I have VA3M and I use Android phone. I am able to see my phone's calendar entries to my watch. However my primary calendar is my laptop's MS Outlook application's calendar. How can I connect my PC's outlook calendar with Gramin VA3M? I want to see my daily work schedule to my watch.
This seems not having auto sync feature. Its annoying to mannually sync. Instead, I am finding a solution to sync my PC outlook app's calendar with my phone's google calendar that does two way auto sync. It will be easier. If anyone knows how to do it then let me know.
I found that the easiest way is to Sync your Outlook calendar with Google calendar and use the Garmin native Calendar widget. The Garmin calendar widget will connect to the google calendar app on your (Android) phone. In Outlook online, you can share your calendar, This will generate an URL which you can then import into your Google Calendar (online). Your outlook calendar will now be displayed in your google calendar. Only issue, Google only sync the calendar once or twice a day !!! so good for read-only and long plan calendar but not real time! Search the (VA3) forum, there are a few threads on outlook Calendar with Garmin.
I found that the easiest way is to Sync your Outlook calendar with Google calendar and use the Garmin native Calendar widget. The Garmin calendar widget will connect to the google calendar app on your (Android) phone. In Outlook online, you can share your calendar, This will generate an URL which you can then import into your Google Calendar (online). Your outlook calendar will now be displayed in your google calendar. Only issue, Google only sync the calendar once or twice a day !!! so good for read-only and long plan calendar but not real time! Search the (VA3) forum, there are a few threads on outlook Calendar with Garmin.
I agree and that is what I was finding. I found a better solution. Check this link - https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-sync-microsoft-outlook-with-google-calendar/ I used the second app called - Outlook Google Calendar Sync (Free), It works like a champ and now I can see all of my upcoming calendar entries to native calendar widget.
If you import the outlook calendar into the Google calendar (via the Outlook shared calendar URL), there is no need for apps in between. The only limitation is that Google only sync non-google calendar at a frequency of once or twice a day. Works perfectly fine for me (not realtime). Once done online, your outlook calendar will show in your phone google calendar app (you may need to enable it to display in your list of calendars). and that's it, works like a charm. (I only use outlook so the google calendar is only for displaying on the watch, no other use for me!)
I was referring outlook as outlook pc app not outlook online. I guess i cant connect connect pc app using a URL
If you are using a Microsoft Account for your email/calendar (email like [email][email protected][/email] / @hotmail.com etc) the Outlook Desktop PC app will get its data (email, calendar, tasks etc) from the online outlook cloud. The Outlook desktop PC app is simply a "client" app with let you access the same data as the online version. The Outlook desktop PC app also has some more advanced features but still uses the exact same data source as the online version (cloud). Therefore, if you log into your MSFT account online, you can share your calendar in the exact same way (with an URL) to feed a Google calendar automatically. Use the share calendar option in outlook online and Import calendar in Google calendar online. Then the two calendars will sync, independently of the fact that you use the Outlook Desktop app or mobile app or not etc.
The Sync is done at the cloud level, the apps access and display the data only.
