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 the events keep themselves up to date.

There are two kinds of subscription:

Built-in holiday calendars: national holidays, religious holidays and observances for a country you choose.
Custom calendar feeds: any calendar published as an iCalendar (.ics) or webcal link, such as school term dates, a sports fixture list, or your council's bin collection schedule.

Calendar subscriptions are a OneHaus Pro feature.

Built-in holiday calendars

Pick a country and a category, and OneHaus adds those dates to your shared calendar:

National: public and bank holidays.
Religious: religious holidays for the country you choose.
Observances: wider observances and notable days.

You can subscribe to more than one. A household in the UK might add United Kingdom national holidays, while a household that marks several traditions can add the religious calendars that matter to them. Holiday data is sourced from a dedicated holiday provider and refreshed for you.

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 pulls 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, and flow to your devices through device calendar sync like any other OneHaus event.

Labelled by source: each event title carries the calendar it came from, for example "Christmas Day (United Kingdom National)", so it is clear at a glance where a date originated.
Read-only: imported events come from an outside source, so you cannot edit or delete them one by one. To stop them appearing, remove the subscription.
Kept fresh: built-in holiday calendars refresh weekly and custom feeds refresh every eight hours, so changes at the source flow through without you doing anything.
A rolling window: subscriptions keep roughly two months of past dates and the next six months ahead. Older events drop off on their own, so your calendar stays focused on what is coming up.

Adding and removing subscriptions

A household owner manages subscriptions for everyone, so the dates appear for the whole home at once.

On the web: open Calendar feeds from the menu, choose Add, then either pick a country and category for a holiday calendar or paste an .ics or webcal link for a custom feed.

On iPhone: open Settings, tap Calendar subscriptions, then add a holiday calendar or a custom feed.

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

Tips

Subscribe to the holidays your household actually marks, rather than every category, to keep the calendar tidy.
For a feed that changes often, such as fixtures, the eight-hour refresh keeps it current without any manual re-import.
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.