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The fun of ordering via Bang Good, fair play the item was delivered but it took 8 weeks, in which time I had bought another phone. To say I was surprised when it turned up as the tracking never updated from processing so I thought I'd lost the £150 I'd paid.

If you're willing to use an unsecured intermediate why bother being secure at all?

i don't need it secured - it is a requirement of the calendar maker (a university)

I want my timetable on the same calendar as the rest of my life (ie, google calendar) but I'm struggling to integrate the two.

What can you export the calendar as? Do you have a server you can run a regular export script on, make it public via http or something and then get your googs to pick that up?

its a webcals url

I seen someone use yahoo pipes for something similar but that's not around any more. I don't have my own server, unfortunately.

Aha, fair enough.
Is the platform completely proprietary or is there a chance that someone else has worked on it? e.g. if it's Exchange/Outlook there's more of a chance of people knowing things.

LFGSS #buyer solution: buy a high-end server and pay a lot of money to keep it in a datacentre so you can run a tiny script and make your calendar-life a little easier.

Bro do u even cloud?
You could use AWS Lambda (serverless tech) then you only pay tiny amount per request (x mem x duraiton).

I bet there's an easier solution though.

How is it secured? Like, where are you entering this password? Is it to get onto the uni network or is it something specific to the calendar implementation?

Doesn't look like Google supports auth so an export->public might be your only solution:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/calendar/vjSZRkJHaWA

their email service is outlook/exchange but the calendar i'm accessing is different.

Their web portal is sharepoint based. Here are the instructions for adding the calendar to outlook

To subscribe to your timetable from Microsoft Outlook desktop version:

Open Internet Explorer
    Paste this URL into the address bar webcals://frontdoor.spa.gla.ac.uk/spacett/download/uogtimetable.ics
    This will start the wizard to link to the calendar
    When prompted, click the "Advanced..." button to enter your GUID and password
    Refresh no more than every 5 minutes

@hippy i'm hoping there is an easier way than that.

yeah, that's what I meant. I just don't know where to host it.

Library looks like it does a lot of calendar-related shit, will need server
http://sabre.io/vobject/
http://sabre.io/dav/ics-export-plugin/

tbh, this is at the very edge of my knowlege on this stuff

What's the cheapest I can have a server for and what are the odds of me adding that script (or whatever) to it without needing any maintenance. I'll only need this for a year.

Can you speak to whoever created the webcal to see if they can drop an export of your cal to a location they control?

How often does it change? Too often that a manual export isn't good enough?

doubtful - probably the work was done by an external contractor

It shouldn't change often at all but if there is a last minute class change, it'd be nice to know about it!

But tiny amount er request is not #buyer enough!
#whatwouldameydo?

@gillies if you talk to the person who is reponsible for updating it you might find they can 'publish' the calendar which would give an bespoke ical file you can import to google. It's how I get my uni calendar (provided through exchange) into google. That being said, sharepoint may be different, because microsoft.

Yeah, so even a manual sync ain't gonna be great unless you can get it running somewhere every 5min.

Having it published live is the best option. If it were me they'd already be sick of me asking and someone would be making it happen already :)

Either that or the Exchange admin is currently dangling by their feet from a tall building.

If icsdroid is still a thing, can't you just use icsdroid?

I.e. combine your calendars client side, not server side

hey, that works!

Well worth the £1.50.

Thanks very much @TW

icsdroid

So it does the auth, grabs the calendar and then smooshes it into google?

Is your uni calendar on your Outlook (application, not web version)? Do you have a Windows PC? This does a good job of syncing Outlook to your google calendar
https://phw198.github.io/OutlookGoogleCalendarSync/

yeah, didn't even have to set it up in google calendar - done automatically