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martin-riedl / CALexa

CALexa is an Amazon Alexa Skill which allows accessing CalDAV Calendars. It makes use of the Flask-Ask Python micro-framework developed by John Wheeler.
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Issues with understanding how to set it up #4

Open k0nze opened 6 years ago

k0nze commented 6 years ago

Hi there,

thanks for making it possible to use Alexa with a CalDAV calendar. I run an ownCloud server which has an integrated CalDAV server. By reading the README.md I couldn't figure out where CALexa has to be installed. Is it possible to run it on a server in your local network? Does it have to run on the same server as the CalDAV server runs?

Best regards,

Konze

Phil-Rei commented 6 years ago

Hi, in conf\config.json you define the URL to your CalDAV server. So in this case calexa can run on the same server or also on a different server (raspberry for example, if you can't install calexa on the same server). As long as you can access the URL of your CalDAV Server from the Calexa Server everything should be fine. This means both server don't even have to be in the same network.

The setup of Calexa is really difficult and if you already stuck in understanding questions like this I think you won't get very far with your setup. I've also tried (see my other post) and got stuck at the very end and I'm not sure if this code is compatible with alexa any more.