Google Calendar import not possible

[stardepp]

I would like to import Google Calendar in Vivaldi Calendar. But Google refuses, see screenshot:

Is there a possible solution for this?

[luetage]

@stardepp Try and enable access to insecure apps on your Google account. Should work.

[stardepp]

@luetage said in Google Calendar import not possible:

@stardepp Try and enable access to insecure apps on your Google account. Should work.

And where exactly can I find that in my Google account. I have searched there in vain.

[luetage]

@stardepp https://myaccount.google.com/security

[stardepp]

@luetage I have activated, but Google still blocks.

[luetage]

@stardepp Ahh, ok. I didn’t realize what you were trying to do, the word “import” led me off trail. You are trying to sync Google Calendar server with Vivaldi browser. See here, it’s even in German: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/54816/einrichten-von-google-kalender-nicht-möglich/

[stardepp]

I have exported my Google calendar as an iCalendar file. Can I import this into Vivaldi calendar?

[luetage]

@stardepp Yeah, I would import it to Vivaldi webmail server and use the Vivaldi calendar server to sync. I wrote a guide for this here: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/53617/sync-your-vivaldi-web-calendar-with-vivaldi-browser-and-android

[stardepp]

@luetage That worked out well. I successfully logged into OpenSync with my Vivaldi account. I have synchronized with my Vivaldi Calendar PC, but I still do not receive calendar data from Google Calendar.

[luetage]

@stardepp You gotta export your personal calendar events from google calendar and import them here: https://webmail.vivaldi.net. Only calendars present on the Vivaldi server will be synced. If you use those same calendars to input events in Google Calendar, they will show up on the Vivaldi server and on the calendar on Vivaldi browser.

[stardepp]

@luetage I am in the process of uploading the Google Calendar file, which is already taking half an hour, even though this file is only 850 kb in size.

[fred8615]

You can't import the whole calendar (yet), but you can import parts of it. Just this morning I added the N.O. Saints, AFL St. Kilda Saints, NASCAR, IndyCar, and IMSA schedules to Google Calendar, then added them from there to my Vivaldi Calendar in the browser.

What you do is go into the Google Calendar settings, and click on the individual schedule/calendar you want to import. Then scroll down until you see a section that says "Secret address in iCal format." Copy the URL there, then open File/Import Calendar in Vivaldi. Choose "Remote iCal," paste the URL, then click "Start Import."

The only one I couldn't import was the U.S. Holidays calendar, because it doesn't have a public or private iCal address. I had to find another source for that. But everything else imported fine.

[stardepp]

@fred8615 Thank you for your detailed answer. I was able to implement it successfully.

[luetage]

@fred8615 That doesn’t sync. Granted, I don’t know why it doesn’t, because you can import the events to a vivaldi.net calendar instance, so I’m unsure whether I’m running into a bug here, but to me it seems like that’s not workable. To make sure we are on the same page here, do these events show up on the Vivaldi Webmail site and Android for you after importing them? On Android they should probably be doubled now, since your calendar there also seems to be fed by the Google server.

[mib2berlin]

@luetage
I can import all events from Google but there is no syncing between Vivaldi and Google calendar. If I create a new event in one of them it is not shown in the other.
Not useable for me at moment.

Cheers, mib

[luetage]

@mib2berlin Situation is strange. When you try to change an imported event, it warns you that you are trying to change an external event and that changes will only be shown locally. But the changed event is actually the one that does sync. Sigh.

[fred8615]

@luetage I don't use Vivaldi Webmail at all, so I haven't set it up to work there. And while I have Vivaldi on my Fire 7 tablet, I haven't touched it in months, so I don't know about the Android angle.

All I was trying to do was get stuff in my Vivaldi browser Calendar. I had just found out how to put them in Outlook, but I still preferred to use the browser calendar if I could. Truth be told, I was ready to drop Vivaldi and switch to Edge and Outlook if I hadn't found this workaround. If the Saints win their playoff game this Sunday, I'll find out whether or not it updates.

[insok]

I have the same issue, I synced my google account in settings and the "Test" button says that everything is successfully synced. However, my google calendar events are just not synced. When I add an event in Vivaldi, it doesn't show up in my google calendar events. My google calendar events also don't show up in Vivaldi. I gave permission for Vivaldi to access my calendar. Very strange

[luetage]

@insok You gotta make sure to add events to a calendar that is part of google calendar server. If you add events to a local calendar they will not sync. But no idea what you did.

[insok]

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