Own your calendar and contacts with OpenBSD, Baïkal, and FOSS Android
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Re: Own your calendar and contacts with OpenBSD, Baïkal, and FOSS Android
#2faster to use Nextcloud that does a lot more things out of the box in a single install
Re: Own your calendar and contacts with OpenBSD, Baïkal, and FOSS Android
#3faster to use Nextcloud that does a lot more things out of the box in a single install
I also use Nextcloud for this. Works pretty good. The only problem I have with it is that there is no automated way to backup your calendar/contacts.
Re: Own your calendar and contacts with OpenBSD, Baïkal, and FOSS Android
#4faster to use Nextcloud that does a lot more things out of the box in a single install
I tried using Nextcloud several times in the past, but the experience on Android was always sketchy for me. Contacts and calendar that would randomly (and silently) stop synchronizing, their mobile app stuck on endless spinner when browsing photos and files.
It has pretty web interface, but it was just unusable where it mattered.
Re: Own your calendar and contacts with OpenBSD, Baïkal, and FOSS Android
#5I do, but without Android and {card,cal}dav... Emacs/org-mode/org-agenda/org-contacts for in-Emacs usage (for instance for email/notmuch) and with classic LDAP on the homeserver for my VoIP phones...
Re: Own your calendar and contacts with OpenBSD, Baïkal, and FOSS Android
#6faster to use Nextcloud that does a lot more things out of the box in a single install
I tried using Nextcloud several times in the past, but the experience on Android was always sketchy for me. Contacts and calendar that would randomly (and silently) stop synchronizing, their mobile app stuck on endless spinner when browsing photos and files. It has pretty web interface, but it was just unusable where it mattered.
Same here, and I have many problems with the web interface too. And sometimes when I add an app to my Nextcloud user, the whole instance just stops working and I wasn't able to find a way to recover.
Re: Own your calendar and contacts with OpenBSD, Baïkal, and FOSS Android
#7An interesting alternative is Radicale [1].
Both are very lightweight.
I mainly chose Radicale over Baïkal because it is written in Python.
On the client side DAVx⁵ [2] do a good job.
Re: Own your calendar and contacts with OpenBSD, Baïkal, and FOSS Android
#8faster to use Nextcloud that does a lot more things out of the box in a single install
I tried using Nextcloud several times in the past, but the experience on Android was always sketchy for me. Contacts and calendar that would randomly (and silently) stop synchronizing, their mobile app stuck on endless spinner when browsing photos and files. It has pretty web interface, but it was just unusable where it mattered.
With DAVx⁵ (https://f-droid.org/packages/at.bitfire.davdroid/) I find contact and calendar sync with Nextcloud to be quite reliable.
That said, for file syncs I do prefer Seafile over Nextcloud. I don't think I'm the only one that prefers Nextcloud just for contact/calendar sync because Mailcow uses the Nextcloud platform just to accomplish that, with file sync disabled.
On desktop the sync integration is fine. It's only on mobile that the experience is lacking.
Re: Own your calendar and contacts with OpenBSD, Baïkal, and FOSS Android
#9Or use DecSync [0] and eliminate the need for any central server.
Re: Own your calendar and contacts with OpenBSD, Baïkal, and FOSS Android
#10faster to use Nextcloud that does a lot more things out of the box in a single install
I also use Nextcloud for this. Works pretty good. The only problem I have with it is that there is no automated way to backup your calendar/contacts.
You can backup contacts and calendar usually from within your email client