Hi,
Frustration is imminent.
I have made a PowerShell script that logs into my gym's scheduling website, extracts the sessions I am attending, creating a ICS file and publishing it on one of my servers. This works fine. I can add the url to the ICS as a subscription on calendar.live.com and everything is smooth. The calendar is available in both WP and W8 calendar app.
The problem is that Microsoft and I strongly disagree how often a calender subscription should be updated. According to this article Import or subscribe to a calendar in Outlook.com - Microsoft Windows, a subscription is refreshed on a 24 to 48 hour basis. IMHO this should be hourly... I have also seen quite a lot of complaints that the refresh is very unreliable and some times do not work at all.
I have tried adding the calendar as a shared calendar in Google Calendar; its refresh time is a bit quicker, but the W8 app does not support it, and it is still not fast enough for me being satisifed (Google refreshes every 12-24 hours).
Any of you guys have a good way to get a calendar subscriptions on both W8 and WP quickly?
My thoughts:
- I can update the calendar with the script.
- I can send the calendar events as emails to myself, and manually add them to a calendar. I'd rather have it automatic.
Frustration is imminent.
I have made a PowerShell script that logs into my gym's scheduling website, extracts the sessions I am attending, creating a ICS file and publishing it on one of my servers. This works fine. I can add the url to the ICS as a subscription on calendar.live.com and everything is smooth. The calendar is available in both WP and W8 calendar app.
The problem is that Microsoft and I strongly disagree how often a calender subscription should be updated. According to this article Import or subscribe to a calendar in Outlook.com - Microsoft Windows, a subscription is refreshed on a 24 to 48 hour basis. IMHO this should be hourly... I have also seen quite a lot of complaints that the refresh is very unreliable and some times do not work at all.
I have tried adding the calendar as a shared calendar in Google Calendar; its refresh time is a bit quicker, but the W8 app does not support it, and it is still not fast enough for me being satisifed (Google refreshes every 12-24 hours).
Any of you guys have a good way to get a calendar subscriptions on both W8 and WP quickly?
My thoughts:
- I can update the calendar with the script.
- I can send the calendar events as emails to myself, and manually add them to a calendar. I'd rather have it automatic.