Open Source @lemmy.ml pr06lefs @lemmy.ml 8 mo. ago

OSS calendar servers/clients that don't suck?

Just missed a meeting today because I accepted an event on Thunderbird this morning, that should have synced to Nextcloud, and then to my phone running a calendar app from 'simplemobiletools'. Never made it. After I missed the meeting I didn't see the event on nextcloud, then went to look at the event on thunderbird, and now lo and behold its on nextcloud, two hours after it was over. Cool. Still not on the phone.

Anyone have a solid calendar stack they like? I'd like to reliably get from emailed invite to alert on my phone.

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Heads up about SimpleMobileTools - the project sold out and some of those apps are no longer being updated, I'd suggest migrating your data over to the forked apps now maintained by the Fossify organization

https://www.androidauthority.com/simple-mobile-tools-acquisition-3391041/

https://github.com/FossifyOrg
- The better case is when the app is not updated. The worse when it was updated with whatever data mining or other solution the new owner attached to it. Be sure to delete the old app (export data if possible) and install the fossify one in any case
Radicale + Thunderbird + Davx5/tasks.org/acalendar+
- Unfortunately Davx5 is broken if you use a firewall to block google calling home to the mothership
  
  Davx5 from Fdroid has no dependency on Google
  
  I use Rethink to block 90% of my traffic, including all system processes on my LineageOS. DAVx⁵ works like a charm for me.
  
  Thank you for pointing out Davx blindly follows NET_CAPABILITY... which calls home. I avoid data mining apps but don't have a firewall to protect from these cases, may I ask what you recommend?
- That's what I've been using for a few years now, with SimpleCalendar (soon Fossify) on my phone. Didn't have any problems yet.
The problem isn't with Nextcloud (I had the same issue happen with me). The problem is with the default sync settings on Thunderbird and DAVx5 (at least for me). Thunderbird defaulted to a longer than I wanted synch schedule, so I dropped it down to syncing every 15 minutes. DAVx5 was set to 240 minutes unless the event was created on my phone. Once I updated both schedules to every 15 minutes, I haven't noticed an issue.
Chiming in for Radicale. Been running it for a couple of years now along with Fantastical (I’m on iOS/macOS), and it’s been great.
The problem is not that the clients suck, the problem is that you're using Nextcloud. Switch to something like Radicale or Baikal and it will all work fine.
Radicale, CalDAV-Sync, Calengoo.

Calengoo can also connect directly to Radicale.

DAVx5 works fine too for the most part but it crashed once and doesn't seem to like calendars with lots of events.

CalDAV-Sync is old but super solid. It can't do contacts but there's a counterpart app called "CardDAV-Sync Free" for that.

Also can't do calendars that are marked "journal only" so if you need that you gotta use DAVx5.
CalDav
I use kcaldav and davx5
DecSync?

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