Calendar, ToDo-List and Addressbook Server (through radicale)

With radicale you can synchronize your personal Calendars, ToDo-Lists and Addressbooks with your various computers, tables, smartphones etc. and share them with friends without letting third parties know your personal Schedule or Contacts.

Why running Radicale?

Using Radicale, you can get rid of centralized services like Google Calendar or Apple Calendar (iCloud) mining your events and social connections.

How to setup Radicale?

First, the Radicale server needs to be activated on your box.

Radicale can be accessed by any user with a FreedomBox login. However, each user only has access to his data. If you want to share a calendar with friends, the simplest approach is to create an additional user for your friends and to share that user name and password with them.

Radicale does not have a user interface. An external supported client application is needed.

Now open your client application to create new calendar and address books that will use your FreedomBox and Radicale server. The Radicale website provides tutorials to setup a large selection of clients. Below are the steps for two examples:

Experienced Users

Sharing ressources

Above was shown an easy way to create a ressource for a group of people by creating a dedicated account for all. Here will be described an alternative method where two users User1 and User2 are granted access to a calendar. This requires SSH-access to the FreedomBox.

  1. create a file /etc/radicale/rights

    • [friends_calendar]
      user: ^(User1|User2)$
      collection: ^.*/calendar_of_my_friends.ics$
      permission: rw
      
      # Give write access to owners
      [owner-write]
      user: .+
      collection: ^%(login)s/.+$
      permission: rw
    • [friends_calendar] is just an identifier, can be any name.

    • The [owner-write] section makes sure that owners have access to their own files

  2. edit file /etc/radicale/config and make the following changes in section [rights)

    • [rights]
      type = from_file
      file = /etc/radicale/rights
  3. Restart the radicale server or the FreedbomBox

Importing files

If you are using a contacts file exported from another service or application, it should be copied to: /var/lib/radicale/collections/user/contact file name.vcf.

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