Re: [Evolution] CalDAV - any successes out there

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 19:05 -0500, Don Levey wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 10:01 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > I've been struggling with CalDAV and Evolution for a while now.  I've
> > had some minor successes but, in general, I can not get it to work
> > reliably.
> >
> > I've tried various servers, including Cosmo, RSCDS and Bedework (all at
> > various version levels) and Evolution 2.4.x, 2.6.x and 2.8.x.  I managed
> > to get something approaching stability using Evo 2.6.x and Cosmo 0.3,
> > but that broke when going to either Evo 2.8 or Cosmo >0.3.  RSCDS worked
> > for a little while with Evo 2.8, but stopped recently when I went to Evo
> > 2.8.2 (it will store events, but can't see them) - the RSCDS
> > installation is fine because Sunbird happily sees the events.
> >
> > So *is* anyone using CalDAV successfully on Evo?  If so what server &
> > versions do you use?  All I want to do is to read and update a personal
> > calendar from 3 or 4 different machines.
> >
> > Pete
>
>
> I *was* able to get CalDAV to work.  Stress the "was".  I've been
> successfully using Cosmo/Scooby (OSAF - www.osafoundation.org) v0.3 for
> most of a year without issues.  As far as I can tell, the upgrade from
> evolution-data-server 1.8.2 to 1.8.3 on 14-feb broke my access.  Now I
> can no longer see any of my events on the calendars - though I can see
> them when looking at the server directly.  Server reports no errors -
> for some reason, the front end just won't display.  Feh.
>
> I'm not doing anything complex, I'm not trying to connect to an exchange
> server, or manage hundreds of users with weird configurations.  But if I
> knew of an alternative that *worked* I'd jump at it in a heartbeat.  

Sounds very similar to my experiences.  My current modus operandi is to
have one of my Evo's as a sort of master that publishes it's local
calendar using WebDAV - I then just read that using WebCAL on my other
machines.  My "collaborative" calendars (i.e. my wife and daughter) are
handled using Google calendars and just displayed in Evo.

P.