthdays by syncing the contacts with vdirsyncer as described in the docs here and somehow extract the birthdays. But I think this would be quite costly…

Or you can use the MagicMirror module MMM-iCloud-Client maybe…

ganther

Hi there,
i followed the instructions, my calendars are shown in discovery.
I copied the UUID and it starts syncing, but the saved files are 0kb.
I tried several calendars and checked the UUID’s but can’t find any mistake?

any ideas?
thanks!!

Gailby

@Beh Everything works fine until I’ll try to save the config file:

~/.vdirsyncer/config directory cannot be found
Once I manuals create directories I also save config file as config.cfg and also tried config.config and save
I haven’t filled in collections = [“HERE-GOES-THE-UUID-OF-THE-CALENDAR-YOU-WANT-TO-SYNC”] in conf. Could this make it crash?
Running curl for timer ok.
5.Then when vdirsyncer discover nothing happens I get Errno 21 and that’s where I get stuck…

Really wonder what might be the issues here?

ganther

@Gailby
The file is named config. It‘s not a directory, it‘s the name of the file. (No ending).

Gailby

@ganther so if I put config in ~/.vdirsyncer/config it should work?
I think I did try it but somehow wansn’t able to read it as a file nor save and getting empty file and no result forward…

ganther

@Gailby
Yes. Just type these commands as given:

touch ~/.vdirsyncer/config
nano ~/.vdirsyncer/config

schwoediauer

@l0cal Hi !

I’m also interrested on this solution to display reminders on this way, but It dosen’t work actually for me.
Do you have a running configuration

maestro82

Two run two calendars, would I need to adjust config.js file as well?

Thanks

Gailby

@Beh I had no problem adding several modules of same kind and several .ics files in Calendars…however it doesn’t seem to sync or retrieve anything…only says no upcomming events :/

ganther

@Gailby
Is your ics-file in modules/calendars also 0kb?

Gailby

@ganther I don’t know…I need to check

Gailby

Doesn’t seem like they are empty in KB. However the first file has rw–r–r-- and the others only rw------ don’t know if these permissions affects the none fetching of data

maestro82

@maestro82 So I was able to get through the tutorial with no errors, all files discovered and synced. But when I run MagicMirror calendar says “Loading…” and never loads. I have changed interval to 5min in timer file. Any advise to troubleshoot?

Thanks,

Gailby

@Gailby @ganther @Beh the ics files doesn’t seem to sync in Calendars… all files are empty. Have anyone resolved this?

Beh

Hey Guys, I’m sorry I can’t help you right now.
I currently have my examination period at my university. So I’m super busy right now… I’ll be able to help in a week or so…

ganther

@Gailby no, same behavior here.

@beh Thank you and good luck for your exams.

maestro82

Solved this issue by using “http:” not “https:” in calendar url but now my calendar shows no events. I looked into the actual “modules/calendars/****.ics” file and it contains multiple events. Any suggestions?

ganther

@maestro82
Did you check your calendar-url in conf/config.js?

My calendar is running now correctly. Don‘t know why but now my ics-file isn‘t empty anymore.