Proton Calendar to...Android calendar? Via caldav, perhaps? (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 months ago by iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi guys! So, I have Proton Mail, and this also gives me the Calendar. I love that I have a encrypted private calendar, but it bothers me that it doesn’t play well with any other app, as it’s not officially a “calendar” to Android. This bothers me, because I use GrapheneOS, with mostly no Google services, and I'd like my Gadgetbridge-connected smartwatch to be able to display calendar events, since they're not being shared with anyone else. But I can't, because Proton Calendar isn't really an Android Calendar. There’s a way in Proton to permanently share a link to your private calendar. In effect, it’s an up-to-date .ics file, that I believe needs to be checked/downloaded every time there’s an update. Is there a way to update this in Proton? Alternatively, I wouldn’t mind creating some caldav system that imported this, but not sure if there’s already any guide for it?

Thanks so much!

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[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I don't understand the question.

I use GOS with Proton Cal and it gives me notifications. These should be pushed to your watch over BT.

Proton doesn't work like other calendars because it's encrypted. I guess they could make something similar to the "mail bridge" for this purpose? In fact, that may work already with something like Thunderbird and then you could install thunderbird on Android and link them together? Not really sure.

[-] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yes, it gives you notifications on events about to happens (or for which you have set a timed notification ahead of the time). But can you get a week overview? Or a day overview? Do you have a calendar in the watch? Because I do, and mine is empty because it can't sync with proton (mind you, I still receive notifications for the events coming in 30mins, or a day ahead if I set it that way on the proton calendar app...but I can't view the event itself, just the notification of it!).

Android itself (GrapheneOS in my case) isn't getting calendar events, because Proton Calendar isn't an Android Calendar app. If you click on your Permission Manager, you can see the different kinds of permission specific apps can request. As in, access to the phone, to the cameras, to the SMS, to the files....to the CALENDAR. Guess which app doesn't even bother to use the Android calendar infrastructure laid for them? Because internally it's not officially an android calendar app, at least not internally in its manifest.

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 points 3 months ago

I don't have a watch because I find they add little utility and are overwhelmingly invasive and proprietary. So I don't know about any of that, sorry.

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