Re: Syncing Lightning with Google Calendar

[Mike Easter]

Hartdonor wrote:
> I've read in several threads in the group that you can sync your Lighting
> calendar with Google calendar.
>
> How is this accomplished? I don't see any menu items that shed light on
> it.

Disclaimer: I don't do it but I searched no quotes 'sync lightning
google calendar' and found some interesting articles.

Here are the ones I liked.

http://www.webupd8.org/2012/03/how-to-synchronize-google-calendar-with.html
How To Synchronize Google Calendar With Thunderbird

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/provider-for-google-calendar/?src=hp-dl-mostpopular
Provider for Google Calendar 1.0.4
by Philipp Kewisch - Allows bidirectional access to Google Calendar

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/using-lightning-google-calendar
Using Lightning with Google Calendar


--
Mike Easter

[Mike Easter]

Hartdonor wrote:
> sync your Lighting calendar with Google calendar.

There is also a support group here for m.s.calendar.


--
Mike Easter

[WaltS48]

On 12/17/2015 12:21 PM, Hartdonor wrote:
> I've read in several threads in the group that you can sync your Lighting
> calendar with Google calendar.
>

> How is this accomplished? I don't see any menu items that shed light on
> it.
>

Using Lightning with Google Calendar | Thunderbird Help -

<https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/using-lightning-google-calendar#thunderbird>

I don't Google, so that's all I can offer.

--
Linux Mint 17.2 "Rafaela" | KDE 4.14.2 | Thunderbird 45.0a2 (Earlybird)
You don't need zero-days when machines wherever are packed with old-days.
Go Bucs! (next season) Go Pens! Go Sabres! Go Pitt!
[Visit Pittsburgh]<http://www.visitpittsburgh.com/>
[Coexist · Understanding Across Divides]<https://www.coexist.org/>

[John Kaufmann]

On 2015-1217 12:39, Mike Easter wrote:

> There is also a support group here for m.s.calendar.

Sorry, what is m.s.calendar? Outlook?

[»Q«]

In
<news:mailman.259.1450374585.2...@lists.mozilla.org>,

It's an abbreviation for the newsgroup mozilla.support.calendar, which
is also available as a mailing list,
<https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-calendar>.

[Bob Henson]

On 17/12/2015 5:21 pm, Hartdonor wrote:
> I've read in several threads in the group that you can sync your Lighting
> calendar with Google calendar.
>
> How is this accomplished? I don't see any menu items that shed light on
> it.
>

Add the "Provider for Google Calendar" extension and restart. Add a new
calendar, select Google Calendar, add your email address for that
calender, log in, wait a moment or two while it syncs, and that's it.

gContactSync extension does the same for Google contacts, (adds them as
an address book) if you're interested.

--
Bob
Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she
stops to breathe.

[Chris]

On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 18:44:51 +0000, Bob Henson <rh54...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Add the "Provider for Google Calendar" extension and restart. Add a
new
> calendar, select Google Calendar, add your email address for that
> calender, log in, wait a moment or two while it syncs, and that's
it.

I use CalDav which is supported by both Lightning and Google
Calendar. You may have use of other (non-Google) calendars e.g. gmx,
where there won't be an add-on for Thunderbird. CalDav is therefore
a more general solution.

--
Chris

[Bob Henson]

How do you use it from within Thunderbird?

--
Bob
Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England

Assumption - an error of which you are as yet unaware.

[Christian Riechers]

On 12/18/2015 12:17 PM, Bob Henson wrote:
> On 17/12/2015 11:01 pm, Chris wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 18:44:51 +0000, Bob Henson <rh54...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Add the "Provider for Google Calendar" extension and restart. Add a
>> new
>>> calendar, select Google Calendar, add your email address for that
>>> calender, log in, wait a moment or two while it syncs, and that's
>> it.
>>
>> I use CalDav which is supported by both Lightning and Google
>> Calendar. You may have use of other (non-Google) calendars e.g. gmx,
>> where there won't be an add-on for Thunderbird. CalDav is therefore
>> a more general solution.
>>
>
> How do you use it from within Thunderbird?

https://blog.mozilla.org/calendar/2013/09/google-is-changing-the-location-url-of-their-caldav-calendars/

[Chris Ramsden]

On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 11:17:47 +0000, Bob Henson wrote:

> On 17/12/2015 11:01 pm, Chris wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 18:44:51 +0000, Bob Henson <rh54...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Add the "Provider for Google Calendar" extension and restart. Add a
>> new
>>> calendar, select Google Calendar, add your email address for that
>>> calender, log in, wait a moment or two while it syncs, and that's
>> it.
>>
>> I use CalDav which is supported by both Lightning and Google Calendar.
>> You may have use of other (non-Google) calendars e.g. gmx,
>> where there won't be an add-on for Thunderbird. CalDav is therefore a
>> more general solution.
>>
>>
> How do you use it from within Thunderbird?

"CalDav" appears as one of the calendar format types when you add the
networked calendar. The main inconvenience is having to grub around the
calendar provider's website (or elsewhere) to find the correct URL and
its formulation.

e.g. <https://blog.mozilla.org/calendar/2013/09/google-is-changing-the-
location-url-of-their-caldav-calendars/>

--
Chris

[Bob Henson]

On 17/12/2015 11:01 pm, Chris wrote:

Ignore my last comment, I've just seen the option to use it. Can you use
it to access Microsoft Outlook calendars directly? That would probably
be the other most commonly desired linkup. I use SyncMyCal to link
Outlook to the Google Calendar - but if there's an easier way it might
be interesting.

--
Bob
Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like
a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
- Winston Churchill

[Chris Ramsden]

On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 11:28:06 +0000
Bob Henson <rh54...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I use CalDav...

> >
>
> Ignore my last comment, I've just seen the option to use it. Can you
> use it to access Microsoft Outlook calendars directly? That would
> probably be the other most commonly desired linkup. I use SyncMyCal
> to link Outlook to the Google Calendar - but if there's an easier way
> it might be interesting.
>

I've always had enormous trouble finding the right URLs for M$
services. My reading on stack overflow etc leads me to believe that M$
don't expose their service in useful way.

Maybe this add-on could be useful:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/calendar-ews/https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/calendar-ews/

--
Chris

[Big Al]

Link don't work.

[WaltS48]

Try <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/calendar-ews/>

[Tanstaafl]

On 12/17/2015 6:01 PM, Chris <chris....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 18:44:51 +0000, Bob Henson <rh54...@gmail.com>
> wrote:

>> Add the "Provider for Google Calendar" extension and restart. Add
>> a new calendar, select Google Calendar, add your email address for
>> that calender, log in, wait a moment or two while it syncs, and
>> that's it.

> I use CalDav which is supported by both Lightning and Google
> Calendar. You may have use of other (non-Google) calendars e.g. gmx,
> where there won't be an add-on for Thunderbird. CalDav is therefore
> a more general solution.

Yes, but it is not nearly as nice of a solution for Google Calendars as
when using the Provider Addon. It provides the ability to choose what
additional calendars you want, and setup is about as painless as it gets.

Use pure CalDAV for others when needed, sure, but then, Thunderbird's
CalDAV support isn't that great as it is.

[Mike Easter]

Big Al wrote:
> Chris Ramsden:

>> Maybe this add-on could be useful:
>> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/calendar-ews/https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/calendar-ews/
>>
> Link don't work.
>

It's doubled. Remove one of them.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/calendar-ews/

--
Mike Easter