Contact scopes incompatible with CardDav?

schweizer

As I wrote here contact scopes do not work for me. I sync my contacts with CardDAV. That works fine both ways: I can modify contacts locally and they get uploaded. Family members create or modify contacts and they get downloaded. Thus I think my chain Synology Calendar - DAVx5 works fine.

What does not work persistently is contact scopes. I can add contact to the list. But over time they disappear and I get a message "missing item, ID <three digit number>". It is as if contact scopes would just renumber the contacts when the address book changes.

Can you reproduce this behaviour? Does it also happen when you have a local address book?

schweizer

Is there really nobody who uses contact scopes and could tell if the behaviour is reproducible?

I made some research. My contacts do have an UID field that is populated. I even see if the contact originates from the server or from DAVx5 because the server puts the url first. What makes me suspicious is that GrapheneOS uses three digit ID numbers. That does not sound like a good plan.

SoundOfSilence

schweizer I ran into the same issue with DAVx5 and contact scopes.

andrej567

It never happened to me. I am using it for 3 years almost.

What I do. I have contacts in nextcloud. I am using groups in nextcloud, the groups are synced to cellphone and i am using the groups in contact scopes then. In whatsapp, signal, etc. I have no contact scope related settings for dav5x itself. There i have allow all contacts to be accessed.

SoundOfSilence

andrej567

Interesting. Using groups rather than selecting each contact separately is probably the workaround. I'm going to try that, thanks!

SoundOfSilence

andrej567

How exactly do you sync the groups and how have you defined the contact scopes? By label?

andrej567

SoundOfSilence

group in nextcloud is label in cellphone contacts.

The only setting in dav5x, in account (nextcloud account defined in dav5x app),
there is under carddav settings (bottom)
Contact group method - I have selected "groups are per-contact categories"

SoundOfSilence

andrej567

Thanks, that's helpful! Unfortunately, my mail provider doesn't support group syncing, but I can still set them up locally on my device.

andrej567

SoundOfSilence
i am using the https://thegood.cloud/ nextcloud..
i have only contacts there and calendar. it is for free and works reliably