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Hey, i added a small script and infos at: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Import_Vcf_Contacts how to import vcf contacts to the default 2007.2 contacts application Phil _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Does this work for files containing more than one contact, or just for one contact per file? _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Thanks Phil. I tweaked it to get it to work with more than one contact per
file as exported by my K700i. It should work as before if there's just one
contact per file. Here's the modified bit.
for name in names:
print name
vcard = ""
f=open(name,'r')
for line in f:
vcard = vcard + line
if line[:9] == "END:VCARD":
getAddressBook().addContact(vcard)
vcard = ""
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I'm using Al's modification to Phil's import script and get the
following error. Anyone understand and can explain how to fix?
root@om-gta02:/media/card/Contacts/abook# python ../import
evocontacts.vcf
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "../import", line 32, in <module>
getAddressBook().addContact(vcard)
File "../import", line 17, in getAddressBook
sb = dbus.SessionBus()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/_dbus.py", line 217, in
__new__
mainloop=mainloop)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/_dbus.py", line 106, in
__new__
bus = BusConnection.__new__(subclass, bus_type, mainloop=mainloop)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 125, in __new__
bus = cls._new_for_bus(address_or_type, mainloop=mainloop)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException:
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: dbus-launch failed to
autolaunch D-Bus session: Autolaunch requested, but X11 support not
compiled in.
Cannot continue.
I called the script "import" and it resides in the /media/card/Contacts
folder and I put my evocontacts.vcf in the /media/card/Contacts/abook
directory. It is the export of around 611 contacts from Evolution.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Brian
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Brian C wrote: [a long error message because he didn't run the script from the OM terminal] Ok, so the script runs now that I realize it must be run from the OM terminal. However, it appears to have entered all "null" contacts and so far none of them appear to have any actual contact info in them. Brian _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Hi, I ran into the same problem, but I did get them in now with the script. I had two issues actually. The easiest to try is to remove the empty lines between the entries in the vCard file, and have them all in a long jumble. That solved my last problem. I did have another problem when I played around with the contacts in Evolution on the desktop. I started by exporting the contacts as vCard from Wammu. Evolution refused to read those v2.1 vCards. I then exported it as ldif from wammu, and had to make a small change in the entries so that evolution read them correctly (adding a cn or smth). AFAIK the openmoko contacts is also based on evolution so there might be similar problems. When I tried to import Wammu vCards, they showed up as null entries on openmoko. When I exported the contacts as vCard (3.0) from evolution, and removed the empty lines in the vCard file, I could import them to openmoko with the script. I'm not sure if the new vCard format helped any. Hope it helps, Kalle _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
It might work from an ssh session if you run: dbus-launch scriptname I haven't tried this though - just guessing based on similar behaviour from Blank line removal should be a one-liner - if only I were more familiar with Interesting...I remember having similar problems with OpenXchange a couple of years ago. It assumed v3 and didn't check the version in the vCard itself. You had to pick which interface to use depending on the vCard version. i wonder if Evolution Data Server is doing something similar? _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
If you do not want to delete all the "null" contacts by hand I've made a script(attached as remove_all_contacts.py) based on Wurps script which removes all contacts in your addressbook. It should be pretty Take a quick look at the attached import_contacts.py script, it is
Hah, thanks for fixing the script. I almost feel ashamed for not spending a few minutes to fix it up, but just did vim magic on my _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Andreas Dalsgaard, 2008-07-14 14:01:07 +0200 : Please pardon my intruding into a thread, I just subscribed to the list. I have also worked on contacts management, mostly to allow myself to fix non-ASCII names in a real editor with a real keyboard. The result is the attached script, which improves on the previous ones in the following ways: - you can run it through SSH, and it looks for a DBUS session; - you can dump all contacts to a file (a series of concatenated vcards); - you an reload that file (after having altered it), and it'll update contacts when they already exist (based on UID) or create new contacts otherwise. So, basically: $ scp manage-contacts.py openmoko: $ ssh openmoko python manage-contacts.py dump > contacts.txt $ emacs/vim/nano/gedit/whatever contacts.txt $ ssh openmoko python manage-contacts.py load < contacts.txt As far as I'm concerned (look, I'm a Debian integrist, I'm *supposed* to care about these things :-), my modifications to the initial script are subject to the WTFPL. Roland. -- Roland Mas Plus on en fout, plus y'en a du riz. -- Proverbe chinois.
Forgot to mention: that feature uses a gross hack, I'd be happy to see it cleaned up. I just didn't manage to find the query syntax for the getContactList() method. Roland. -- Roland Mas Le weblog entièrement nu -- http://roland.entierement.nu/ Le photoblog entièrement net -- http://roland.entierement.net/ _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Please update http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Import_Vcf_Contacts with your new versions, if you need space i could place it @my domain (like my first version :D) Phil _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Space isn't a problem (I uploaded the script to [1]), but I'm reluctant to create yet another account on yet another website. Could you add the link (and maybe rephrase the text on the article to remove the thing about running from a terminal rather than SSH)? Thanks, Roland. [1] http://www.placard.fr.eu.org/~roland/tmp/manage-contacts.py -- Roland Mas () Campagne du ruban ASCII : /\ Contre les mails en HTML et les vcard ! _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Further to the recent "questions about our mailinglists" thread, ISTM that this is more suitable for device-owners than the wider community list. Stroller. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
What about using GTK contacts [1]? It runs both on PC and in Openmoko and it should allow you to manage your contacts in a better way. I've used in my PC to import my old mobile phone contacts and I figure it will work well also in a Freerunner... :P [1] http://pimlico-project.org/contacts.html -- Treviño's World - Life and Linux http://www.3v1n0.net/ _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
All,
I get the following error using manage-contacts.py in the following
way from SSH:
python manage-contacts.py load <vCards.vcf
[removed listing of first vcard entry]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "manage-contacts.py", line 92, in <module>
load_contacts ()
File "manage-contacts.py", line 61, in load_contacts
ab.addContact (contacts [k])
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 140,
in __call__
**keywords)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line
607, in call_blocking
message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException:
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "addContact" with
signature "s" on interface
"org.gnome.evolution.dataserver.addressbook.Book" doesn't exist
I have installed via opkg python-dbus per wiki instructions.
Thoughts?
Chris
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Try it from the terminal on the phone, or try: dbus-load python manage-contacts.py load <vCards.vcf I'm guessing on the last one as it sorts similar errors with gconftool-2 in _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Nah, the manage-contacts.py script does magic to avoid that need. On the other hand, I'm playing with Python and Dbus for something else (to disable suspend when you're talking on the phone), and I have similar unexpected errors on other Dbus interfaces. I'm still trying to debug that. Roland. -- Roland Mas Sauvez un arbre, tuez un castor. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
I'm currently working on a way to get my SQL address database into the phone and therefore making heavy use of the scripts mentioned here: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Import_Vcf_Contacts Thanks to the contributors so far, here's my part: - ssh/BT session: dbus-launch <script> doesn't seem to work, in fact the error message is even yet more misleading (getContactList with signature 's' and so on). Instead, the way of the manage-contacts.py script seems to work pretty well. It simply requires to add the following lines at the start of the program: ps = os.popen ('ps auxwwwwe | grep -m 1 DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS') l = ps.read () r = re.compile ('DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=(\S+)') m = r.search (l) a = m.expand ('\\1') os.environ ['DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS'] = a I would encourage to update the existing scripts with this mechanism if it prooves (remove-contacts, manage-contacts worked for me this way). In cases it still doesn't work, there's another alternative instead of using the moko terminal, described here: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Import_Sim_Contacts - unicode/UTF8 I managed to convert vcard fields into proper UTF-8 (from plain ASCII). But it seems to me that UTF-8 conversion is not well supported with the basic (python) set-up on the phone. I had to do this on my linux host. Also, the resulting characters were not correctly displayed in my case even though contacts import did not complain (any experience here whether display of e.g. german umlaute works?) I will post my SQL->phone script next days when it's finished (still working on extensions like mobile/work/email etc). Alex. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
To be honest, the main reason I wrote manage-contacts.py was to be able to edit contacts on my main computer :-) I'm frightened enough by the input method of the Freerunner, I don't even want to think No umlaute here, but I do have some French accented letters such as é and è and aven one æ, and they display fine. I even tried typing my Japanese teacher's name in Japanese, but apparently there's no Japanese-capable font in OM2007.2 so far. While I'm at it: it might be interesting setting a proper locale name in /etc/profile, so contacts are sorted according properly. I did that with "export LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8", so names starting with É sort among the names starting with E rather than at the very end. The backside of that is that agpsui tries to interpret gpsd's output as fr_FR, with its decimal separator set to a comma rather than a dot, and therefore wrong data comes out. But I suspect that's just a bug. Roland. -- Roland Mas /* Halley */ (Halley's comment.) _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have the same problem, and additionally, the dump option runs without error, but also without output. Any ideas? Regards Jeff -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://getfiregpg.org iD8DBQFIg4AnVDAgnE3XzJMRAqH6AKDXiSOCK+E363Lf0GRvlPfQidDrWwCbBo1g l/fF+S+9nZyHIc264yYXbgs= =pHkr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Strange. It still works here. You do have openmoko-contacts2 installed, right? You're not using ASU or Qtopia or something? Roland. -- Roland Mas Despite rumour, Death isn't cruel - merely terribly, terribly good at his job. -- in Sourcery (Terry Pratchett) _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
When I list the commands on the FR it shows openmoko-contacts, but when I opkg install openmoko-contacts2, it tells me I'm up to date. I'm using the 2007.2 build of 7/18, not ASU or qtopia. I'll do some digging around to see if dbus is active or other stuff before I try it again. I assume you meant dbus when you said daemon in your other reply. Chris _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
