Sync private iCloud calendar with MagicMirror

Maros

Or is there any posibility how to add birthday ? Google calendar maybe?

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:
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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.

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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?

Beh

@showbizkid Did you create the .vdirsyncer folder first? Sounds like it is not present…

Beh

@yk Dis you activate the systemd unit for the timer? You can enable it with sudo systemctl enable vdirsyncer.timer you can also check via sudo systemctl status vdirsyncer.timer, is it’s enabled already. If so, it should work…

Gullfrode

Does the https://caldav.icloud.com still work for you guys?
My credentials are right, the rest of the conig is same as the config,
I get this error:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ vdirsyncer discover
Discovering collections for pair iCloud_to_MagicMirror
Mirror:
  - "HERE-GOES-THE-UUID-OF-THE-CALENDAR-YOU-WANT-TO-SYNC"
warning: Failed to discover collections for iCloud, use `-vdebug` to see the full traceback.
error: Unknown error occured: 401 Client Error: Unauthorized for url: https://caldav.icloud.com/.well-known/caldav
error: Use `-vdebug` to see the full traceback.
error: 1 out of 1 tasks failed.

Get an error if I type vdirsyncer discover -vdebug (no such option)

Have tried both Norwegian and US accounts, with and without two-way authentication.

Gullfrode

I forgot that apple had changed all its calendars this fall. Generated an app+spesific password, and it worked…

Sammie1232

@Beh I followed your instruction step-by step but I can’t find the .vdirsyncer/config. I get the same error as @bgz. Do you know the solution to this problem? I tried creating the vdirsyncer folder but i got the message “Access denied”.

Beh

@Sammie1232 Seems like the folder and/or the file do not exist. Please create them if they are not there.

The folder needs to be owned by the current user. On a Raspi, this command would look like this: chown -R pi:pi /home/pi/.vdirsyncer

htilburgs

You can make a iCloud Family Calendr ‘public’ by following the next steps:

On an iPhone

Go to Calendar app
At the bottom you see ‘calendar’
click on it
click on the ‘i’ behind the family calendar
go to the bottom and make sure ‘public calendar’ is selected
select option ‘share’ and then select copy
Now you have the public url and can use

On a Mac

open calendar app
select the family calendar on the left
right click on the ‘wifi’ symbol
select settings for sharing
select public calendar and you can copy the url

Beh

@htilburgs This is exactly what I‘m trying to prevent/workaround with this tutorial.
Using a public calendar URL allows anyone to see your calendars without any authentication at all. This way your calendars are open and accessible by anyone who knows the URL. (URLs can be crawled by machines ;))

This here is just a secure method to sync your calendars.

If you don‘t care about having your personal life available to anyone or anything, it‘s your business.

bachoo786

@Beh thanks for this. everything is working fine for me just a small error I wanted to ask about in my /home/pi/.pm2/logs/MagicMirror-error.log, it complains the following:

ERROR! Could not find main module js file for calendars

Its not a show stopper but because the calendars folder is created in the modules folder this is why it is asking for a js file.