How can i sync my KDE addressbook with my mobile phone?

André

Hi everybody,

i have a T610 mobile phone.

I can sync my addresses via evolution easily. I switched to KDE and would prefer kontact now. So i would like to sync my kde addressbook with my phone. It this possible?

I heard about a plugin for multisync which enables syncing with kdepim apps (like the addressbook). Is this one avaible for (K)Ubuntu somehow? Does somehow have a repository for this?

Any other ideas??

Greetings
André

ltmon

If you open kontact from the menu there should be an item in the far left menu called "synchronisation".

You then call file->new and select 2 plugins to synchronize between. There is no multisync in my plugins menu, but there is one called IrmcSync which may be similar (I don't know much about this stuff). Possibly new plugins are able to be added, but you will have to google for it i think.

Let me know if you have success. I have a k700i (very similar to the T610) which I talk to with kdebluetooth, but I haven't tried to get synching working at all. I'll give it a go when I have some time.

L.

André

Hi ltmon,

thanks for your answer. I nearly gave up :-/

When i use the kontact - synchronisation plugin and click on new i don't get the irmcsync option.

Did you install some addintional stuff that maybe missing on my system?

Btw, do you have a nice repository for kdebluetooth?

Greetings and thanks again for your help
André

ltmon

I used the packages that Simone Gotti made for Kubuntu: here. Before you install these I think you need to install bluez-utils, which is a dependency.

That installed kdebluetooth no problems.

Then (after reading around a bit) I modified my file /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf to look like this:

Code:

#
# HCI daemon configuration file.
#
# $Id: hcid.conf,v 1.4 2004/04/29 20:14:21 holtmann Exp $
#
# HCId options
options {
 # Automatically initialize new devices
 autoinit yes;

 # Security Manager mode
 #   none - Security manager disabled
 #   auto - Use local PIN for incoming connections
 #   user - Always ask user for a PIN
 #
 security user;

 # Pairing mode
 #   none  - Pairing disabled
 #   multi - Allow pairing with already paired devices
 #   once  - Pair once and deny successive attempts
 pairing multi;

 # PIN helper
 # pin_helper /usr/bin/bluez-pin;
 pin_helper /usr/lib/kdebluetooth/kbluepin;

 # D-Bus PIN helper
 #dbus_pin_helper;
}

# Default settings for HCI devices
device {
 # Local device name
 #   %d - device id
 #   %h - host name
 name "%h-%d";

 # Local device class
 class 0xff0100;

 # Default packet type
 #pkt_type DH1,DM1,HV1;

 # Inquiry and Page scan
 iscan enable; pscan enable;

 # Default link mode
 #   none   - no specific policy 
 #   accept - always accept incoming connections
 #   master - become master on incoming connections,
 #            deny role switch on outgoing connections
 #
 #lm accept,master;
 #
 lm accept;

 # Default link policy
 #   none    - no specific policy
 #   rswitch - allow role switch
 #   hold    - allow hold mode
 #   sniff   - allow sniff mode
 #   park    - allow park mode
 #
 #lp hold,sniff;
 #
 lp hold,sniff,park;

 # Authentication and Encryption
 #auth enable;
 #encrypt enable;
}

This should be enough to get kdebluetooth working. When I plug my bluetooth dongle in, I get a notification alerting me that it has been found. I can now pair the devices and send files back and forth.

Hope this gets you to the same stage.

L.

André · 09:59 AM

Hi,

that's so newbish but could you tell me the line you added to your sources.list?

I just can't get it right :-/

// Got it right already

I am testing the new konnector right now..

Greetings and thanks in advance
André

André

Mmmmhhh...

that doesn't seem to work.

I have kdebluetooth installed and it works pretty well. I can see my phone, exchange data, ...

Then i switched to kontact, calling the sync plugin. I chose addressbook and irmcsync as pair but when i click on sync it seems to do nothing

Any ideas??

André

ltmon

I just got it to work last night.

1. sudo apt-get install multisync

Multisync is GTK based app that Multisynk (with a K, which is what is used in Kontact) is a frontend to.

2. In Kontact, choose a IrmcKonnector as the first device. You then click on "Options" (or is it "Configure", I'm at work and can't remember quite). You then choose a device (your phone should appear in the list of possible devices if kdebluetooth is working properly), and choose whether to sync address book or calendar.

3. The second device should _NOT_ be Addressbook (makes sense huh?) but "Local Resource". In the options view for this device you need to choose the files that contain your address book/calendar. This is pretty easy, because when you browse for files, the default is the one you want.

Now you can sync.

I did find it a little buggy, in that it didn't work every time. Sometimes I couldn't get the options window up for IrmcConnector, and other times it would start synching and freeze.

L.

André

Hi, thanks again for your post. I still have some problems:

Quote: