Kalendar ID Outlook

[Silvanfelix]

Hi it's me agian

I'm trying to link my calendar to the display.

I have two calendar-IDs, but one won't work. Do you know why?
The first one works, but I want the other calendar to be show, but this ID won't work.

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This is the error:

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ADD CALENDAR INFO

2024-11-15:12:00:23 INFO [screen-calendar-get.py:88] Fetching Outlook Calendar Events
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/Silvan/waveshare-epaper-display/screen-calendar-get.py", line 119, in
main()
File "/home/Silvan/waveshare-epaper-display/screen-calendar-get.py", line 101, in main
calendar_events = provider.get_calendar_events()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/Silvan/waveshare-epaper-display/calendar_providers/outlook.py", line 107, in get_calendar_events
for event in events_data["value"]:
~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^
KeyError: 'value'

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[mendhak]

You can try setting the DEBUG=1 value in env.sh and it should output some more information about why it failed. You can post that log here too, but if there's any personal info please XXXXXX it out.

[Silvanfelix]

This is the error log from the Degub file run.log
I don't really understand what's the problem

[mendhak]

Not much different then.

When you ran the .venv/bin/python3 outlook_util.py did it show that calendar ID with its included events?

[mendhak]

Another thing you could try, in the calendar_providers/outlook.py file, on line 106, add a logging.info(events_data) just before the for loop. That is

logging.info(events_data)  # <--- add this line
for event in events_data["value"]:
    ...

Then see what it outputs when you rerun and look at the log file

[Silvanfelix]

This is what I'm getting in the log file if I add logging.info(events_data)

Could it be, that it won't work, because it is the calendar I synchronized with my iPhone, so the Outlook-Calendar-ID is built different? So is it even somehow possible to get the icloud calendar on to the screen?

[mendhak]

I don't know about iphone calendars, but I am able to synchronize Google calendars into outlook. From Google Calendar I get an ICS url, and then in Outlook Calendar I add a new calendar and paste that ICS URL. The calendar syncs then I'm able to use it in the waveshare display.

Your other option is to use the ICS URL directly if you can find one for your calendar, see this section: https://github.com/mendhak/waveshare-epaper-display?tab=readme-ov-file#ics-calendar

[Silvanfelix]

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2024-11-17:23:15:58 INFO [screen-calendar-get.py:95] Fetching ics Calendar Events
2024-11-17:23:15:58 DEBUG [utility.py:80] is_stale(/home/Silvan/waveshare-epaper-display/cache_ics.pickle) - True
2024-11-17:23:15:58 DEBUG [ics.py:26] Pickle is stale, fetching ICS Calendar
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/Silvan/waveshare-epaper-display/screen-calendar-get.py", line 119, in
main()
File "/home/Silvan/waveshare-epaper-display/screen-calendar-get.py", line 101, in main
calendar_events = provider.get_calendar_events()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/Silvan/waveshare-epaper-display/calendar_providers/ics.py", line 28, in get_calendar_events
ics_events = icalevents.icalevents.events(self.ics_calendar_url, start=self.from_date, end=self.to_date)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/Silvan/waveshare-epaper-display/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/icalevents/icalevents.py", line 49, in events
content = ical_download.data_from_url(url, apple_fix=fix_apple)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/Silvan/waveshare-epaper-display/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/icalevents/icaldownload.py", line 66, in data_from_url
_, content = self.http.request(url)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/Silvan/waveshare-epaper-display/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/httplib2/init.py", line 1541, in request
connection_type = SCHEME_TO_CONNECTION[scheme]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^
KeyError: 'webcal'

I now insearted the URL from the calendar into to ICS URL section
The only error I get is webcal
Is this because the URL starts with this?
webcal://p159-caldav.icloud.com/published/2/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.ics

Because when I enter the URL into the browser it works and if I change the webcal with https: it won't work

[mendhak]

Yes you are right, it needs to be an https:// URL so that it can be fetched by the code. Maybe hunt around to see if they provide some https URL for the calendars?

You might have to search discussion threads if it isn't obvious... not sure how helpful this one is: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5950029?sortBy=rank

[Silvanfelix]

I'v now tired it by creating an CALDAV-Calendar
And in Outlook it works perfectly, but it won't show it on the display
Do I have to insert the Caldendar ID aswell and where do I find this ID?

export CALDAV_CALENDAR_URL=https://XXXX-caldav.icloud.com/XXXXXXXXXXXXXX/
export CALDAV_USERNAME=XXXXXXXgmail.com
export CALDAV_PASSWORD=xyz

export CALDAV_CALENDAR_ID=xxxxxxxxxx

I always get this error log:

       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

File "/home/Silvan/waveshare-epaper-display/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/vobject/icalendar.py", line 1167, in validate
raise ValidateError(m)
vobject.base.ValidateError: 'VEVENT components cannot contain both DTEND and DURATION components'

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[mendhak]

If you are syncing that Caldav to Outlook, could you try the Outlook calendar again?

That is, run the .venv/bin/python3 outlook_util.py script again. You'll know it's going to work if it shows both the calendar ID as well as a few entries from there.

I am really unsure about caldav, in my limited testing I found apple is just a shitshow with following standards so I had to give up on it.

[mendhak]

Were you able to get an https URL for the ICS calendar from that discussion thread?

Yet another option... (thinking out loud) if you have a Google account you can also try syncing to a G Calendar from ICS, and see if you can use one of the G Calendars.

[Silvanfelix]

If I run this script againg .venv/bin/python3 outlook_util.py I only get the ID's from the calendars I don't want, but not the Caldav one.

With the help of the discussion thread I've got an URL, but it started with webcal://XXX-caldav.icloud.com/ and not with https: and it also didn't end with .ics

So I might have to try the option with the google calendar. But I don't understand what you mean by trying to sync to a G calendar from ICS. How does this work?

[mendhak]

I believe it's very similar to the way you would sync to Outlook Calendar from an ICS URL. In Google Calendar, click the + next to Other Calendars, then From URL, and in there, paste the ICS URL.

Regarding Outlook itself, in my testing I've simply added an ICS URL to the 'Subscribe from Web' dialog, then I've usually had to wait 10-15 minutes to see entries start to appear, and in the outlook_util.py script the Calendar ID appears for me, with calendar entries.

[Silvanfelix]

Now I struggle to get the google calendar on to the display. Even with your instruction #19 (comment)
I don't understand this thing with the credentials.json. Do I have the create a new file? where?

[mendhak]

In the last image in that comment, you'll see a little down arrow. Clicking that will give you a json file. Copy that file to the waveshare project directory and name it credentials.json

[Silvanfelix]

Ok now I why it didn't worked, I was logged in with the wrong Outlook account so I didn't see the right Outlook ID.
Now I have the right one and it works perfectly fine.

Sorry for the time waste this was my fault.
But thanks for helping me

[mendhak]

Alright all the best!