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What is Radicale and how do I use it? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 hours 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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[–] Ooops@feddit.org 1 points 12 minutes ago* (last edited 10 minutes ago)

With radicale, do I need to install some other somewhere in order to use it?

No, you just need to install Radicale. That's it. calDAV and cardDAV are widely used formats available as an option with basically any calendar.

Can a self hosted calendar still send and receive invites to other calendars?

Oh, I see your problem. You don't host your calendar. You host a service that is used to synchronise all the regular calendars you already use over different devices.

Or are you at the moment using Google's calendar in browser only?

[–] trewq@lemmy.world 1 points 23 minutes ago

Baikal was easy to migrate. All i needed to do was to copy the single db file.

[–] xtools@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 6 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

My experience with radicale

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

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

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 28 minutes ago

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

This is your wiki? I've been there before. Turned up in a search.

[–] philanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 hour 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 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours 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 1 hour ago

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

[–] philanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Follow up questions:

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

Does Radicale have a dashboard?

[–] eskuero@lemmy.fromshado.ws 1 points 21 minutes ago

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

[–] fozid@feddit.uk 1 points 2 hours 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 1 hour 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?