Sync private iCloud calendar with MagicMirror

[justjim1220]

@maros

there is a default calendar module that automatically came with MM2

And there are others, I personally like MMM-CalendarExt.

[Maros]

Yes but is there possibility to add birthday calendar ?
Icloud or google ?

[justjim1220]

@maros

I work mainly with Google, I haven’t personally used iCloud. Have also worked with Yahoo and Hotmail. Google is my favorite…

This is my list of calendars:

And, this is how I put into my calendar module…

"calendars": [
  {
    "name": "Family Stuff",
    "symbol": "heart@fa",
    "url": "Calendar link here",
    "interval": 24*60*60*1000
  },
  {
    "name": "US Holiday",
    "url": "Calendar link here",
    "symbol": "gift@fa",
    "interval": 24*60*60*1000,
    "maxEntries": 50, "maxDays":365
  },
  {
     "name": "Birthdays",
     "symbol": "birthday-cake",
     "url": "Calendar link here"
  },
  {
  // "name": "KC Chiefs",
     "symbol": "football-ball@fa",
     "url": "Calendar link here",
     "interval": 24*60*60*1000
  },
  {
     "name": "NFL Games",
     "url": "Calendar link here",
     "symbol": "football-ball@fa",
     "interval": 24*60*60*1000
  },
  {
     "name": "NFL Playoff Games",
     "url": "Calendar link here",
     "symbol": "football-ball@fa",
     "interval": 24*60*60*1000
  },
],

[Albinolan]

@justjim1220 We are all able to do that, to clarify the issue. The objective is to find a way to use an iCloud calendar without having a public url, which is what your google calendar is currently using. By using a public URL, web crawlers are able to find and read your calendar events.

[Albinolan]

@maros you can add the bday calendar in the default calendar module by making your iCloud calendar public (tick the box circled in this screenshot), and you should be given a link that you can copy into the config file.
If you want to use google calendars, it should be similar. Just look up how to publicly share a google calendar, and get the link from there to put into your config.

[Albinolan]

@maros One problem (which this thread was originally trying to solve) was the inability to prevent others from accessing the calendar. If a web crawler can find your link, they too will be able to read your calendar.

[Maros]

@Albinolan but in icloud calendar Birthday calendar have not option to public.

it’s marked as others

@justjim1220 i’ve tried also this in gmail i’ve copied url for birthday calendar (public url to this calendar) and add it to my calendar module

{
symbol: “calendar”,
url: “https://calendar.google.com/calendar/xxxxxxxxxxxx”
},

but it’s not showing any upcomming birthday

ok i’ve made temporary solution but it’s not ideal …

what i’ve done - open Google Calendar - Export and Import
exported all calendars to .ics
i’ve copied birthday calendar to rpi (using scp birthday.ics pi@:MagicMirror/modules/calendars)

in config.js i’ve creaded new entry for newly created calendar.

problem is it’s static so if you want to add new birthday you have to edit file birthday.ics

[jhp392819]

@Beh

First, thank you! This is great. I got three different iCal calendars to all work perfectly.

I can’t, however, seem to get a holiday calendar to show. The vdirsyncer discover doesn’t show the iCal US Holiday calendar, so I can’t use the one that is provided by iCloud. So I decided to use the calendarlabs that comes as a default with MagicMirror. But it’s showing up on electron when I npm start

I’ve included my code below. Can anyone tell me why the calendarlabs US holiday calendar isn’t showing up?

Do I need to create a 4th .ics file form calendarlabs to store locally to use with vdirsyncer? Is that why the default code in MagicMirror for calendarlabs no longer works?

Thanks.

{
    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,
	timeFormat: 12,
        calendars: [
                // "ME Calendar"
                {
                        url: 'http://localhost:8080/modules/calendars/home.ics',
                        symbol: 'calendar',
                        color: '#5bc0de'   // Assign color
                },
                // "YOU Calendar"
                {
                        url: 'http://localhost:8080/modules/calendars/work.ics',
                        symbol: 'calendar',
                        color: '#FFF000'  // Assign color
                },
		// "ME & YOU Calendar"
               	{
                    	url: 'http://localhost:8080/modules/calendars/65839DD3-D523-48E6-931B-D2DB201A1C36.ics',
                        symbol: 'calendar',
                        color: '#5bbf21'  // Assign color
               	},
		// "Holiday Calendar"
               	{
                    	url: 'http://www.calendarlabs.com/templates/ical/US-Holidays.ics',
                        symbol: 'calendar',
                        color: '#ab00ff'  // Assign color
               	}

        ]
    }
},

[yk]

Fantastic effort! Thanks!
I’ve got everything working except the timer functionality (just doesn’t seem to take). Any ideas?

[showbizkid]

Thanks gentlemen for allowing me to join your group. I am presently stuck on the " touch ~/.vdirsyncer/config". My pi claims I am unable to use touch. error is touch: cannot touch '/home pi/.vdirsyncer/config. No such file or directory. Do I need to be in the MagicMirror directory to execute this command?