I am trying to slowly peel away from Google and my next task is Google Calendar. I currently have a couple shared calendars with other people and I’m not going to be able to break them free from Google quite yet. I have a next cloud server I was hoping to set up to be my primary source but I need to be able to interact with the shared calendars as well. Can I create a group calendar and have other persons, Google Calendar sync to it?

I’m not married to Next Cloud. It was just what I have available. I can do a different setup if that would work better.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

TIA

  • Luke@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    Unfortunately, all the calendar solutions seem to be pretty terrible in one way or another. Your NextCloud server along with DAVx⁵ on Android is the most functional private alternative, IMO.

    The setup still sometimes has some of the same issues that all calendars seem to have (even Google’s and Apple’s): occasional sync issues, or old deleted appointments that mysteriously show up again, or calendars duplicating themselves.

    I don’t know why calendaring seems to be one of those things that just never really got done well, it seems like it should be a solved problem by now.

  • jevans ⁂@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    I have a Google account that I created with a throwaway non-gmail email account. I don’t use the email or the Google account for anything else. I then sync my required Google calendars to that (my partner still uses Google, so does my union and my work), and I sync that account to my phone with DAVx5 and to my computers with vdirsyncer (eventually pimsync, when it makes it to nix home-manager) by setting up Google CalDAV API credentials as explained here.

    I have to use a local calendar app on each device to see my Google calendar with my NextCloud calendars, but it’s the best that’s possible, I think.

  • sunth1ef@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    1 day ago

    Proton Calendar is working well for me. I send and respond to invites from friends and family within it, and it is even able to view my work calendar which unfortunately has to live in Google. I can view work events from my personal device without needing to use any Google login on my own devices so it works for me. Proton Calendar’s UI and UX is pretty similar to Google Calendar IMO