Selfhosted birthday calendar for the whole family?
from Sibbo@sopuli.xyz to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 23 Jun 16:43
https://sopuli.xyz/post/47707081

Our family has a bunch of people whose birthdays we need to keep track of. Those birthdays matter to everyone, so we would like to have one shared birthday calendar. The calendar should come with an android app that at least sends reminder notifications about birthdays.

What selfhosted solution are you using for this? What can you recommend?

#selfhosted

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Justifier@lemmy.world on 23 Jun 16:47 next collapse

HomeAssistant has a calendar built in

Can likely rig it up to notify of events under whatever parameters you want via push notifications

irmadlad@lemmy.world on 23 Jun 17:01 next collapse

There are a multitude of calendar apps, tho I know of none specifically for birthdays exclusively.

Those are the ones I know of that have an Android capable app. There may be others. Maybe others here will chime in with some options.

tekato@lemmy.world on 23 Jun 19:06 collapse

Easier to just host an .ics file with all the events in some website and let everyone use whatever calendar app they like.

irmadlad@lemmy.world on 23 Jun 19:13 collapse

Absolutely. I was just going by what the OP requested. But you’re right. There are other ways to skin the cat.

nexttech@lemmy.world on 23 Jun 20:36 collapse

What did the cat do ? :(

irmadlad@lemmy.world on 23 Jun 20:51 collapse

LOL It’s just one of those phrases that people say. Some history tho if you like to read the etymology of words and phrases:

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nexttech@lemmy.world on 23 Jun 20:56 collapse

Thanks for the clarification!

StrawberryPigtails@discuss.tchncs.de on 23 Jun 17:20 next collapse

I use Nextcloud to host my calanders. With caldav (what nextcloud uses under the hood), reminders are handled by the client. I use Apple’s Reminders app on my phone and Thunderbird on my laptop.

Nextcloud does have a built in calandering app, but I’ve not used it much. I think it can do email notifications of calander events.

vk6flab@lemmy.radio on 23 Jun 17:37 next collapse

There’s nothing to host.

Create an iCal file and import it into your calendar application on your phone.

dm9pZCAq@piefed.0x0c.link on 23 Jun 18:21 next collapse

instead of calendar app this can be used: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.minar.birday

Ooops@feddit.org on 23 Jun 19:18 collapse

Don’t host the calendar, just host some WebDAV/CalDAV. That format is supported by basically all apps on every platform (usually including the default app on most phones), so everyone can pick what they want (or just stick with what they already use).

My personal pick for that purpose is Radicale.

monomon@programming.dev on 23 Jun 19:26 next collapse

Been using Radicale for a few months now, I’m really happy with it. Granted, it’s not the fastest with large scale updates (which don’t seem to be OP’s use case). On Android I settled on One Calendar. Tried a few other apps, including DAVx5, which had issues, I think with full day events showing wrong.

non_burglar@lemmy.world on 23 Jun 23:29 collapse

Davx5 is just a bridge between calendar apps and dav providers. One calendar has this function built-in. Any issues showing content on the right time zone, etc would be in the client, not davx5.

monomon@programming.dev on 24 Jun 18:12 collapse

I’m sorry yeah, not sure which calendar program it was, then. Perhaps it was Davx5 + another calendar program. I tried a few, and several had issues with full-day events. (the events themselves seemed fine in the ical)

suzune@ani.social on 24 Jun 05:43 next collapse

Another alternative is Baïkal.

uuj8za@piefed.social on 24 Jun 19:02 collapse

I’m using Radicale + DAVx5 + Fossify Calendar.

Curious what other calendar apps on Android folks use.