The school timetable, the team's matches and your work meetings often live in separate apps. Most of them can give you a calendar link. Paste the link into EpiHem, and the app fetches the calendar about once an hour and the whole household sees the events in the calendar's own colour, next to everything else you have planned.
This guide shows how to add a calendar, where the link usually is, and what is worth knowing once the calendar is in place.
How to add a calendar in EpiHem
- Open Calendar and tap the filter button at the top right, the one shaped like a funnel.
- Tap Add calendar and paste the link. It should start with https:// or webcal://.
- Tap Check link. EpiHem recognises where the link comes from and shows how many events it found and the dates they cover.
- Give the calendar a name and a colour, and choose whose calendar it is. To hear about changes, switch on Tell me about changes.
- Tap Save.
On the web, click Calendars above the calendar and choose Add calendar. The rest works the same way.
EpiHem takes it from there. The calendar is fetched about once an hour, and everyone in the household sees the events in the colour you chose, marked with the calendar's name.
Where do I find the link?
Most school, club and calendar services can give you a calendar link, for example SchoolSoft, Vklass, Unikum, laget.se, Svenskalag, Google Calendar, Outlook and iCloud. The link may also be called a subscription link, an iCal link, an ICS link or a webcal link. They are the same thing.
Where it usually is
Look in the service's calendar or schedule view, or under your profile or settings. Look for words like Subscribe, Export, Share, Publish, iCal, ICS or webcal. The link is often easier to find on the web on a computer than in the service's app.
What the link looks like
A calendar link starts with https:// or webcal:// and often ends in .ics. Copy the whole link and paste it into EpiHem. If EpiHem finds no calendar when you tap Check link, you have often copied the address of the web page rather than the calendar link itself.
If you cannot find it
The school or club may not have turned calendar subscriptions on. Ask them, or search the service's help pages for "subscribe to calendar".
Treat the link like a password
A calendar link can be personal, to you or to the team. Anyone who has a secret address can see everything in the calendar, so do not post it publicly, for example in a group chat or on social media.
Good to know
- The events cannot be edited in EpiHem. They come from the source. To plan around one of them, choose Add to our calendar. It then becomes an ordinary event in the household calendar, where you can choose who goes, add a reminder and set tags.
- Tell me about changes applies to you and to that one calendar. You get a push notification when something in the next 48 hours is cancelled or moved. Everyone in the household chooses for themselves.
- With the filter button in the calendar, or Calendars on the web, you can show or hide each calendar.
- Update now fetches the calendar straight away instead of waiting for the next time. If a link has stopped working, replace it with Change link.
- Calendar links are free for every household, and you can have up to ten calendars.
Have a file instead?
If you have been sent an .ics file, or exported a calendar from Google, Apple or Outlook, you read it in once with Import file under Manage calendars. The events become ordinary events in the household calendar, and you can edit them like any other. Importing the same file again creates no duplicates. Events from today onward are included, and if you want older ones too, you choose that before you import.
A file does not update itself. If the calendar changes often, like a timetable or a match schedule, a link is the better choice.
There is more about the calendar in EpiHem on the feature page, and the guide to the all-in-one household app shows how the calendar fits together with lists, meals and receipts.
