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Re: Calendaring?
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Conrad Hughes |
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Re: Calendaring? |
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Thu, 02 Nov 2023 18:04:33 +0000 |
So since you sound technically inclined..
Just to follow up with a summary of what's involved in self-hosting,
which *does work* across all platforms if you try hard enough, these are
some of the things you need to consider:
- You can host the server at home or on a commercial hosting service:
I run davical in a container, and while it didn't do a lot to make
setup easy, it's pretty much fire-and-forget in the manner of most
Linux stuff. If hosting from home you need to sort out NAT so your
mobile devices can reach the server on the move. davical is
lightweight and will run on pretty much any hardware you can think
of. OwnCloud is a viable alternative with similar considerations.
- You need to work out how you're going to back it up, though it
sounds as if with that clipboard you may not be overly concerned
about backups ;-)
- The main ongoing annoyance is server certificate updates from Let's
Encrypt or wherever. Without those, every 3 months/year/whenever
all of the clients will stop trusting the calendar server until you
update your certs. There are scripts to do this automatically.
- There's an Android app to seamlessly connect CalDAV into your
'phone's calendar.
- I am ignorant on this point, but being the origin of the formats
involved, I'm pretty sure that Apple play nicely with it.
- Windows hates CalDAV but talks to Apple so there is a trick whereby
you point it at a fake account on Apple and then make changes on an
Advanced tab which substitutes your server address; this I have not
made work, but one alternative is to just install a different
Windows calendar app that can talk to CalDAV, which I have made
work.
That all done, you can check your calendar anywhere and update it
wherever you've got Internet access, alarms work fine and (with a server
like davical) you can share it with whoever needs to see it; you can
even create multiple calendars and give people read and/or write access
as needed.
Really to go through all that you've got to have a real dislike of
Google et al.; having seen a few folk lose cloud accounts over the years
I think there are good reasons to avoid 'em but doing so is nowhere near
as easy as it should be and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone: having
your calendar intact as far back as the 1990s is not useful enough.
.. and, wrapping all the way back to your original desire for a command
line app, I've never even tried. PIM GUIs are annoying but just about
usable on Linux, the 'phone is annoying but also just about usable.
This is waayyy off-topic so I'll stop there.
Conrad
- Re: Calendaring?, (continued)
- Re: Calendaring?, doug dougwellington . com, 2023/11/02
- Re: Calendaring?, Ken Hornstein, 2023/11/02
- Re: Calendaring?, Conrad Hughes, 2023/11/02
- Re: Calendaring?, doug dougwellington . com, 2023/11/02
- Re: Calendaring?, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2023/11/02
- Re: Calendaring?, Ken Hornstein, 2023/11/02
- Re: Calendaring?, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2023/11/02
- Re: Calendaring?, Ken Hornstein, 2023/11/02
- Re: Calendaring?, Jude DaShiell, 2023/11/02
- Re: Calendaring?, Greg Minshall, 2023/11/06
- Re: Calendaring?,
Conrad Hughes <=
- Re: Calendaring?, doug dougwellington . com, 2023/11/02
- Re: Calendaring?, Thomas Dupond, 2023/11/06
Re: Calendaring?, Oliver Kiddle, 2023/11/02
Re: Calendaring?, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2023/11/02
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