Beginner making a calendar - HELP wanted!

[RemcoT]

Hi!

I've encoutered the problem all my life: forgetting your appointments, not making deadlines.. As a result I bought a calendar and started writing my appointments down again (in stead of making them in my phone) for I keep forgetting to look on my phone and I don't like the notifications..

Well, enough said and here it is why I'm hoping for some help of you guys. I've worked with the Raspberry Pi a while back for a college project, but don't own one for myself.

I'm planning on buying a model B and a 10 inch screen and the goal is to have my Google Calendar displayed on the screen. For now, that's it but in the future I would like to transform it in normal screen with temperature indoors and weatherforecast as well displayed. To me it's usefull and no do not want to buy a tablet for these things.

Problem I'm facing: Is this even possible?! Can I have my Google Calendar displayed as kind of an app so that if I make an appointment in my phone it synchronizes and then displays on my homebuild calendar? Anyone an idea on where to go from here (except for buying and connecting, that part I can manage).

Help would be greatly appreciated!

Regards,
Remco

[sdjf]

I think you can get your Raspberry Pi to do all kinds of things, but whether you can do them all with Google calendar or need to also install some other software for the other stuff, I do not know. I have never used Google Calendar, but I think the question in my mind, that someone who is familiar with Google Calendar and the browsers in the primary Pi distributions (I use ARch, so my choices are different), the question is if the default browser, when open to google calendar, will automatically update. Somebody should know the answer to that question.

For your other questions, the weather one, I googled for "google-calendar temperature" and the very first hit was their instruction page for that. For Weather on google calendar, the following page discusses that:

https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/48494?hl=en

I have no clue how memory intense the features are for Google Calendar, that might be the only issue, or if it requires Flash, which I don't think we have on the Pi.

You also mention a "homemade calendar", is that something different that you also want to use as well?

[rpdom]

I think what you need to search for is "google calendar api". That will give you examples of how to link your own programs into your google calendar. If you want to write your programs in a specific language (say Python, for example), add that to the search "google calendar python api".

[RemcoT]

I think what you need to search for is "google calendar api". That will give you examples of how to link your own programs into your google calendar. If you want to write your programs in a specific language (say Python, for example), add that to the search "google calendar python api".

Well thanks for the respond! But I do not want the whole calendar and all of it's functions. I just want it displayed, read-only. I thought about api, but this way you will get the entire app and all of it's functions. And that isn't my intention.. Perhaps I should install a browser on the Pi and leave the internetpage with the calendar open for eternity.. Not really a fancy solution though..

[RemcoT]

I think you can get your Raspberry Pi to do all kinds of things, but whether you can do them all with Google calendar or need to also install some other software for the other stuff, I do not know. I have never used Google Calendar, but I think the question in my mind, that someone who is familiar with Google Calendar and the browsers in the primary Pi distributions (I use ARch, so my choices are different), the question is if the default browser, when open to google calendar, will automatically update. Somebody should know the answer to that question.

For your other questions, the weather one, I googled for "google-calendar temperature" and the very first hit was their instruction page for that. For Weather on google calendar, the following page discusses that:

https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/48494?hl=en

I have no clue how memory intense the features are for Google Calendar, that might be the only issue, or if it requires Flash, which I don't think we have on the Pi.

You also mention a "homemade calendar", is that something different that you also want to use as well?

The calendar updates automatically, even if the browser is opened. So no need for F5, so I think I could use a browser for this but it isn't really fancy.. And the other questions are for an other moment, for now just trying to figure out how to get some sort of an application with Google Calender running on my Pi. And no, the homemade calendar is just the raspberry pi+scree, running the Google Calendar.

[ghans]

http://www.instructables.com/id/Raspber ... -Calendar/
http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewt ... 41&t=81684

ghans