What exactly CalDAV used in iPhone
We are working with iPhone Tasks and Siri to get them to work together and was instructed to create an account in iPhone CalDAV. Prior to doing it we search what it is but still can't identify exactly. Wiki says "Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV, or CalDAV, is an Internet standard allowing a client to access scheduling information on a remote server". Since we are instructed to create it in our iPhone and add emails info, we wanted to know, besides what Wiki says it is, if its a an actual server location where our data being transmitted with Siri commands sent over to it. Please advice.
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The instruction we received is requesting to create an email within iPhone mail and,
[indent]- Select "Add Account..."
- Select Other (at the bottom)
- Select "Add CalDAV Account"
- Select Enter the following:
- Server: siri.todo-cloud.com
- User Name: [your username (email address)]
- Password: [your password]
- Description: Todo Cloud[/indent]
In line SERVER, it has "siri.todo-cloud.com"; the reason for the question.
Is this ok?
[indent]- Select "Add Account..."
- Select Other (at the bottom)
- Select "Add CalDAV Account"
- Select Enter the following:
- Server: siri.todo-cloud.com
- User Name: [your username (email address)]
- Password: [your password]
- Description: Todo Cloud[/indent]
In line SERVER, it has "siri.todo-cloud.com"; the reason for the question.
Is this ok?
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In our case, if we setup CalDAV with ww.todo-cloud.com, all our calendar info entered in our iPhone will travel to/from from that todo-cloud.com?
Yes.
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Would be more comfortable with an apple server since they already have all our iPhone/iPad info + the additional security they provide; is there an apple CalDAV we can use?
You can upgrade ANY apple computer iMac, MacMini, MacBook to the OSX Server version (costs 15$ on the Apple App Store) with CalDAV server and use that if you want.
Apple iCloud service also includes CalDAV server of course.
Apple iCloud service also includes CalDAV server of course.
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We only have iPhone and iPad no apple desktop or notebooks; if iCloud includes one, what is the server name? Thanx.
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In our iPhone setup the mail is clicked ON (see pix below)
Do you mean unclick the Mail option?
Do you mean unclick the Mail option?
If you don't want to use the iCloud mail account .. you can turn it off .. Its up to you and completely optional and has no real effect on the Reminders/Calendars etc.
Leave iCloud Mail enabled for the moment .. as it does no harm
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So as to understand, at this moment, and as you have seen our setup at top, our iphones/ipads are currently using CALDAV server in iCloud?
Yes, correct 100% .. you're using a CalDAV server provided by Apple iCloud
Where is your email hosted? If Google for example then I would just use their CalDav server so you will have the email and the calendar in one place instead of having your email in x.com and CalDav in y.com.
Siri doesn't care where you have this setup as long as you do have it configured.
Siri doesn't care where you have this setup as long as you do have it configured.
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Our iPhone has over 15 emails setup in them; from iCloud, Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, etc. to other non-main stream emails services.
Since we are working to get iPhone Tasks and Siri to work together, and the main account used in the iPhone is an Hotmail, should we use a Hotmail CalDav server?
FYI:
in the iPhone Settings >> Apple ID (here we use a hotmail account as our apple ID, not an apple icloud email - (if that makes any sense).
Since we are working to get iPhone Tasks and Siri to work together, and the main account used in the iPhone is an Hotmail, should we use a Hotmail CalDav server?
FYI:
in the iPhone Settings >> Apple ID (here we use a hotmail account as our apple ID, not an apple icloud email - (if that makes any sense).
iPhone will connect to Hotmail via ActiveSync. You won't need to setup CalDav.
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ActiveSync? Where is that in our iphone?
When you set up your email to connect to Exchange or Outlook it will uses Activesync
https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/9274/2171/how-to-configure-activesync-exchange-account-on-iphone
You are not required to setup CalDav and CarDav separately.
https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/9274/2171/how-to-configure-activesync-exchange-account-on-iphone
You are not required to setup CalDav and CarDav separately.
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The link is for exchange. We don't use exchange, just Ms Outlook 2010 installed in our PCs.
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That is the way it's setup. So as for the CalDAV server we don't have to do anything in the Hotmail setup, it's automatic?
As mentioned above if you are connecting to hotmail/outlook or exchange then you will be using ActiveSync. You wouldn't need to set up caldav
That's correct, with hotmail you don't need to set up caldav
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You keep mentioning activesync and it's confusing. We have searched for setting up activesync in our iPhone and all links are related to Exchange and we don't use this server. So we will assume that we don't need to set it up; or any other Caldav server as per our discusión.
Thank you for your support.
Thank you for your support.
You either use caldav with IMAP OR ActiveSync with Microsoft productss. Microsoft uses ActiveSync not caldav. And my links showed how to set it up in exact step by step details on how to set it up for hotmail.
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Thank you very much.
Glad to help, cheers!
However, if you're connecting to a mail server that uses IMAP (say GMAIL for example) then this is only for email. Calendar info need a separate configuration (CalDAV) to sync with your Google calendar.