Owncloud / yunohost

[Lazybones]

After Tom mentioned it I though i should open a post on it... Some nice call in one web administered solutions that can work on a small business or personal level.


http://yunohost.org/

http://owncloud.org/

[Mr. Analog]

This is perfect timing actually I have a friend who is trying to start her own web comic and wants to do it with her own site rather than using tumblr or wordpress.

[Tom]

I pretty much wanted to use owncloud for sharing pictures and whatnot. Maybe some files... But the image gallery in the current stable version is a load of suck.

[Thorin]

Where does it show that it can be used as a website?  All I see is features that let you store info in a cloud that is (supposedly) locked down to only you.

[Mr. Analog]

En Fran?ais:
http://wiki.yunohost.org/Installer_un_site_web

[Tom]

Where does it show that it can be used as a website?  All I see is features that let you store info in a cloud that is (supposedly) locked down to only you.

With Owncloud you can make things shared, share items with other people using the same instance, or give out public links to items.

That's all well and good, but its photo gallery app... fairly unusable imo. It doesn't seem to have a proper concept of separate galleries (groups of pictures) and the mobile app really didn't work all that well.

Speaking of the mobile app, they don't seem to intend to support android's account data as a built in feature.. Instead you have to find other apps to sync your calendar, todo, and other data with it. It's like what's the point Basically all the app is good for is syncing files. Which I suppose is ok, but its not a feature I care about too much.

[Thorin]

I ended up clicking the Developer tab on owncloud.org, which made me learn about the kanban board product called huboard.com (similar to Pivotal Tracker), which made me learn about github commit push commands.

Fun!

[Lazybones]

The calendars are consumable via Caldav, which should be natively supported by the android calendar app.


It also uses carddav for the address book.

And WebDAV if you wanted to mount the file stores remotely ...

[Tom]

The calendars are consumable via Caldav, which should be natively supported by the android calendar app.


It also uses carddav for the address book.

And WebDAV if you wanted to mount the file stores remotely ...

I'd rather sync all my existing stuff up to it. And not have to have a special app for each and every different type of data I want to sync.

Also did I mention the photo sharing stuff needs work?




I'll probably try it out again later. it seems its a bit rough around the edges atm.

[Lazybones]

I didn't realize the native google android calendar and contacts apps don't support these common formats , funny because google them selves have just expires active sync support.

Guess your only option is a google account or a 3rd party app?

iOS devices support Activesync , IMAP and Caldav for calendars
And carddav and Activesync for contacts.

[Tom]

I didn't realize the native google android calendar and contacts apps don't support these common formats , funny because google them selves have just expires active sync support.

I honestly haven't checked to see what they support. I'd bet though that they are pure google though.

Guess your only option is a google account or a 3rd party app?

iOS devices support Activesync , IMAP and Caldav for calendars
And carddav and Activesync for contacts.

My main interest in my owncloud was to have a nice photo album thing and some file sharing. And secondarily maybe sync my contacts and calendars, but none of that really works all that well for me at this point in time. which kinda sucks.

[Darren Dirt]

The calendars are consumable via Caldav, which should be natively supported by the android calendar app.


It also uses carddav for the address book.

And WebDAV if you wanted to mount the file stores remotely ...

idk why, but I see the above post, realize that any of sharing the above with our SO = eyerolling guaranteed #GreekToMe

[Tom]

The calendars are consumable via Caldav, which should be natively supported by the android calendar app.


It also uses carddav for the address book.

And WebDAV if you wanted to mount the file stores remotely ...

idk why, but I see the above post, realize that any of sharing the above with our SO = eyerolling guaranteed #GreekToMe

Or they can just see the shared calendars and other stuff on the web interface

[Mr. Analog]

The calendars are consumable via Caldav, which should be natively supported by the android calendar app.


It also uses carddav for the address book.

And WebDAV if you wanted to mount the file stores remotely ...

idk why, but I see the above post, realize that any of sharing the above with our SO = eyerolling guaranteed #GreekToMe

Because of the product names sound unfamiliar?

[Lazybones]

Well I have SSL and my own domain setup now... Been playing around with OwnCloud...

Thoughts so far

Dropbox replacement
- iOS app doesn't support full Photo Sync, you can multi-select uploads but it is a very manual process.. The recent upload all option in Dropbox is much nicer.
- It is possible to mount a bunch of external storage (SFT/SFTP/SMB etc) into your account... I have a SMB share on my nas mounts now... SO essentially I have unlimited external encrypted access to my home files now. You can also use this feature to consolidate access to dropbox and other services but I think their clients are better.

Contacts
- Contacts app is rather basic on the web UI side

Bookmarks
- Webui can import google bookmark exports but the UI kind of sucks... it does however support a bookmark-let for making new bookmarks easy.
- Alternatively if you have the XMarks plugin in your browser you can use OwnCloud as a WebDav store and host your own files... Thus going away from having a 3rd party do it.

Just some initial thoughts...

If you want to play with it I can set you up an account.. I don't guarantee up-time at the moment.

Bonus, they appear to be trying to complete their personal RSS module before the big google reader cut off.