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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!

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[–] walden@wetshav.ing 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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.lu 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 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.lol 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

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.lu 2 points 13 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. :)

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] lascapi@jlai.lu 4 points 16 hours ago

Ahah !! 😂 so true !

[–] trougnouf@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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.lu 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Do you mean this one? https://codeberg.org/trougnouf/cfait

Very nice project! 🤠

[–] trougnouf@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

Yes :-) thank you!

[–] erkan@slrpnk.net 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

https://timewarrior.net/

Not CalDav but timewarrior does exactly what you describe.

[–] lascapi@jlai.lu 1 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 0 points 14 hours ago

Well, you have already written the prompt 🪄