[O] syncing with google calendar, file changed on disk
Hi, Following the instructions from Worg ( http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-google-sync.html ), I've set a cron job to download my google calendar, and use Eric Fraga's awk script to convert it into google.org for inclusion in my agenda. This works fine, and is currently my only syncing option as my access to other web services (git, dropbox etc) is blocked at my workplace. One small issue: the google calendar file changes regularly, even when I haven't added or modified any appointments. As a consequence, I am interrupted by Emacs reminding me that google.org has changed on disk, and I need to respond before I can continue to browse my agenda. This isn't a big deal, but maybe one of you know how to eliminate this problem? For the record, the sort of changes that I see are this: ~/.emacs.d/org$ diff google.org google.org-old 488c488 ACTION:EMAIL --- ACTION:DISPLAY 490,491d489 SUMMARY:Alarm notification ATTENDEE:mailto:x...@gmail.com 495c493 ACTION:DISPLAY --- ACTION:EMAIL 496a495,496 SUMMARY:Alarm notification ATTENDEE:mailto:x...@gmail.com It seems the ACTION line switches back and forth between DISPLAY and EMAIL. I don't understand the ics format to know what this means. I have searched the mailing list and stackoverflow, but if this has come up before I missed it. Thanks for your help, Tyler
[O] syncing with google calendar, file changed on disk
Hi, Following the instructions from Worg ( http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-google-sync.html ), I've set a cron job to download my google calendar, and use Eric Fraga's awk script to convert it into google.org for inclusion in my agenda. This works fine, and is currently my only syncing option as my access to other web services (git, dropbox etc) is blocked at my workplace. One small issue: the google calendar file changes regularly, even when I haven't added or modified any appointments. As a consequence, I am interrupted by Emacs reminding me that google.org has changed on disk, and I need to respond before I can continue to browse my agenda. This isn't a big deal, but maybe one of you know how to eliminate this problem? For the record, the sort of changes that I see are this: ~/.emacs.d/org$ diff google.org google.org-old 488c488 ACTION:EMAIL --- ACTION:DISPLAY 490,491d489 SUMMARY:Alarm notification ATTENDEE:mailto:x...@gmail.com 495c493 ACTION:DISPLAY --- ACTION:EMAIL 496a495,496 SUMMARY:Alarm notification ATTENDEE:mailto:x...@gmail.com It seems the ACTION line switches back and forth between DISPLAY and EMAIL. I don't understand the ics format to know what this means. I have searched the mailing list and stackoverflow, but if this has come up before I missed it. Thanks for your help, Tyler
Re: [O] syncing with google calendar, file changed on disk
Tyler Smith sedge...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Following the instructions from Worg ( http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-google-sync.html ), I've set a cron job to download my google calendar, and use Eric Fraga's awk script to convert it into google.org for inclusion in my agenda. This works fine, and is currently my only syncing option as my access to other web services (git, dropbox etc) is blocked at my workplace. One small issue: the google calendar file changes regularly, even when I haven't added or modified any appointments. As a consequence, I am interrupted by Emacs reminding me that google.org has changed on disk, and I need to respond before I can continue to browse my agenda. This isn't a big deal, but maybe one of you know how to eliminate this problem? For the record, the sort of changes that I see are this: ~/.emacs.d/org$ diff google.org google.org-old 488c488 ACTION:EMAIL --- ACTION:DISPLAY 490,491d489 SUMMARY:Alarm notification ATTENDEE:mailto:x...@gmail.com 495c493 ACTION:DISPLAY --- ACTION:EMAIL 496a495,496 SUMMARY:Alarm notification ATTENDEE:mailto:x...@gmail.com It seems the ACTION line switches back and forth between DISPLAY and EMAIL. I don't understand the ics format to know what this means. I have searched the mailing list and stackoverflow, but if this has come up before I missed it. Thanks for your help, The brute force approach: make the cron job download to a different file, diff the two and if the diff is just ACTION:EMAIL--ACTION:DISPLAY lines and Alarm notification crud, then throw away the downloaded file. If the diff is different, move the downloaded file to google.org. If you go this way, you might want to play around with different diff formats to see which one is the easiest to parse for the minimal diff(s) above. Nick
Re: [O] syncing with google calendar, file changed on disk
Hi
I use the following bash script via cron to sync with google and revert
the buffer. I also keep my files in git, so there are some git commands
in here too:
#+BEGIN_SRC bash
#update calendar (this runs the awk script)
/home/arun/bin/google-get-calendar
#check if have any local changes, if so commit them
emacsclient -e (org-save-all-org-buffers)
git commit -am automatic update
# pull and push with rebase
git pull --rebase
git push
# git is synced now = auto-revert buffers
emacsclient -e (revbufs)
# export ics file, so that items show up on google
emacs --batch -l ~/.emacs --eval '(defun ask-user-about-lock (file opp)
nil)' -f org-mycal-export
# copy to xxx.xxx.xxx, if ssh-agent knows about the key
if [ -e ~/.sshagent ] ; then
. ~/.sshagent
fi
ssh-add -l |grep cf:c4:58 scp -v ~/org/org.ics
xxx.xxx.xxx:public_html/cryptic-file-name.ics
#+END_SRC
and the export is handled by:
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
;;; org - google export via .ics
(setq org-icalendar-use-UTC-date-time nil)
(setq org-icalendar-timezone America/Los_Angeles)
(defun org-mycal-export-limit ()
Limit the export to items that have a date, time and a range. Also
exclude certain categories.
(setq org-tst-regexp \\([0-9]\\{4\\}-[0-9]\\{2\\}-[0-9]\\{2\\} ...
[0-9]\\{2\\}:[0-9]\\{2\\}[^\r\n]*?\\))
(setq org-tstr-regexp (concat org-tst-regexp --?-? org-tst-regexp))
(save-excursion
; get categories
(setq mycategory (org-get-category))
; get start and end of tree
(org-back-to-heading t)
(setq mystart(point))
(org-end-of-subtree)
(setq myend (point))
(goto-char mystart)
; search for timerange
(setq myresult (re-search-forward org-tstr-regexp myend t))
; search for categories to exclude
(setq mycatp (member mycategory org-export-exclude-category))
; return t if ok, nil when not ok
(if (and myresult (not mycatp)) t nil)))
(defun org-mycal-export ()
(let ((org-icalendar-verify-function 'org-mycal-export-limit))
(org-export-icalendar-combine-agenda-files)))
#+END_SRC
HTH
Arun
