Webcal.fi - holidays online calendar switched to paid mode

[Charles_Darwin]

Just to warn you guys…webcal.fi, a free online calendar service, switched to paid mode. If your phone systems are controlled by this online calendar, you have to use ownCloud/nextCloud solutions instead.

The owner of webcal.fi started to create random events (containing the info of the new service) in all active calendars, which gives you a weird behavior of your phone systems.
e.g. if you used the holiday calendar to switch your phone system into the we-are-closed mode…you will be closed every few days in the future

Here is the old thread:

Free remote holiday calendars for many countries - how to use in calendar module

There is a website in Finland which offers free online holiday calendars for many countries. This is very useful especially for European countries, where the time group module cannot calculate certain holidays. goto choose your country on the left, adjust the calendar settings and click on the download link. Copy the downloadlink, remove ‘webcal:’ at the beginning and replace it with http:// For the Austrian holiday calendar it looks like this [Austria] These online calendars autoupdate e…

And here is the solution:

OwnCloud Calendar and freePBX

In case somebody wants to create ONE calendar (e.g. holidays, many moving holidays in Austria) and use it on several freePBX servers, here’s a short description. OwnCloud is open source and has a calendar app. Some domain providers (like all-inkl.com in Germany) provide ownCloud ready-to-use software packages. You can also ssh in and install it manually. Once installed at your domain, you share your calendar (public, read-only). see https://owncloud.com/de/news/caldav-calendar-public-sharing/ …