[Gpe-list] Gpe-calendar download/sync support

[Graham Cobb]

Readers of this list may be interested in the following discussion which has 
been occurring on the Maemo (Nokia Internet Tablet) list and in private email 
(posted with permission).  This GPE Calendar user wants easy, user-ready, 
two-way synchronisation with Google Calendar.  Seems like a reasonable 
request!

I think the medium term solution, with full two-way synchronisation, may be to 
get Opensync to work on the device (which I am currently working on).  Why 
re-invent a synchronisation framework when one already exists?  It will, 
however, need a user friendly GUI.

In the meantime, a useful interim solution would be to have one-way sync from 
Google Calendar into GPE Calendar.  However, this apparently doesn't work 
with a service called "Schedule World" (which I think is SyncML based).  
Anyone have any experience using Schedule World?  Should it work with the GPE 
Calendar "subscribe" feature?

Graham

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Subject: [lists] Re: [maemo-users] gpesyncd
Date: Monday 22 January 2007 15:13
From: "Jonathan Greene" <atmasphere at atmasphere.net>

This is definitely beyond my current skills...  I essentially need a
set it and forget it URI to subscribe to if possible...   It looks
like GPE Cal supports a scheduled sync which is cool - though I just
tried getting it to work with Schedule World and nothing is happening.
 I'll keep on standing by -- I'm sure more than just us are interested
in a solid PIM solution for this platform.

Thanks,
JG

On 1/22/07, Graham Cobb wrote:
> On Monday 22 January 2007 13:34, you wrote:
> > opensync sounds excellent.  Is the sync two way?  I've been actively
> > using Google calendar.  On my phones, I sync using goosync which is a
> > syncml service... Seems like opensync locally on the N800 or 770 could
> > start to get us somewhere serious if data can also flow back upstream.
>
> Yes, Opensync is two-way -- see www.opensync.org (I recommend using a
> recent package or even build it from SVN).  It works very well if you have
> a separate linux system on which you can run Opensync (the GPE plugin knows
> how to talk to a 770).  I use this to automatically synchronise (every
> night) GPE on my 770 with KDE kontact on my linux system and receive items
> from Outlook (via Exchange OWA).  You can find more information on the way
> I use that at http://www.cobb.uk.net/OWA/owasync.html.  Although I don't
> use Google calendar I understand that there is a Google calendar plugin
> available so I believe that should work.
>
> On the other hand, running Opensync locally on the 770 is currently
> unproven. I am experimenting with it to see how well it can work.  So far,
> it is quite slow and I have not made any attempt to make the Google
> calendar plugin available yet.  My first goal is to get it working well
> enough to synchronise my phone with GPE on the 770 without having to
> involve an external system. It is working well for contacts but I am having
> some problem with calendar events which I haven't had time to track down so
> far.  It definitely isn't ready for prime-time yet!
>
> Graham

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