I’ve searched the forums and the web to find out if I can use the KDE calendar, which I understand is Kalendar, on my laptop and my phone, with the two being synchronised all the time.
From my search I believe I may have to set up a nextcloud and Kalendar on my laptop. Then I would have to set up some sort of calendar application on my phone and synchronise the two via next cloud.
Can anyone advise me what the best way to do this is? I want to be able to rely on both my laptop and my phone as a calendar. If I insert a calendar entry into my phone, I want it to show up on my laptop and vice versa.
I am relatively new to Linux. I’m running Ubuntu but looking to switch to Kubuntu and immerse myself in the KDE environment if I can get this calendar thing working.
Personally, I gave up on that syncing this and that a long time ago. Since I have an android phone and use some Google services I use ssb’s or pwa’s.
No problems with constantly changing api’s and what not . Of course, it depends which calendar you exactly use but…
What I have on my Android phone is DavX to provide CalDAV integration, which can sync into my Fastmail account. Nextcloud seems like the kind of software that should also support CalDAV.
The calendar resource created by DavX can then be used by any Android calendar app to store events that will get synced with your server, and you’ll get updates from your server as well automatically.
I’m happy with Simple Calendar which is open source, provides a nice Android interface, and lets me pick the calendar.
The only thing that was annoying is that something on my Samsung phone deleted all calendar events further back than 3 months in the past. To solve this, I changed the DavX settings so it won’t sync anything that’s further back than 2 months (iirc). Now everything works pretty great.
Once you have the phone hooked up to Nextcloud via CalDAV, the desktop side with Kalendar (or any other calendar app) should be relatively straightforward.
