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Help me understand contacts, calendar and caldav/cardav
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this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2024
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My solution to this was a radicale docker container, with DAVx5 on f-droid. Very lightweight, just works without much configuration needed. I don't use my phone for email much, so I just use thunderbird for my email client
Yeah, I've heard about radicale. But the "merging" and sync still happens on the client side of things (Android). I was hoping for some kind of dockerized backend service that can bring together all the calendars. And the only thing I'd have to do is go into the backend, connect FM and google (or any other calendar) and link that (dockerized) service account on my phone.
Ah, I see. Looks like some other people in this thread gave you some good info, I'll have to keep this in mind if I ever need to change my approach. Happy to hear you got a good answer!
but yeah, setting up davx5 with my fastmail account gives me exactly what I need. I can use the google calendar app to have my FM calendar fully integrated.
Radicale is a single executable, do you really need docker to set it up?
Basically takes the same time to set it up and run on bare metal...
Sometimes feels like docker is getting out of hand.
If I already have a docker environment set up, why not use the container? I use containers for most of my stuff, if I can. It makes many aspects of system management so much easier.
Absolutely! If that feels easier and more consistent go ahead and use the container.
But its really one single executable with zero dependencies. Manual setup is really as fast as podman pull & up -d.
Yeah that's true. Different styles of deployment, in the end all that matters is that your application is up and running