Contacts and calendars sync without a server (Syncthing + Radicale)
How to sync contacts and calendars between desktop and Android (without root)
I am using this setup for years by now. Works great mostly.
Can you tell us more about "mostly"?
I just realized this is not the exact setup I use. I use Radicale on the desktop but additionally Decsync. So I don't need Radicale on my other devices, just a Decsync client.
With "mostly" in my case I was referring to the Radicale-Decsync plugin which works great but doesn't seem to be actively maintained anymore. So there was an instance where Radicale changed something and the Decsync plugin didn't work anymore. Was an easy fix but sadly that fix is still not available in the "official" Radicale-Decsync plugin which makes it hard for non technical users to use it, currently.
Its great, been using it for a while across a few different devices. Android/windows/Linux, it doesn't care.
Isn't that just overcomplicating things for no reason? Radicale provides WebDAV endpoints that clients (including DAVx5 on Android) can just connect to, to synchronize calendars and contacts. All of this setup seems to just do all the sync part manually through Syncthing rather than just use Radicale's built-in functionality.
I just use Syncthing to backup Radicale files. I guess this is to remove the need for a domain name and web server? This won't work with all devices like iphones. Also shared calendars won't sync properly.
I'll try this! I used to use caldav via my mail provider with DAVx5, but I had problems with it not retaining notification settings with recurring events.
I don't know if that's a problem with their caldav server, DAVx5, or my phone's calendar. But worth trying with radicale and see if it works.
