You don’t need a dashboard. Think of it as just a database. And then other apps interact with it. On my android phone I have davx5 which does all the syncing of things like calendar and contacts. Setting up and syncing with davx5 is the easy bit. The hard bit is getting authentication working and creating the databases. Mine works perfectly but I couldn’t tell you how I set it up. If I want to add another calendar or contacts list to it Id have to go and figure it all out again.
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philanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club 1 week agoYeah 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?
fozid@feddit.uk 1 week ago
Ooops@feddit.org 1 week ago
Take a look at the config file (
/etc/radicale/config). It’s extensively commented. Although you barely need to change any defaults for regular use.Just create an htpasswd file (with htpsswd, apache-tools or just an online generator) and edit tow lines und [auth] to read
type = htpasswdandhtpasswd_filename = <the location and file you created>.The webinterface to login will be available (by default settings) under localhost:5232.
All you have to do then is change the config so Radicale listens on the server’s IP instead so it’s available in in your network. (Plus the usual stuff of making it available from the outside if you need that like for any other sevice)
And any calendar/contact software will bring a wizard that guides you through the process of sync’ing, usually just asking for an address to reach your server, as well as user and password.