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Guess I was always using the right combination of apps. Never had any problems with CalDAV and CardDAV. Except for frustration at outright missing support.
What apps are you using?
Also using caldav and I'm missing a decent macos client and/or web facing client I can self host for tasks.
Nextcloud as the server and DAVx⁵ with Fossify Calendar as the client on my phone. On my laptop Kontact, but I haven't looked at that in ages, so it could be in shambles for all I know. I think I've also used Thunderbird with some plugin.
And my Fritzbox router uses CardDAV to populate the phonebook of all connected phones.
Thunderbird doesn't even need a plugin. Just "add new calendar" > "on the network" > enter the URL. Done.
Same for contacts.
BusyCal as a macOS client and baikal as a server.
Those two are reliable as can be. BusyCal is a great app with a responsive developer and can connect to virtually anything.
As to the topic of this post, despite the above, I’m trying to move away from CalDAV and CardDAV, the latter has poor support on most mobile platforms in the way I want to use it. I also am trying to reduce self hosted platforms I maintain, which is currently a high number.
You are probably the exception rather than the rule. Nextcloud, in my experience, is the only one that seems to work fairly well. Just look at the Issues on Github for apps that try to use CalDAV.