Calendar Subscriptions

Calendar subscriptions bring outside dates into your shared OneHaus calendar automatically. Instead of typing in every public holiday or copying your child's term dates by hand, you subscribe once and OneHaus keeps the dates current.

There are two kinds of subscription:

Built-in holiday calendars: public holidays, religious holidays and observances for a country you choose.
Custom calendar feeds: any calendar published as an iCalendar (.ics) or webcal link.

Calendar subscriptions are part of OneHaus Pro. Every new household starts with a free 30 day trial.

Built-in holiday calendars

Pick one of 63 countries and a category, and OneHaus adds those dates to your shared calendar. Categories include Public holidays, Bank holidays, Optional holidays, Local holidays, Observances, Seasonal, Clock changes and UN observances, plus religious calendars: Christian, Orthodox, Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist. Not every category exists for every country.

You can subscribe to more than one. A household in the UK might add United Kingdom Public holidays, while a household that marks several traditions can add the religious calendars that matter to them.

Custom calendar feeds

If a calendar is published as an .ics or webcal link, you can add it. Common examples:

School and nursery term dates
A team's fixture list or a league schedule
Council bin and recycling collection dates
A club, class or community calendar

Paste the link, give it a name, and OneHaus checks it there and then before pulling in the events. Each household can add up to five custom feeds.

How imported events behave

Imported events sit in your shared calendar alongside everything else. If you have device calendar sync switched on, they are copied out to your phone's calendar with your other household events.

Each event title carries the calendar it came from, for example "Christmas Day United Kingdom Public holidays", so you can see at once where a date originated. You cannot edit or delete an imported event on its own: to stop them appearing, remove the subscription.

Built-in holiday calendars refresh weekly and custom feeds every eight hours. Subscriptions hold roughly two months of past dates and the next six months ahead, and older events drop off on their own.

Adding and removing subscriptions

A household owner manages subscriptions for everyone, so the dates appear for the whole home at once. Everyone else can see the imported dates but cannot add or remove a feed.

Open Browse, choose Calendar Feeds, then Add calendar. Pick a country and category for a holiday calendar, or paste an .ics or webcal link for a custom feed.

You can also get there from Settings, Sync calendar, then the Subscribe to a calendar feed card.

To remove a subscription, open the same screen and delete it. That removes its events from your shared calendar.

Tips

Subscribe only to the categories your household actually marks. Adding every category for a country buries the dates you care about.
A fixtures feed can change week to week. The eight hour refresh picks that up on its own.
Pair holiday calendars with recurring events for the dates only your household keeps, like birthdays and anniversaries.

Troubleshooting

A custom feed is not importing: check the link opens as an .ics download or a webcal calendar in a browser. Private links that need a login cannot be read.
An imported event has no edit option: that is expected. Imported events are read-only; change them at the source, or remove the subscription.
Holidays look wrong for my country: make sure you subscribed to the right country and category. You can add more than one.