This is a CalDAV and CardDAV front-end/proxy for EteSync.
This package provides a local CalDAV and CardDAV server that proxies requests to an EteSync server for use with desktop CalDAV and CardDAV clients.
If all you want is to access your data from a computer, you are probably better off using the web app.
This is essentially a compatibility layer between EteSync and DAV clients.
This depends on the radicale_storage_etesync module and the Radicale server for operation.
pip install etesync-dav
The above should be either run as root, or better yet, inside a python "virtualenv".
The package etesync-dav is available on AUR.
If you are self-hosting the EteSync server, you will need to set the
ETESYNC_URL environment variable to the URL of your server. By default it
uses the official EteSync server at https://api.etesync.com. The commands
below all use this environment variable to determine which server to
connect to.
You need to first add an EteSync user using etesync-dav-manage, for example:
etesync-dav-manage add [email protected]
Substitute “[email protected]” with the username or email you use with your
EteSync account or self-hosted server.
and then run the server:
etesync-dav
After this, set up your CalDAV/CardDAV client to use the username and password
you got from etesync-dav-manage, or alternatively run:
etesync-dav-manage get [email protected] to get them again.
Depending on the client you use, the server path should either be:
http://localhost:37358/http://localhost:37358/[email protected]/
On most clients this should automatically detect your collections (i.e. calendars and address books).
If your client does not automatically detect your collections, you will
need to manually add them. You need to find the “collection URL” for each
collection you want to add. Currently, the simplest way to do this is to
log in to the web interface provided by the internal Radicale server. Just
open http://localhost:37358/ in your browser (or
substitute “localhost” for the hostname or IP address of the etesync-dav
instance). Then you will need to log in using the username and password
given by the etesync-dav-manage tool as described above (run etesync-dav get [email protected] to get them again). The Radicale web interface shows
the collections with their names and URLs. You can just copy and paste the
URLs into your client. You will most likely also need to manually copy and
paste the collection names as well, and select a color manually.
Alternative ways to get collection URLs include programmatically using the
pyetesync module (see
example.py
for example usage), or copy it from the debug page in the EteSync Android
app. When using example.py, the EteSync server address that should be
used is https://api.etesync.com when interacting with the production
server.
etesync-dav stores data in the directory specified by the CONFIG_DIR
environment variable. This includes a database, credentials, and Radicale
configuration file. This directory is not relocatable, so if you change
CONFIG_DIR you will need to regenerate these files (which means
reconfiguring clients). It may be possible to manually edit these files to
the new path. Note that the database will just mirror the content of your
main EteSync database so in most cases you should not lose anything if you
delete it.
CONFIG_DIR defaults to a subdirectory of the appropriate config directory
for your platform (~/.config/etesync-dav on Unix/Linux, see
appdirs module docs for where it
will be on other platforms).
The following clients have been tested:
- Thunderbird
- This package is missing startups script for automatic execution on startup.
- Due to an issue with one of the dependencies, some contacts, namely groups, will sometimes fail to work. Revelant PR: skarim/vobject#77