What is Radicale and how do I use it?

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• Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My experience with radicale

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

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

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  • philanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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  • irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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

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    • Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes it is, written by me by hand 100%…

      Zero AI too… Just old grumpy bashing

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• yaroto98@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s how you can copy/backup/sync calendar and contacts.

  on my phone I installed davx3 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.

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  • philanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• FlowerFan@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  are you on android or iOS?

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• non_burglar@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  but I have no idea how to use it

  Install davx5, connect to radicale, and allow your calendar/contacts access to it.

  I’d like to be able to self host my own calendar and contacts. Is radicale appropriate for this?

  Yes.

  Is it safe to self host a calendar?

  Define “safe”.

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

  Short answer: no. You are describing caldav/cardav integration with email.

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• Ooops@feddit.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• trewq@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• xtools@programming.dev ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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• fozid@feddit.uk ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • philanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?

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    • Ooops@feddit.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 = htpasswd and htpasswd_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.

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• philanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Follow up questions:

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

  Does Radicale have a dashboard?

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  • eskuero@lemmy.fromshado.ws ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 radicale.org/v3.html#authentication

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