Single User - multiple devices - is this possible?

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Octimius

Single User - multiple devices - is this possible?

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I want to self host - ideal scenario below

Database will be held on my homelab server (2012R2), and from there, via the Internet, I can sync with my Android phone, my iPad, my laptop, or my PC at the office, on any of those devices, wherever I am (so long as my server is available of course). I will be the only user - not multiple users.

Can I install on each and every device, then sync to my server in this way - which version do I need?

Or not what this software is designed to do?
Octimius

Re: Single User - multiple devices - is this possible?

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Looking to buy - so an early reply is welcome :-)
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Re: Single User - multiple devices - is this possible?

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You could probably do that through setting up ownCloud/nextCloud on your server.

You'd host your own nextCloud and than you'd sync EPIM to it and use it as part of a sync ecosystem. (eg: There isn't an iPad version of EPIM so you'd have to use another client there.)

The answer to the last questions is "Not really". Overall universal syncing is not a major aspect of EPIM. EPIM is realistically a local database management program, that has limited syncing abilities.
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Re: Single User - multiple devices - is this possible?

Post by Josealdo94 »

Yes it's definitely possible to use multiple devices as a single user.
Octimius

Re: Single User - multiple devices - is this possible?

Post by Octimius »

So, I can do as suggested above? Install a network server version, then install EPIM onto several devices (laptop, PC, Android) which would all look to the database on the server for sync purposes?
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Re: Single User - multiple devices - is this possible?

Post by horst »

Octimius wrote: Mon Mar 20, 2017 1:43 pm So, I can do as suggested above? Install a network server version, then install EPIM onto several devices (laptop, PC, Android) which would all look to the database on the server for sync purposes?
In short, NO
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Re: Single User - multiple devices - is this possible?

Post by Octimius »

Right. Thank you. I will need to look for an alternative.
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Re: Single User - multiple devices - is this possible?

Post by Wolfenduggo »

Many other programs allow single user on multiple devices as long as they aren't all running. It should be a bit easier to do this I would imagine, but it's not always the case.
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