[kwlug-disc] Nextcloud, ownCloud, ...etc

[Ron]

CrankyOldBugger wrote on 2025-10-27 05:35:

> For example, the phone (Android) client has failed to connect for
> some time now.  I'm following a fairly active discussion online
> where quite a number of other people are having the same problem
> (the Nextcloud client says "no internet connection available" or
> something like that).

There was an issue between Nextcloud and Google regarding permissions
allowed in the Play Store version of the app.

I believe it was resolved fairly recently in Nextcloud's favour, but
they were struggling for some time due to Android blocking them in some way.

Have you got a recent update, or installed from fDroid?

> Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud 
> app for Android? So are we. Let us explain.

https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-android-file-upload-issue-google/

UPDATE:

> Good news. This morning, May 15, Google reached out to us and
> offered to restore the permission, which will give our users back
> the functionality that was lost.

Not sure if it's related to your issue.


> The main dashboard on the web app is very slow to update.  Many
> calendar appointments get completely missed as the calendar module
> just doesn't read my google calendar consistently.

I wonder if adding a cron job to do something like:

php /path/to/nextcloud/occ dav:sync-calendar-subscriptions

on a more frequent basis would help?


I do recall running some `occ` command to update calendars (stored in
Nextcloud) that get subscribed to by my WordPress site.


Damned if I can remember what it was though.

Maybe something like:

occ config:system:set ...


Ah, Claude Haiku 3.5 to the rescue after a few attempts to narrow it down:

php occ config:app:set dav calendarSubscriptionRefreshRate --value "P1D"


Claude Haiku 3.5

P1D is a standard time duration format from the ISO 8601 duration
specification:
ISO 8601 Duration Notation

     P stands for "Period"
     1 is the quantity
     D stands for "Day"

So P1D literally means "1 Day"


Maybe try 5 minutes:

php occ config:app:set dav calendarSubscriptionRefreshRate --value "PT5M"