(04-20-2021, 07:31 AM)Anna Wrote: Thank you guys for all your suggestions – so far I checked three of them (GSConnect is still on my list) with different outcomes:

Vdirsyncer
Unfortunately, I lacked the required knowledge and skills to understand the tutorial on http://vdirsyncer.pimutils.org and I could not find tips or even videos anywhere else. Someone very familiar with Vdirsyncer even advised me against using it since it was too cumbersome to use for the intended purpose. He instead recommended Nextcloud.

Syncthing
Is part of the repository and relatively easy to use -- I could set it up within a day. However, I could not find a way to synchronise calendar/contacts and if I did not miss anything, it's not possible without additionally using DecSync. Same problem as with Vdirsyncer: I could not find any info I could comprehend.

Nextcloud
Wonderfully easy to install and to get it to work. Calendar and Contacts on my desktop and on the Pinephone do indeed get the entries from Nextcloud, so it could potentially be the solution I was looking for. However, it does not work the other way around: The data from my desktop and from the pp  does not show up in Nextcloud. Also, the entries from Nextcloud are not saved in the standard files (/home/mobian/.local/share/evolution/addressbook(or calendar)/system/contacts.db (or calendar.ics) and I have no Idea where they end up.

Is it possible to set up Nextcloud in such a way that it 1. actually synchronises Contacts and Calendar in both directions and (maybe less importantly) 2. saves the entries in contacts.db and  calendar.ics?

Any ideas welcome … I don't want to give up at this point.

(04-20-2021, 04:01 PM)bitsandnumber Wrote: Maybe you went the wrong way with Nextcloud : you can enable synchronisation in Gnome directly like this,

• install Ubuntu Server in Virtualbox and set up Nextcloud (which is easy and can be quickly done, there are loads of video tutorials)
  
• go to Settings/Online Accounts/Nextcloud on the Pinephone, add the server name etc and choose calendar/contacts and do the same on the computer.
  
• make sure one selects the Nextcloud address book and calendar in Gnome Contacts / Calendar (see above).
  

(04-20-2021, 09:10 AM)Maus Wrote: Oh well ... what a topic. Doing all this with a fully fledged desktop is easy, but along comes the Pinephone with its mobile user interface ...

I found it rather difficult to set up a remote calendar with Mobian. I learnt that in a Gnome environment, you use Evolution to set up such an account, but it completely failed to create an ActiveSync account, with error messages that float around the internet for years, but there seems to be no progress in that area -- these projects are all lacking manpower unfortunately. I managed to connect a CardDAV and a CalDAV account with Evolution, though, and had a hard time deactivating a lot of calendars and address books that had been shared with me previously and should not be synced to my phone. But in the end, lo and behold, I got a two-way sync for calendar and addressbook (though I must admit that I to this date only changed the addressbook on the phone).

One drawback of the Gnome calendaring backend seems to be incomplete handling of event exceptions. I previously had a phone with a kcalcore backend, and while it wasn't complete as well, it improved a lot over time and finally was perfectly usable for me. A solution could be to not use exceptions to events, but to create them one by one as separate events instead of series. Another solution could be helping to improve the software itself, obviously.

There is a multitude of things to nit-pick about in conjunction with this topic, but hey, this is a Linux phone ;-) (and ultimately, you could to something about it yourself).

So, in essence: it's working here, sort of. YMMV.

(10-27-2021, 08:59 PM)dlarson Wrote: Did your contacts in Evolution work with the address book on the phone so you can dial?   I have got Evolution working and the contacts are there but it is not integration with the phone functionality.