So, I’ve got a homelab thing going, with NextCloud and Immich and other things… using Docker. But the one thing I can’t seem to wrap my head around is how to get my calendar needs met behind the scenes. I’m hoping there’s some sort of calendar syncing server I can use.
The problem: I use NextCloud and another android app to use my calendar. Easy. Historically, my household has used a single Google Calendar shared amongst members.
The real problem: They won’t ditch Google. But I need a solution so that I can:
- Sync their calendar events to my NextCloud calendar.
- Sync my calendar events to their Google Calendar. I think that the issue here is, the share links that the calendars give, can only be used to list a new separate calendar on each of the respective platforms - not sync the events between the existing calendars…
I’m hoping that there’s maybe a syncing solution out there that can play middle man and sync the two calendars directly, rather than having separate calendars for the two environments?
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Someone else mentioned just using a calendar client that can connect to different calendars.
I use Fossify to connect to calendars through Davx, which includes my Google calendar (configured it through DavX).
This way all entries remain independent. And I can filter my calendar view based on source calendar, and all entries are color coded (automatically) by which calendar they’re on.
I know it’s not exactly what you were asking for, buy it’s one way to approach it.
Why don’t you just subscribe to their shared calendars and have your own calendars hosted by yourself? I mean, I have around 10 to 20 calendars subscribed for different topics.
If you sync the Calendar with Google, you don’t have privacy anyway. So I would at least protect my own private info, if they don’t want.
@KingDingbat I don’t have a good answer for you (I’m in a similar situation, with my wife stuck using both google calendar and microsoft’s extremely shitty calendar, while I use radicale). However, depending upon your goals for self-hosting your calendar, I’d ask whether you really *want* google seeing your calendar entries. If your goal is independence, then fine. If one of your goals is privacy, then sharing your calendar entries w/ google messes that up.
Hahah hello friend. No, I don’t want Google to have my calendar entries. I’m just trying to achieve baby steps peacefully with the family. If it were my choice, we’d cut off Google without a second thought, but ooooh no. We’ve been using Google Calendar for 20 years. We don’t WANT to change. 🙄
The easy way is to use a calendar client and not try to inject the calendar into your server.
