Remote calendar from private iCloud or any CalDAV source¶
You can add any calendar that supports CalDAV over HTTPS basic authentication with a few providers already confirmed to work.
Calendars are automatically re-fetched from their source at most every five minutes. If you would like to revalidate remote calendars directly, you can run the command Full Calendar: Revalidate remote calendars.
Apple Calendar¶
In order to use your iCloud Calendar, you'll first need to create an app-specific password. Armed with that info, you can now add your private Apple Calendars.
Fastmail¶
In order to set up Fastmail, you'll want to set the calendar dropdown to CalDAV and click the add button to open the setup dialog.
To continue, we'll need to fill out a few fields.
Username¶
This is just your email address, whether it's an @fastmail.com address or a custom domain. If in doubt, such as if you have a sub account within a Fastmail organisation, you can confirm your address by logging into the web UI and checking the address listed in the top left corner.
Password¶
As above, you'll want to make an app password to populate your calendar by navigating to Settings -> Passwords & Security -> Third-party apps (Manage) and creating a new password.
Under the Access dropdown, you can create a password restricted to the Calendars (CalDAV) scope.
URL¶
We need to deviate a bit from the official Fastmail documentation here and reference the specific calendar endpoint for your account.
If your email address used in the Username section is user@example.com, then your URL field will need to look like so:
https://caldav.fastmail.com/dav/principals/user/user@example.com/
If in doubt, you can find the specific URL by navigating to Settings -> Calendars and then click Export on any of the calendars you have.
Under CalDAV URL, you can copy the URL but make sure you only copy up to the trailing slash after your email address as shown in the codeblock just above.
Flythrough¶
Non-working providers¶
There are a few providers which are not yet supported by the CalDAV sync option:
- Google Calendar requires OAuth instead of HTTP basic authentication.