Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
Sync private iCloud calendar with MagicMirror
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Fantastic effort! Thanks!
I’ve got everything working except the timer functionality (just doesn’t seem to take). Any ideas? -
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?
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@showbizkid Did you create the
.vdirsyncer
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@yk Dis you activate the systemd unit for the timer? You can enable it with
sudo systemctl enable vdirsyncer.timer
you can also check viasudo systemctl status vdirsyncer.timer
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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.
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I forgot that apple had changed all its calendars this fall. Generated an app+spesific password, and it worked…
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@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
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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
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@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.