Sync private iCloud calendar with MagicMirror

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.

maestro82

So . . . . . . restarted the mirror and now it works. Moving on to adding other calendars, wish us luck.

maestro82

So I have three separate calendars linked to ical, running on my magic mirror. I see events from all three calendars, but many events are missing. Any ideas?

E3V3A

@maestro82 said in Sync private iCloud calendar with MagicMirror:

So I have three separate calendars linked to ical, running on my magic mirror. I see events from all three calendars, but many events are missing. Any ideas?

You are probably limiting the number of calendar items shown in your calendar config. (IDK what is the default, but perhaps only 10-15 which for 3 cals can be easily overloaded.)

maestro82

I have several reoccurring events on the same day, only one of each event is showing up. The number of events is set at 10 but it is going out at least 4 months with that set. It should only go out about 3 weeks with 10 events listed. I’ll try raising the number of events and limiting the time.

paddyhughes

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paddyhughes

Hi

So i am getting stuck with this and don’t know how to fix the issue.
The UUID is beside my Calendar and in my iCloud this is my default one.
but the one i want to use is home (Home Calendar) but No UUID shows up
same goes for the work one.

The only one i am interested in is the Home Calendar

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ vdirsyncer discover
Discovering collections for pair iCloud_to_MagicMirror
Mirror:
iCloud:
  - "tasks" ("Reminders")
  - "AE********-E**4-4D**-A**4-*****************" ("Calendar")
  - "home" ("Home Calendar")
  - "work" ("Work")
warning: No collection "HERE-GOES-THE-UUID-OF-THE-CALENDAR-YOU-WANT-TO-SYNC" found for storage Mirror.
Should vdirsyncer attempt to create it? [y/N]:

Thanks for any help given :)

paddyhughes

Last issue resolved

So my issue not really an issue just me expecting something different than what i got when i ran vdirsyncer discovery

So the example on page 1 looks like this

Mirror:
iCloud:
  - "25CB285C-E163-4E0E-B420-C3FB469B7C00" ("Calendar 1")
  - "9221FEE8-E8B4-4D07-9402-8638529919EC" ("Calendar 2")
  - "953A5477-E405-4ED6-A5C3-473444EACC95" ("Calendar 3")
warning: No collection "9221FEE8-E8B4-4D07-9402-8638529919EC" found for storage Mirror.
Should vdirsyncer attempt to create it? [y/N]:

With all the Calendars having a string for UUID E.G. 9221FEE8-E8B4-4D07-9402-8638529919EC

And this is what i got

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ vdirsyncer discover
Discovering collections for pair iCloud_to_MagicMirror
Mirror:
iCloud:
  - "tasks" ("Reminders")
  - "9221FEE8-E8B4-4D07-9402-8638529919EC" ("Calendar")
  - "home" ("Home Calendar")
  - "work" ("Work")
warning: No collection "HERE-GOES-THE-UUID-OF-THE-CALENDAR-YOU-WANT-TO-SYNC" found for storage Mirror.
Should vdirsyncer attempt to create it? [y/N]:

Now what i didn’t know was that i did get a return of UUID for each Calendar
(Reminders) UUID is "tasks"
(Calendar) UUID is "9221FEE8-E8B4-4D07-9402-8638529919EC"
(Home Calendar) UUID is "home"

Hope this helps other people in the future.
took me a bit of digging around.

maestro82

paddyhughes,

Had the exact same issue.

Had one calendar called “worK”, all the rest had the long UUID names.

I keep looking for the “work” calendar, of course it’s UUID was “work”.

Put that in and now it works.

Some lessons are learned the hard way.

Maestro-82

paddyhughes

Ya kept thinking I did something wrong set up 3 different Rpi thinking I did something some were in the code to mess up. Finally got it working ;)

@maestro82 said in Sync private iCloud calendar with MagicMirror:

paddyhughes,

Had the exact same issue.

Had one calendar called “worK”, all the rest had the long UUID names.

I keep looking for the “work” calendar, of course it’s UUID was “work”.

Put that in and now it works.

Some lessons are learned the hard way.

Maestro-82

Devert

Have any1 made a video how to set it up, I have some problems? :-D

paddyhughes

Hi what’s the issue
@Devert

Fenis

I saw someone back on page 1 getting this error but not a solution:

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

In answer to the reply of if I added python3 to the executable, I already have.

Fenis

@Doubleve How did you fix this issue? I’m getting the same error.

dylanje

Thanks for the tutorial, this is incredibly helpful.

I’m to the point where my MagicMirror displays events from my Home calendar, but it seems that vdirsyncer.timer is not actually working. When I run systemctl --user enable vdirsyncer.timer the console doesn’t output any errors and just returns to a new line. I never see any updates to events on the calendar if I remove/add.

I’ve modified the timer settings, and changed a few settings on the MagicMirror side as well but the only way I can get the .ics files to update is if I manually run vdirsyncer sync. I’ve ready through the docs over here: https://vdirsyncer.pimutils.org/en/stable/index.html but there really isn’t any useful information about the timer.

Any thoughts or leads to finding an answer?

Maros

Hi all,

i’m trying to prepare everything on SW site before i start building MM and i have almost everything except birthdays … :(

i’m using iCloud to store my contacts birthdays but i’m not able to find way how to import them to calendar module on MM2

i’ve found and installed this module :
MMM-iCloud-Client

i’ve installed it and also dependecies :
npm install ical-generator
npm install icloud
npm install nedb --save

in config/config.js i’ve updated entry with
{
module: ‘MMM-iCloud-Client’,
config: {
username: “appleID”,
password: “password”,
countrycode: “49”,
}
},

also i’ve edited modules/default/calendar/calendar.js and added this code to it (below US-Holidays.ics …entry) :
{
symbol: ‘birthday-cake’,
url: ‘http://localhost:8080/MMM-iCloud-Client/birthdays’,
}

but it’s still not showing any birthday even if upcomming are in 2 days.

Can someone help me what i’m doing wrong ?

Thank you