I’m looking for a self hosted calendar that supports multiple users, runs in docker, and is easy to integrate into home assistant and a phone app. Does anything like this exist or should i lower my expectations?
I run Nextcloud for this. Never understood the complaints about it, I find it hard to believe everyone’s so short of CPU power that Nextcloud is anything more than a rounding error running in the background.
There’s half a dozen of us using it for shared calendars, files, and contacts.
Currently around 6TB of files, a couple of hundred or so contacts in the shared contacts list, and many recurring (and one off) events.
Been working perfectly since before Nextcloud forked from OwnCloud.
If you don’t follow their tuning guide, Nextcloud does run very poorly on SQLite and without Redis/caching. Apache also performs significantly worse than nginx + php-fpm.
https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/installation/server_tuning.html
It does run very well with Postgres + Redis + php-fpm + OPcache and has been pretty much the center of my selfhosting endeavor since ownCloud times.
Fossify Calendar in f-droid and Nextcloud. Termux calcurse-caldav and Nextcloud.
I used both radicale and baikal. Both work great. Both support CalDAV and CardDAV, to sync with them you need thr davx5 app on android. I ended up going with radicale because it supports proxy authentication and I can use it with Authelia
The protocol is called CalDAV (and CardDAV for contacts).
Plenty applications exist that can do it on both sides - it’s not like you need a specific client app that fits your specific server app.
FWIW, I find NextCloud too bloated and prefer Radicale for the above mentioned.
And yes, it runs in Docker.
Nextcloud 🤷♂️
I’m using Nextcloud as well, but I’ll admit that it’s probably a bit heavy if all one needs is a calendar.
Definitely overkill for just a calendar app but the great thing about NextCloud is once you spin it up there’s probably an integration for the next 5 FOSS solutions you’re looking for, which means fewer containers to manage in Docker.
Definitely, that’s what I’m doing as well. I’ve found some to be lacking for my needs (e.g. music), but most of them are good enough for most use cases.
You can connect nextcloud to home assistant, I do that
What about a web GUI for calendars? Not nextcloud.
InfCloud. Works well with Radicale, and does contacts, too.
It’s not pretty, but works very well for the 5/100 times I want to check through a browser instead of Calendar app / Thunderbird.
Thanks, i also found this https://github.com/ckulka/infcloud-docker dockerization of infCloud, will try that one when i have time.
Radicale. I just finished setting it up and with that, I can now finally shut down Nextcloud.
Why do you want to shut down Nextcloud? 🤔
How do you handle shared calendars with radicale?
I have had positive experiences with both Radicale and Baikal. I am not sure about the Home Assistant integration, but they both use CalDAV, so I would be surprised if there wasn’t a way of connecting them. iOS has native support for CalDAV, but Android needs the davx5 app (free on F-Droid).
Tasks.org also works great with CalDAV. On f-droid as well.
I’ve found radicale more stable in my implementation, but both are very good and are pretty similar to use.
If you already have NextCloud/OwnCloud it would be a good to use the Calendar that is already built in, but it doesn’t make sense to install those for a calendar when there are better options available.
I tried both and for some reason Baikal just played nicer. I’m sure either is fine though.
Nextcloud was too bulky for my needs.
Why no container?
Oh I’m sure it runs perfectly fine in a container, it’s just not my preferred setup.
I use Radicale för it.
I tried radicale. Nextcloud is easier to manage. That’s what I recommend.
https://github.com/tchapi/davis is a good option.
i had radicale working as you describe with home assistant and mobile/desktop apps for years
