Nasir's Blog

Thunderbird, Lightning and Provider for Google Calendar is a great way to manage your GMail and Google Calendar. But there is one thing that is missing for me, my favorite feature in Google Calendar, SMS notifications. The Provider for Google Calendar add-on, unfortunately don’t support that.

While lacking any desire to write a new add-on just for that, I really want SMS reminders instead of the supported pop-up reminders. Is there a way to change/replace that easily? The answer is “Yes, of course”.

Reading the Google Calendar Data API, which is necessarily to understand how this is to be done is enough. The steps are actually very easy. Download Provider for Google Calendar. Unzip it, yes it is just a zip file. Replace the word “alert” to “sms” twice in a Javascript file named “calGoogleUtils.js” at line number 508 and 861. Compress it. Install this custom add-on in Thunderbird and you are ready to go.

You can also download the one I’m using right here.

The versions which a I use now are:
Thunderbird version 2.0.0.17 (20080914)
Lightning version 0.9
Provider for Google Calendar version 0.5.1