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In all the articles and reviews about Ubuntu Phone, I have been missing one crucial information: What protocols are supported to synchronise your contacts and calendars with your device? CalDav/GroupDav? ActiveSync? Gmail?

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It is possible to sync your Official Aquaris Ubuntu Edition with e.g. Owncloud using CardDAV. This is what I did (see wiki.ubuntuusers.de for source):

  1. First I added the certificate of my site to the folder /usr/share/ca-certificates and updates the ca-cert database, since it is self-signed:

    sudo mount /dev/loop0 / -o remount,rw
sudo cp /home/phablet/Downloads/server.crt /usr/share/ca-certificates

    Add a star to the new certificate while running the configuration

    sudo dpkg-reconfigure ca-certificates

  2. Add the syncevolution configuration:

    syncevolution --keyring=no --configure --template webdav username=<USERNAME> password=<PASSWORD> syncurl="in-its.de/owncloud" target-config@owncloud
syncevolution --configure --template SyncEvolution_Client sync=none syncURL=local://@owncloud username= password= peerIsClient=1 owncloud
syncevolution --configure database=https://<SERVER>/owncloud/remote.php/carddav/addressbooks/<USERNAME>/contacts backend=carddav target-config@owncloud contacts
syncevolution --configure sync=two-way backend=contacts database="Persönlich" owncloud contacts

  3. Run sync:

    syncevolution --sync slow owncloud contacts

That made all my Owncloud contacts available on my Ubuntu Phone.

And CalDAV works similar:

syncevolution --configure database=https://<SERVER>/owncloud/remote.php/caldav/calendars/<USERNAME>/personal backend=caldav target-config@owncloud calendar
syncevolution --configure sync=two-way backend=events database="Persönlich" owncloud calendar

And then sync it:

syncevolution --sync slow owncloud calendar

So CalDAV and CardDAV are working!

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  • So you have to manually run those commands from time to time?
    – mat
    Mar 31, 2015 at 9:50
  • I guess you could add the script to your cron (e.g. /etc/cron.hourly), but I didn't try it.
    – Tim
    Apr 2, 2015 at 7:48
  • @user1039462 The only command you need to run is syncevolution --sync owncloud calendar. The other commands are for configuration & once the configuration was done, it is saved in the system.
    – Khurshid Alam
    Apr 10, 2015 at 8:27
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I finally managed to connect to my phone by updating the repositories with

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:phablet-team/tools && sudo apt-get update

But no after setting everything up I get an error when running the sync

[ERROR @baikal] transport problem: PROPFIND: Neon error code 1, no HTTP status: Server certificate verification failed: certificate issued for a different hostname, issuer is not trusted

So I guess I need some kind of certificate for my baikal server. Any idea how to fix this?

I installed owncloud on my NAS! Now everything works! Thanks for the instructions! But is the phone now keeping the contacts synced?

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Not true at the moment...only can sync contacts and calendar from google. There is no way to setup other CalDav/CardDav or ActiveSync accounts via the Settings in Ubuntu Touch. If your online info doesn't reside with google services then your out of luck.

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