gnokii and the iPod

[Daniele Forsi]

The iPod Nano (and other iPods) can show contacts in VCF format if you 
put each vcard in a separate file in /mnt/ipod/Contacts/

What about adding an option to --getphonebook to save contacts in 
separate files?
This way you just need to mount the iPod and use gnokii, no other 
program would be needed to sync the contacts.

I admit that people usually don't buy iPod's to carry around their 
phonebooks :-)

The idea is that you give a base-name (with possibly a path) and gnokii 
creates
base-name0.vcf
base-name1.vcf
base-name2.vcf
...
AFAIK the name is not important and one can use a different base-name 
for SM and ME phonebook if MT is not supported.

The format output by gnokii is compatible except that the iPod has 4 
type of numbers (this may depend on firmware revision):

tel;type=home:<<<home phone>>>
tel;type=work:<<<work phone>>>
tel;type=cell:<<<cell phone>>>
tel;type=fax:<<<fax number>>>

all othe types are displayed as "work"; this is the case when your phone 
has the simple phonebook with a single number that gnokii prints as 
TEL;VOICE:

There might be issues with char encodings. I see that in gtkpod (which 
prompted me to experiment) they use iconv for the encoding and an awk 
script to split the vcards in sync-ldif.sh but it doens't like the ldif 
made by gnokii becasue it needs familyname.

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Daniele