I want my appointments calendar to be available in lots of places. I have a desktop computer, an Ericsson T68 phone, and a Sharp Zaurus. I’d like to have my appointments calendar in a number of places: on my desktop, accessible to gdeskcal, on my Zaurus in the Zaurus calendar application, or in a different Zaurus calendar application if a different one would be easier, and also somewhere on the web so that other people can subscribe to it and see if I’m busy. The phone can synchronise with an online WAP SyncML server. The Zaurus should theoretically be able to sync with my desktop (although I can’t seem to get this to work; the usbnet module loads on hotplug but no usb0 is created). Does anyone have any suggestions? I could, for example, use gdeskcal to manage my appointments, publish them to the web, SyncML them from the web to the phone, and then from the phone to the Zaurus via Bluetooth. Alternatively, I could fix the Zaurus sync, sync the Zaurus and gdeskcal together, and then cron a job that publishes the calendar to the web. i don’t know what the best approach is, nor which tools to use. Suggestions are very welcome.
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Jon Hicks
sil
You think you’re funny. :)
I could use Mozilla Sunbird, which supports the iCalendar format (the same as iCal), but that doesn’t solve my problem of doing it on the move—how do I sync the data back and forth to my Zaurus?
Moreover, Sunbird, while a very neat application, is pretty large. I like gDeskcal because it just sits in the background of my desktop all the time and shows me which days have appointments. I don’t want to leave a big calendar app on my desktop all day if I can avoid it; I have to do that at work, and it annoys the hell out of me.
I would look at syncing data between Sunbird and gDeskcal; I’ve thought about that, and it’s about the best solution I’ve come up with so far. I’m thinking something like: gDeskcal displays my appointment calendar on my desktop. Sync that calendar to Sunbird, which auto-publishes it to a webdav server. Sync the webdav server to a WAP syncml server (probably running on the same machine). Sync my mobile phone with the WAP SyncML server, which can happen online automatically. Sync my Zaurus with my phone via Bluetooth.
That would all work. Seems a bit fuckin’ complex, though, doesn’t it? :)
Schwuk
MultiSync – name says it all…
sil
MultiSync will sync to my Zaurus (assuming that I can get he damned thing to pug into my machine fine), but it won’t sync from an arbitrary calendar. I’d have to be using Evolution, and Evolution eats the dog’s nuts. I’ve thought abuot writing a MultiSync plugin for gDeskcal’s calendar, but I can’t find any documentation on writing MultiSync plugins.
sil
Further update: PHPiCalendar displays gDeskcal calendars very nicely, so that’s cool; I have solved the “display it on the web” problem. Now only “get the data onto my Zaurus“, “sync any Zaurus changes back to gDeskcal“, and “let other people subscribe to my calendar info” to go!
sil
Ahaha!
Apparently 2.6.4 and 2.6.5 broke usbnet for Zaurus connections! It seems to be working again in later kernels, so I shall upgrade my kernel. Excellent. I shall then use multisync to sync the Z, as per Schwuk’s suggestion. That only leaves me needing a multisync plugin for gdeskcal and then I’m golden!
Bill
http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/99/07/18/1714250.shtml
Vox
check out Rainledar. it’s a nice desktop display for Sunbird, and it doesn’t bog down the system
sil
Vox: thanks for the suggestion. Sadly, Rainledar, the client, is Windows only. But hopefully some Windows users will find this a useful pointer.
SithlordX
Hi, i m new here I have a Zaurus SL-5500 and i want to setup calendar sycn between the Zaurus and the desktop running Sunbird on Ubuntu 5.10 through a wireless network. Any suggestions on what to do or what software, plugin or drivers i would need?
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iCal and a webdav server!!! Oh, sorry, you haven’t got a mac have you :o)