@krisalexroberts I was also struggeling with finding a nice weather module. Depending on your needs, WeatherOrNot will do. It offers daily forecast and has nice looks + the formatting is responsive.

@elliot1996 @duxnobis not sure if anyone is still following, but I was able to get the automated sync with a work around through cronjob. Step-by-step guide below:

1. Create Shell script

First we need to create the script which is actually executed by the cronjob. To do this we open a terminal and type

nano ~/MagicMirror/modules/calendars/vdirsyncer.sh

Within the editor we just write a one-liner:

vdirsyncer -vinfo sync

Close by CTRL+X and save by confirming with Y

2. Make script executable.

Within terminal type

chmod +x ~/MagicMirror/modules/calendars/vdirsyncer.sh

3. Test the script

Run a test if your script works. Within terminal type

bash ~/MagicMirror/modules/calendars/vdirsyncer.sh

If working as intended you should receive the feedback

Syncing iCloud_to_MagicMirror/YOUR-CALENDAR-UUID

4. Checking/Changing the Version of vdirsyncer

This was actually my biggest issue. I could sync successfully when running the script manually but the actual cronjob failed. Looking into Debug-Logs I found that the manual run used Version 0.16.8 of vdirsyncer while the cronjob used 0.16.7. After manually chaning the versioning if worked as inteded. To ensue you are not running into that issue, let’s check the versioning from the get-go. Within Terminal type

sudo nano /usr/bin/vdirsyncer

An editor will show you the following code:

#!/usr/bin/python3
# EASY-INSTALL-ENTRY-SCRIPT: 'vdirsyncer==0.16.7','console_scripts','vdirsyncer'
__requires__ = 'vdirsyncer==0.16.7'
import re
import sys
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point

if __name__ == '__main__':
    sys.argv[0] = re.sub(r'(-script\.pyw?|\.exe)?$', '', sys.argv[0])
    sys.exit(
        load_entry_point('vdirsyncer= q=0.16.7', 'console_scripts', 'vdirsyncer')()
    )

Change all three instances of 0.16.7to 0.16.8, close via CTRL+X and save with Y.

5. Create the Cronjob

Cronjobs are a great thing. It is pre-installed with UNIX based systems, therefore also with our Raspberry Pi. More information about Cronjobs can be found here. To set up a new cronjob, within Terminal type

crontab -e

The result will be the following code:

# Edit this file to introduce tasks to be run by cron.
#
# Each task to run has to be defined through a single line
# indicating with different fields when the task will be run
# and what command to run for the task
# 
# To define the time you can provide concrete values for
# minute (m), hour (h), day of month (dom), month (mon),
# and day of week (dow) or use '*' in these fields (for 'any').
# 
# Notice that tasks will be started based on the cron's system
# daemon's notion of time and timezones.
# 
# Output of the crontab jobs (including errors) is sent through
# email to the user the crontab file belongs to (unless redirected).
# 
# For example, you can run a backup of all your user accounts
# at 5 a.m every week with:
# 0 5 * * 1 tar -zcf /var/backups/home.tgz /home/
# 
# For more information see the manual pages of crontab(5) and cron(8)
# 
# m h  dom mon dow   command

Type a new line at the bottom with the cron syntax. Here is an overview for the timings:

# ┌───────────── minute (0 - 59)
# │ ┌───────────── hour (0 - 23)
# │ │ ┌───────────── day of the month (1 - 31)
# │ │ │ ┌───────────── month (1 - 12)
# │ │ │ │ ┌───────────── day of the week (0 - 6) (Sunday to Saturday;
# │ │ │ │ │                                   7 is also Sunday on some systems)
# │ │ │ │ │
# │ │ │ │ │
# * * * * * 

As for us it makes senst to run vdirsyncer every X minutes (I am going with 5 minutes in my case) the syntax looks as follows:

*/5 * * * *

followed by the script to execute:

bash ~/MagicMirror/modules/calendars/vdirsyncer.sh >> ~/vdirsyncer.log 2>&1

The first part should be familiar to you. What follows after the >> is a log we are creating. This will be helpful in case anything does not work as inteded. The full cronjob should look as follows:

# Edit this file to introduce tasks to be run by cron.
#
# Each task to run has to be defined through a single line
# indicating with different fields when the task will be run
# and what command to run for the task
# 
# To define the time you can provide concrete values for
# minute (m), hour (h), day of month (dom), month (mon),
# and day of week (dow) or use '*' in these fields (for 'any').
# 
# Notice that tasks will be started based on the cron's system
# daemon's notion of time and timezones.
# 
# Output of the crontab jobs (including errors) is sent through
# email to the user the crontab file belongs to (unless redirected).
# 
# For example, you can run a backup of all your user accounts
# at 5 a.m every week with:
# 0 5 * * 1 tar -zcf /var/backups/home.tgz /home/
# 
# For more information see the manual pages of crontab(5) and cron(8)
# 
# m h  dom mon dow   command
*/5 * * * * bash ~/MagicMirror/modules/calendars/vdirsyncer.sh >> ~/vdirsyncer.log 2>&1

Close again by CTRL+X. You are now ready and have everything set up. The cronjob will start automatically on every startup and run the sync in the interval you have set it up.

@duxnobis @elliot1996 @Beh
Hey guys,
just checking in on this topic, as I also have issues with getting the timer to run while manual sync works fine.

• Files are in /etc/systemd/user/ (vdirsyncer.service & vdirsyncer.timer)
• Ran systemctl --user enable vdirsyncer.timer? (no error or any other feedback in Terminal)
• Checked jorunalctl --user -u vdirsyncer with the result:
  No journal files were found. -- No Entries --

I even went forward and tried to sync using a cronjob but this is unfortuately also not working:

error: Unknown error occured for iCloud_to_MagicMirror/9*******-****-****-****-************D: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='p65-caldav.icloud.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /1355377534/calendars/9*******-****-****-****-************D/ (Caused by SSLError(SSLError("bad handshake: Error([('SSL routines', 'tls_process_server_certificate', 'certificate verify failed')])")))
error: Use `-vdebug` to see the full traceback.
error: 1 out of 2 tasks failed.
Syncing iCloud_to_MagicMirror/9*******-****-****-****-************D

Anyone has an Idea?

@dave_ Hey there,

would be happy to help. What is your issue currently? Also would help to post a snippet of the config you are using.+

@Mykle1 Understood. Guess that is the part making it responsive as you change the size?

@Mykle1 Woulnd’t it be possible via a custom css?

@BKeyport in my opinion it clearly is. Let’s see if some new modules pop up (openweather onecall API, climacell…)

Digging out this old topic. I successfully could sync my private calendar with vdirsyncer to my Mirror. What I would like to add are the birthdays of my contacts. The issue with this one is, that they are not an acutal calendar.

I tried with another device specific password to bypass the two-factor authentification which I was assuming is the issue here but no success.

I would even be fine in manually downloading an .ics with the Birthdays but have no idea how to extract them from the contacts. Does anyone have been successful?

@krisalexroberts I was also struggeling with finding a nice weather module. Depending on your needs, WeatherOrNot will do. It offers daily forecast and has nice looks + the formatting is responsive.

Hey @lost,

thanks for creating this. I am currently building my first mirror and have issues with the weather module from the master (only showing “Loading”) and hence wanted to try yours, as I am looking for hourly data anyways.

However, I am a total noob to git and stuff, so I don’t know how to install your branch. Could you help me out here? Much appreciated in advance.

I would love a small Cortana rendered on the screen speaking with me (the one from the Halo Video Games series)