On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 12:50:55AM +0100, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
On 25/03/12 14:23, Robert Waldie wrote:
On 03/25/2012 12:55 PM, Chris Green wrote:
We defnitely *do* need it to be easy/transparent to keep Evolution (or Lightning) calendar in sync with phone calendar. If this goes via the cloud then so be it but the cloud bit will only be used as a sort of server.
Hi Chris,
This is the setup I use - HTC Desire Z Android, Evolution on my Linux box and Thunderbird & Lightning on Mac, all syncing with Google Calendar in the cloud.
Both email clients have support for Google Calendar's native API, although I initially had to use CalDAV to get writing from Lightning to work. Appears to be fixed in Lightning 1.3.
I use Thunderbird & Lightning Calender add-on. Also add on "Provider for Google Calender", though you can access your calender via CalDav apparently - see
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:Using_Lightning_with_Google_Calendars
For syncing contacts, I use add-on gContactSync which is working well for me. There are other add-ons that do the same thing. I used Zindus for a while and it worked well, then went horribly wrong for some reason.
OK, thanks for all the information.
You might be able to cut Google out of the loop by running your own CalDav server (or iCal server?), but I dunno if you could easily do the same with contacts - could you run an ldap server and get the android to synch to it? I've tried several times in the past to configure an ldap server & to get thunderbird to read its contacts form it, but I got nowhere fast. Syncing via is way easier, BUT, if you don't want Google to know, then you have some work to do!
Yes, I've played with CalDav servers and so on before when trying to work with my Nokia E71 but there really doesn't seem to be a clean and simple solution. I got things working but it was always a hassle and never very 'transparent'. Since this is going to be for my wife (who relies on her Palm/Evolution calendar a *lot*) I want it to be reliable and trouble free.