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Owning my own data, part 1: Integrating a self-hosted calendar solution

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Re: Owning my own data, part 1: Integrating a self-hosted calendar solution

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I've used Radicale for a long time. It works well. I recently moved to next cloud, only because my shared host is handling the deployment, and it comes with an integrated web UI, which is much less hassle to setup.

Nextcloud is great. However, at least in my case selfhosted version is rather slow even with enough hardware and recommended tuning.

yep. nextcloud and davx5 for android

Re: Owning my own data, part 1: Integrating a self-hosted calendar solution

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I have a self hosted calendar solution. It was $15 at Staples, and it hangs in my kitchen. It wasn't a complete out of the box solution, though, I had to do a little work to customize it. I placed a pen cup with a few pens in it on the counter near the calendar to ensure it is always easy to modify.

My wife uses this solution. When I am at work and someone wants to know if I can do a team dinner, I have to call her if she's at home, or tell them I'll get back to them. I never know if I'm free and finding out is inefficient at best.

Re: Owning my own data, part 1: Integrating a self-hosted calendar solution

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How does it handle notifications? How do you access it remotely? How do you share it for common events with others? Comparing a paper calendar to a digital one is like comparing a Nokia 3310 to a modern smartphone. Yes, technically both are "a phone" but that's roughly where the similarities end.

How do you access it remotely? Set up a webcam stream of the calendar How do you share it for common events with others? Share the webcam link or ring them up on the telephone if we are (jokingly) going traditional.

Giving edit access is as easy as giving whoever your front door key!

Re: Owning my own data, part 1: Integrating a self-hosted calendar solution

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I know I will probably get pushback over this, but CalDAV sucks . People say that it's great and that it's easy; yet if that were true there would be way more self-hosted CalDAV solutions out there and they would be far more ergonomic than what's available. I was not impressed with Radicale. Because there's really only one calendar file I wanted to serve to myself, I tried implementing my own CalDAV server just for t…

I use Nextcloud's CalDAV and CardDAV with DAVx5 and it works pretty much perfectly

Re: Owning my own data, part 1: Integrating a self-hosted calendar solution

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I know I will probably get pushback over this, but CalDAV sucks . People say that it's great and that it's easy; yet if that were true there would be way more self-hosted CalDAV solutions out there and they would be far more ergonomic than what's available. I was not impressed with Radicale. Because there's really only one calendar file I wanted to serve to myself, I tried implementing my own CalDAV server just for t…

> Instead, initially went with the approach of hosting my dynamically updating iCal file in an S3 bucket and using ICSx5 on Android to sync with it. No CalDAV needed – just HTTPS.

Well you also can't integrate this into most calendars. I don't even know what the hell an iCal file is. I haven't even heard "iCal" in what feels like decades.

> I know I will probably get pushback over this, but CalDAV sucks.

All the alternatives are worse.

Re: Owning my own data, part 1: Integrating a self-hosted calendar solution

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I know I will probably get pushback over this, but CalDAV sucks . People say that it's great and that it's easy; yet if that were true there would be way more self-hosted CalDAV solutions out there and they would be far more ergonomic than what's available. I was not impressed with Radicale. Because there's really only one calendar file I wanted to serve to myself, I tried implementing my own CalDAV server just for t…

> Instead, initially went with the approach of hosting my dynamically updating iCal file in an S3 bucket and using ICSx5 on Android to sync with it. No CalDAV needed – just HTTPS. Well you also can't integrate this into most calendars. I don't even know what the hell an iCal file is. I haven't even heard "iCal" in what feels like decades. > I know I will probably get pushback over this, but CalDAV sucks. All the alte…

Short for iCalendar. (.ics files)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar

Re: Owning my own data, part 1: Integrating a self-hosted calendar solution

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Nice!. I would like to do something like this but for Photos. I want to get off Dropbox and Google for a while. At the top of my list are: 1. Create a memories like feature from my photos to send on my cell phone, grouping by different features I like: anniversaries, similar activities, A `Me an X(X is Spouse, family, friends etc)`, Over the years(how x has evolved over the years). 2. Be able to save photos taken fro…

I just did this a few months ago. I used PhotoPrism https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism
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