I've just bought myself a new phone to replace my ageing Nokia N900 and now want to migrate the 6 calendars I have on that to the new phone. But while I'm doing that, I thought I ought to find a way to sync them with a desktop calendar, or some other calendar and that's the purpose of this mail.
I was confused by the URL of this - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Radicale/ to imagine that it ran on a Raspberry Pi but is it a practical proposition to run something like Radicale on a Pi so that I can sync calendars from for example, a Blackberry Playbook, the N900, this 'ere linux box, a Windows machine and my new phone which is a Jolla device?
Or should I think of something else, which doesn't necessarily have to run on a Pi?
I tried Radicale briefly, although I ended up slightly reluctantly using Owncloud instead as it supports other potentially useful stuff as well as calendars. I see no reason Radicale shouldn't do what you need though, on a pi or otherwise (I run Owncloud + some other stuff on a VDS for which I pay £6 a month).
You'll need CalDAV clients for your various devices though. The ones I use are Thunderbird + the Lightning calendar extension on my Ubuntu laptop and http://acal.me/wiki/Main_Page on my Android phone. No idea about the other weirdo OSes you mention.
Joe
On 28/12/13 18:01, Chris Walker wrote:
I've just bought myself a new phone to replace my ageing Nokia N900 and now want to migrate the 6 calendars I have on that to the new phone. But while I'm doing that, I thought I ought to find a way to sync them with a desktop calendar, or some other calendar and that's the purpose of this mail.
I was confused by the URL of this - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Radicale/ to imagine that it ran on a Raspberry Pi but is it a practical proposition to run something like Radicale on a Pi so that I can sync calendars from for example, a Blackberry Playbook, the N900, this 'ere linux box, a Windows machine and my new phone which is a Jolla device?
Or should I think of something else, which doesn't necessarily have to run on a Pi?
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On Sat, 28 Dec 2013 18:46:39 +0000 Joe Button alug3@joebutton.co.uk wrote:
I tried Radicale briefly, although I ended up slightly reluctantly using Owncloud instead as it supports other potentially useful stuff as well as calendars. I see no reason Radicale shouldn't do what you need though, on a pi or otherwise (I run Owncloud + some other stuff on a VDS for which I pay £6 a month).
You'll need CalDAV clients for your various devices though. The ones I use are Thunderbird + the Lightning calendar extension on my Ubuntu laptop and http://acal.me/wiki/Main_Page on my Android phone. No idea about the other weirdo OSes you mention.
Weirdo OSes? ;-)
When sending emails from linux, I suffer from the fact that most of my emailing used to be done from Windows and so that's where the addresses are stored. Would that be included in your 'other potentially useful stuff' label?
On 28/12/13 19:36, Chris Walker wrote:
When sending emails from linux, I suffer from the fact that most of my emailing used to be done from Windows and so that's where the addresses are stored. Would that be included in your 'other potentially useful stuff' label?
I think ownCloud also does CardDAV, which you could use to synchronize your email addresses. I haven't tried that though.
Joe
On 28/12/13 18:01, Chris Walker wrote:
I've just bought myself a new phone to replace my ageing Nokia N900 and now want to migrate the 6 calendars I have on that to the new phone. But while I'm doing that, I thought I ought to find a way to sync them with a desktop calendar, or some other calendar and that's the purpose of this mail.
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Or should I think of something else, which doesn't necessarily have to run on a Pi?
My first thought was to use Google Calendars. You can have multiple calendars and access them from android devices, web browsers, or plugins for Thunderbird, and probably many other calendar apps. I suppose it depends if you want your calenders on-line or not, or trust Google to know & look-after your stuff. Personally I do and let it do my calendars and contacts.
Before starting with Google I wondered if I could use some sort of ical server, but I never really got anywere. Google allows multiple calendars. If you have an android phone you can probably access multiple calendars on it (or at least you can on mine).
Simple to use and set up. Don't have to dial in to home to access it all.
HTH
Steve
On Sat, 28 Dec 2013 18:57:58 +0000 steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
On 28/12/13 18:01, Chris Walker wrote:
I've just bought myself a new phone to replace my ageing Nokia N900 and now want to migrate the 6 calendars I have on that to the new phone. But while I'm doing that, I thought I ought to find a way to sync them with a desktop calendar, or some other calendar and that's the purpose of this mail.
[]
Or should I think of something else, which doesn't necessarily have to run on a Pi?
My first thought was to use Google Calendars. You can have multiple calendars and access them from android devices, web browsers, or plugins for Thunderbird, and probably many other calendar apps. I suppose it depends if you want your calenders on-line or not, or trust Google to know & look-after your stuff. Personally I do and let it do my calendars and contacts.
I do already have a gmail account and associated calendar but I would rather avoid them if possible. I now trust them less than I used to trust Microsoft!
Before starting with Google I wondered if I could use some sort of ical server, but I never really got anywere. Google allows multiple calendars. If you have an android phone you can probably access multiple calendars on it (or at least you can on mine).
My new phone will run Android apps but again, I'd like to avoid them and only run native apps if one exists. (It has its own OS called Sailfish).
Simple to use and set up. Don't have to dial in to home to access it all.
I would only need to sync when I get home anyway so no need to log in while away.
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