Comments on: Windows Mobile Calendar Sync

By: michael

michael — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:05:36 +0000

Heya!
i’ve been looking all over the place for an ICS merger…
thank you so much for this post, it seems i could make so real progress with the code you wrote…
however,
i can’t get it working. when i run it in a python shell i get this information… (i have didn’t make any changes to line numbering, just changed the input/output files, as indicated)

Python 3.1.2 (r312:79149, Mar 21 2010, 00:41:52) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
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>>> ================================ RESTART ================================
>>>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “D:\my documents\My Dropbox\backups\thunderbird\calendars\merge_icals.py”, line 40, in
for LINE in fileinput.input(files=INPUTFILE):
File “C:\Python31\lib\fileinput.py”, line 254, in __next__
line = self.readline()
File “C:\Python31\lib\fileinput.py”, line 349, in readline
self._buffer = self._file.readlines(self._bufsize)
File “C:\Python31\lib\encodings\cp1255.py”, line 23, in decode
return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: ‘charmap’ codec can’t decode byte 0×90 in position 398: character maps to
>>>

i’ve got basically ZERO programing knowledge, so if it involves writing code, i might need the step-by-step-newbie version of it…

your help is highly appreciated! and once again, thank you!
Michael

By: Oliver

Oliver — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:21:51 +0000

Unfortunally, no . I tried it on my old system and couldn’t reproduce that. But atm I’m using a different system, so I didn’t dig deeper into that matter. Hope I’ll find some time to do this soon… either that or hope that M$ will release a better Active Sync with Windows Mobile 7.

By: Ronny

Ronny — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:23:37 +0000

I tried to do the same steps as you did. My problem is, that, if there’s a change in the merged ics file, which I import into Sunbird, Sunbird shows the change correctly, but the funambol client does not sync it.
If I do the changes directly in sunbird, everything works fine.

Any suggestions?

By: Oliver

Oliver — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:11:37 +0000

Hi Jörg,

sure I’m curious. DAViCal would’ve been my choice for this later project anyway, since I want to use it as some kind of middleware server without having another calendar to worry about. Unfortunally setting up the server will be the easier part compared to all the scripts I need to code, but hey, I’m sure it’ll get interesting . Tell be about it on Wednesday.

By: Joerg

Joerg — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:52:22 +0000

Hi Oli,

I setup an CalDav Server (Davical) last night. There you can share Calender Information with other persons or Devices. Curious about it?