Comment on Help me understand contacts, calendar and caldav/cardav
2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Fastmail looks like they have CalDAV and CardDAV support (fastmail.help/…/1500000278342-Server-names-and-po…). If you actually want to use their contacts and calendar, why do you want to host another yourself? Two-way sync sounds like a pain.
You just need to connect your devices to it. Unfortunately Google thinks PIM sync is not worthwhile to have on Android unless you use their service, so you’ll need some extra apps. I used DAVx5 (it’s free if you get it from F-Droid), Tasks.org and OneCalendar in the past for this.
Aaah… I think I got it now.
Caldav/cardav are the standard protocols used in this case. So every sane provider uses them. Davx5 creates a local account and interacts with the android apps (like google calendar) by pulling/pushing new events from and to the server respectively.
So, I can keep using google calendar, with my FM account instead of google 👍 noice!
Right, exactly.
Thx for the info, didn’t know DAVx5 was free on f-droid.
why do you want to host another
That’s the thing, that I don’t really understand. I thought I could host a centralized caldav/cardav server, and link all the other services that have their own “implementation” of contacts/calendars. This way, if I move away from Fastmail, I could just link another mail provider, that offers their calendars/contacts.
Sorry if my questions sound dumb or newbish.
Dianoga@lemm.ee 6 months ago
This is what I do. DAVx5 works well as long as you’re ok withiut realtime sync (you can pick how fast you want it).