B3 and Owncloud
Posted: 18 Aug 2014, 12:11
After the embarrassment of my post last week (where I thought I'd got a failed B3 but it was a GbE port on my switch) I decided to share this weekend's good news.
I had Owncloud running on the B3 for a while (see my earlier posts) but it didn't really achieve much and consequently due to lack of time and interest fell into an unusable state. Early this year I had a shot at upgrading to Owncloud 6 and that was a miserable failure.
This weekend I had some time to spare so decided to have a shot at Owncloud 7. This seemed altogether easier install according to the documentation I found. So, added the repo and issued a few commands waited a little while and then pointed the browser at the web address of the b3 and the tailoring wizard appeared. This ran cleanly and I had a user up all pretty quick. I guess no more than an hour. All jolly good!
Now, the reason for my interest is I'd had a shared (for the whole of the family) calendar on my original Owncloud that worked quite well and I wanted to get that going again plus share contact lists. In the meantime I'd got an iphone and ipad so I also wanted have a single calendar and contact list across both. What I noticed yesterday (Sunday) was that there seemed to be all sorts of problems with this. However, persevering I now have achieved my initial goal.
1: single calendar accessible from owncloud (via web browser), iphone and ipad (both running IOS7).
2: single contact list accessible from owncloud (via web browser), iphone and ipad.
I managed to merge the contacts from all three devices and did a tidy up today. One additional tool acquired from the app store (Orbi tools) that allows copying contacts between address books at a cost of £0.69p - well invested, it did the merging of all the contacts in seconds.
The next jobs - to integrate address books off my imac, linux (my wife's PC) and her ipad. This hopefully will mean we both have one view of our diary and contacts. Then on to managing our music, photos and common files directorys as external storage (actually just subdirectorys in /home/storage/ on the B3.
Then ... owncloud on the Bubba2 to allow copying for backup (or maybe not just yet).
I had Owncloud running on the B3 for a while (see my earlier posts) but it didn't really achieve much and consequently due to lack of time and interest fell into an unusable state. Early this year I had a shot at upgrading to Owncloud 6 and that was a miserable failure.
This weekend I had some time to spare so decided to have a shot at Owncloud 7. This seemed altogether easier install according to the documentation I found. So, added the repo and issued a few commands waited a little while and then pointed the browser at the web address of the b3 and the tailoring wizard appeared. This ran cleanly and I had a user up all pretty quick. I guess no more than an hour. All jolly good!
Now, the reason for my interest is I'd had a shared (for the whole of the family) calendar on my original Owncloud that worked quite well and I wanted to get that going again plus share contact lists. In the meantime I'd got an iphone and ipad so I also wanted have a single calendar and contact list across both. What I noticed yesterday (Sunday) was that there seemed to be all sorts of problems with this. However, persevering I now have achieved my initial goal.
1: single calendar accessible from owncloud (via web browser), iphone and ipad (both running IOS7).
2: single contact list accessible from owncloud (via web browser), iphone and ipad.
I managed to merge the contacts from all three devices and did a tidy up today. One additional tool acquired from the app store (Orbi tools) that allows copying contacts between address books at a cost of £0.69p - well invested, it did the merging of all the contacts in seconds.
The next jobs - to integrate address books off my imac, linux (my wife's PC) and her ipad. This hopefully will mean we both have one view of our diary and contacts. Then on to managing our music, photos and common files directorys as external storage (actually just subdirectorys in /home/storage/ on the B3.
Then ... owncloud on the Bubba2 to allow copying for backup (or maybe not just yet).