Hi everyone
I’m trying to degoogle as much as possible. I’ve heard about this thing called calDAV and cardDAV but I have no idea how to use it.
With radicale, do I need to install some other somewhere in order to use it?
I’m just looking for basic useage for myself only at this stage. I’d like to be able to self host my own calendar and contacts. Is radicale appropriate for this?
Is it safe to self host a calendar?
Can a self hosted calendar still send and receive invites to other calendars?
Any help greatly appreciated, thank you
My experience with radicale
https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=services%3Aradicale
I currently use it, from android with dav5x (F-droid)
This is your wiki? I’ve been there before. Turned up in a search.
Yes it is, written by me by hand 100%…
Zero AI too… Just old grumpy bashing
Well, thank you for making it public. IIRC, it did help me in a couple things so again, thank you.
Zero AI too
I think you will start to see the ‘Zero AI’ label starting to pop up on personal blogs and wikis.
Ahahah I like the “zero AI” logo idea, maybe will use AI to create one… :)
Yes I am that bad with graphics
Anyway check the main page of the wiki I explain why I did it.
Thanks! Tomorrow will see to upload to my wiki…
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Might want to crop it a bit. Go nuts!
Thanks for the link
I see it doesn’t have a dashboard, would I be better off with something like Baikal?
I’m quite basic and only really selfhost cause I don’t like big tech, not cause I’m a linux wizz
It’s how you can copy/backup/sync calendar and contacts.
on my phone I installed davx5 which does the copying over to my radicale instance on my server. Then my server backs up my calendar and contacts.
When I get a new phone I can sync all of it over easily. Bonus points, google doesn’t have that data.
Is it hard to set up? Sound perfect for what I want, just also seems complicated for my skills haha
I’ve recently set up Baikal on a cheap shared host. It doesn’t even need a dedicated database, it just creates a file-based sqlite db. i’ve just copied some files to a php webhost and followed the quickstart guide for setup, i’m pretty happy with the result
I found Radicale easy to install and set up. Unfortunately, using it with an Android phone means Davx5 - there really doesn’t seem to be a viable alternative. And I couldn’t get Davx5 to work after days of effort, so I gave up on the idea of self-hosting contacts and calendar at all. <shame>
Follow up questions:
I seed to have created multiple users, how can I manage users?
Does Radicale have a dashboard?
Doesnt have a dashboard per-se for centralized administration. It has a web ui to manually create create/upload collections. I personally use it a very simplistic way and just reupload an updated .vcf file with all my contacts from time to time.
About user management, I dont know how you installed radicale but they have this docs https://radicale.org/v3.html#authentication
Baikal was easy to migrate. All i needed to do was to copy the single db file.
I use Radicale for a self hosted shared calendar and todo lists and notes with my wife.
Radicale on raspberry pi
Android apps: Davx5 Jtx board Fossify calendar
