Hi there, I’m looking for a tool to create reports for a self-hosted Caldav calendar, or even a client-side tool.

Here is what I want to achieve:

  • I have a calendar where I write down events, such as my team meetings and work alone time.
  • I want to use a tool to sum the time used per day and per week.
  • The output should be easily copyable or exportable, so text output would be best.

That’s all.

Do you know of a tool, script or service that can do this?

Thank you!

  • walden@wetshav.ingEnglish
    2·
    7 hours ago

    This might be a little overkill, but Home Assistant can do this.

    1. Add the calendar to Home Assistant. You don’t have to manage it there, but it’ll have access.
    2. Under Settings - > Devices & services -> Helpers add a helper of the type History Stats.
    3. For the Entity, select the calendar you want to track, and the Type would be Time.
    4. Next it’ll ask you which State to track. Depending on the specifics, you’ll probably want to track if the calendar is On, meaning there’s something on the calendar. You can track multiple States, but you probably only need On.
    5. On the last page of the wizard you’ll put start and end times. If you want to track from Midnight until Now, here’s what it would look like:

    Start: {{ now().replace(hour=0, minute=0, second=0) }}
    End: {{ now() }}

    You can probably adjust the end time to 23:59 if you want to see what’s in store for the day looking ahead, but I haven’t tried it.

    • lascapi@jlai.luOPEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      A bit overkill, right. But that’s nice to know there is a way.

      I have a raspberry pi zero at home, maybe I can try that at some point. 😊

  • HelloRoot@lemy.lolEnglish
    3·
    9 hours ago

    I searched around a bit and found https://github.com/dreiekk/calcdav

    not sure if it still works, last commit was 3 years ago (on the other hand, there was no AI vibecoding back then, so thats a plus), but it looks like it might do exactly what you’re looking for

    • lascapi@jlai.luOPEnglish
      2·
      8 hours ago

      Ohh!! nice, I didn’t see it when I searched.

      I’m trying to install it on linux, that’s not working so far, but I keep it in mind. :)

  • Tiritibambix@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    11 hours ago

    No caldav option that I know of, but several time tracking options.

    • Kimai

    • Solidtime

    • TimeTagger

    • Traggo

    • ActivityWatch

    • lascapi@jlai.luOPEnglish
      3·
      10 hours ago

      Thanks, but I’m looking specially for a tool to ‘extract’ information from a caldav agenda.

      The main point is that I use it to book my meetings and so on. And I don’t want to have to track my time in another app. :)

  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.orgEnglish
    62·
    13 hours ago

    sum the time used per day

    Once when I was young, I have tried this, too. It turned out that all days used 24 hours, more or less exactly. After a while I found it too boring and let it be…

    /s

  • trougnouf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    13 hours ago

    Not exactly that but Cfait (which I develop) is a CalDAV task manager (which has an option to create calendar events). I added a time tracking feature so you can add / manage sessions (which show up in the calendar if you chose to activate it) and you do get a total time.

    • lascapi@jlai.luOPEnglish
      1·
      10 hours ago

      Very nice, indeed, but I use caldav to book all my stuff. That’s hard to replace.