Sync private iCloud calendar with MagicMirror

jhp392819

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