Calendars

Calendars

Each HomeHDA server has a calendar server included.

The publishing URL for the calendar is

   http://calendar/

This server is meant to share calendars with other people who can access the server.

Eventually we will have a web interface to the calendar server (accessible through the http://calendar/ URL itself), however, for the time being, you need to use a c alendar program to publish and subscribe as well as set and delete appointments in calendars in the server.

Publishing Calendars

To publish or subscribe to a calendar in this server, you need three things:

1. A client calendar program,
1. The publishing location or URL, which is: http://calendar/, and
1. The calendar name of your choice, typically Home, John, Kids, etc.[* See Note]

Calendar Clients

Calendars can be created with widely available clients such as:

• Apple iCal, for Mac OS X:

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• Mozilla Sunbird and Lightning (a perfect calendar companion for Thunderbird), for Windows, Mac and Linux.

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• Windows Calendar, for Windows Vista.

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• Evolution, for Linux

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• Kontact, for Linux

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• ... and some others. Pretty soon there will also be web-based interfaces.

Note

[*] Some clients, notably Sunbird, may require that the name of the calendar have the ical extension, e.g. Home.ics. You may need to experiment with this until it w

orks. Please add your experiences to this page or add links to it.

Technical Details

Technically, every HDA server has a WebDAV server, commonly used for sharing online calendars as well as other files.