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What is Radicale and how do I use it? (thelemmy.club)

submitted 1 hour ago by philanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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

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[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

My experience with radicale

https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=services%3Aradicale

I currently use it, from android with dav5x (F-droid)

[–] philanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club 3 points 36 minutes ago

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

[–] yaroto98@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] philanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club 1 points 34 minutes ago

Is it hard to set up? Sound perfect for what I want, just also seems complicated for my skills haha

[–] fozid@feddit.uk 1 points 49 minutes ago (1 children)

Exactly for what you want it for. I've been using it about 3 months. Contacts and calender. It's a real pain to set up. Not straight forward. I didn't a lot of time with ai as could not get my head round the guide.

[–] philanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club 1 points 35 minutes ago

Yeah I hear you. I've installed it but I have no idea what to do from here. Cant access any kind of dash. I've just learnt it doesn't have a native dash but you need a third party app for that?

[–] philanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 hour ago

Follow up questions:

I seed to have created multiple users, how can I manage users?

Does Radicale have a dashboard?