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General information

The goal of this tutorial is to explain how to synchronize calendar and contacts between the Nextcloud server and your client using the command line.

For this operation the software that will be used are:

Vdirsyncer: a command-line tool for synchronizing calendars and addressbooks between a variety of servers and the local filesystem. More info here
Khard an address book for the GNU/Linux console. It creates, reads, modifies and removes carddav address book entries at your local machine. Khard is also compatible to the email clients like Mutt. More info here
Khal is a standards based CLI and terminal calendar program, able to synchronize with CalDAV servers through vdirsyncer. More info here

Vdirsyncer

Install vdirsyncer for your GNU/Linux distribution. If there is no suitable package for your distribution, you’ll need to install vdirsyncer manually

Configuration

Path of the configuration file: "~/.config/vdirsyncer/config"
Contents of the config file:

[general]
# A folder where vdirsyncer can store some metadata about each pair.
status_path = "~/.vdirsyncer/status/"

# CARDDAV
[pair YOUR-USERNAME]
# A `[pair <name>]` block defines two storages `a` and `b` that should be
# synchronized. The definition of these storages follows in `[storage <name>]`
# blocks. This is similar to accounts in OfflineIMAP.
a = "Local"
b = "Remote"

# Synchronize all collections available on "side B" (in this case the server).
# You need to run `vdirsyncer discover` if new calendars/addressbooks are added
# on the server.

# Omitting this parameter implies that the given path and URL in the
# corresponding `[storage <name>]` blocks are already directly pointing to a
# collection each.
collections = ["from b"]

# Synchronize the "display name" property into a local file (~/.contacts/displayname).
metadata = ["YOUR-USERNAME"]

# To resolve a conflict the following values are possible:
#   `null` - abort when collisions occur (default)
#   `"a wins"` - assume a's items to be more up-to-date
#   `"b wins"` - assume b's items to be more up-to-date
conflict_resolution = "a wins"

[storage Local]
# A storage references actual data on a remote server or on the local disk.
# Similar to repositories in OfflineIMAP.
type = "filesystem"
path = "~/.contacts/"
fileext = ".vcf"

[storage Remote]
type = "carddav"
url = "https://cloud.disroot.org/remote.php/dav/addressbooks/users/YOUR-USERNAME/contatti/"
username = "YOUR-USERNAME"
# The password can also be fetched from the system password storage, netrc or a
# custom command. See http://vdirsyncer.readthedocs.org/en/stable/keyring.html
password = "YOUR-PASSWORD"

# CALDAV
#[pair Calendar]
a = "CalendarLocal"
b = "CalendarRemote"
## collections = ["private", "work"]
collections = ["from b"]

## Calendars also have a color property
metadata = ["YOUR-USERNAME"]

## To resolve a conflict the following values are possible:
## `null` - abort when collisions occur (default)
## `"a wins"` - assume a's items to be more up-to-date
## `"b wins"` - assume b's items to be more up-to-date
conflict_resolution = "a wins"

[storage CalendarLocal]
type = "filesystem"
path = "~/.calendars/"
fileext = ".ics"

[storage CalendarRemote]
type = "caldav"
url = "https://cloud.disroot.org/remote.php/dav/"
username = "YOUR-USERNAME"
password = "YOUR-PASSWORD"

After having completed the configuration file, run this commands:

vdirsyncer discover

You will be asked if you want to create the missing directories. Answer yes

vdirsyncer sync

To synchronize the contacts and calendars just give the following command:

vdirsyncer sync

This command can be automated using cron

Now you have synchronized your calendars and your contacts. In your local machine contacts are stored in ~/.contacts/ with the .vcf format.
Calendars are stored in ~/.calendars/ with the .ics format.

Khard

Install khal for your GNU/Linux distribution. If there is no suitable package for your distribution, you’ll need to install Khard manually

Configuration

Path of the configuration file: ~/.config/khard/khard.conf.
Contents of the khard.conf file:

[addressbooks]
[[YOUR-USERNAMENE]]
path = ~/.contacts/contatti/

[general]
editor = vim
merge_editor = vimdiff
default_action = list
show_nicknames = no

Show contacts: khard list
Show details: * khard details*
Search contacts: khard details [-- strict-search] name of contact
For more information: khard -h

Khal

Install khal for your GNU/Linux distribution.
If there is no suitable package for your distribution, you’ll need to install Khal manually

Configuration

Path of the configuration file: ~/.config/khal/config Contents of the config file:

[calendars]
[[CALENDAR1]]
   path = ~/.calendars/CALENDAR1/
   color = dark cyan

[[CALENDAR2]]
   path = ~/.calendars/CALENDAR2/
   color = dark magenta


[locale]
timeformat = %H:%M
dateformat = %Y-%m-%d
longdateformat = %Y-%m-%d
datetimeformat = %Y-%m-%d %H:%M
longdatetimeformat = %Y-%m-%d %H:%M

local_timezone = Europe/Berlin
default_timezone = Europe/Berlin

firstweekday = 0

CALENDAR1 AND CALENDAR2 are the name of your calendars in Nextcloud".

Show calendar: khal
Interactive khal (let's browse and edit calendars and events): ikhal
For more information: khal -h

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