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faster 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.
faster 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.
An 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. [1] https://radicale.org/v3.html [2] https://www.davx5.com/
The backend storage is simply ics/vcf files and while I'm sure it's not the most efficient if you had a large number of users, for our small group it's been perfect and very satisfying knowing your data is there in plain text files.
Although if I'm honest I'm just cheap and wanted to get by on the smallest VM offered by my cloud provider and NextCloud was too demanding for that.
Or use DecSync [0] and eliminate the need for any central server. [0]: https://github.com/39aldo39/DecSync
Thunderbird (Linux) - Radicale+Radicale DecSync plugin (Linux/Systemd) - 'DecSync' Folder (Linux) - Syncthing (Linux) - Syncthing-fork (Android/F-droid) - 'DecSync' Folder (Android) - Decsync CC (Android/F-droid) - Simple Calendar Pro (Android/F-droid)
Radicale runs only on localhost. Syncthing runs only on the local network.
The synchronization only happens if the computer and the phone are on the same wifi network.
An 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. [1] https://radicale.org/v3.html [2] https://www.davx5.com/
I believe that’s why the author was avoiding NextCloud.
Any experience interoping something like this with google calendar? I'd love to use something like this, but I can't fall back to having separate calendar apps for work and personal stuff.
The challenge with self-hosting is maintenance. The more complexity and more dependencies, the more maintenance. I believe that’s why the author was avoiding NextCloud.
An 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. [1] https://radicale.org/v3.html [2] https://www.davx5.com/
I’ve been using radicale for contacts and calendar for quite a few years now. Plays nice with iOS Mail and Contacts as well as Gnome Evolution and has overall been a great experience.