Siemens Gigaset SL785 synchronising contacts with linux

[wimedel]

I bought a Siemens Gigaset SL785 telephone handset. The reason for buying this system was the supposed possiblility to synchronise the contacts in the handset with the contacts of the addressbook of an e-mail client.

To be honest: Siemens advertises only the possibility to synchronise with Outlook, using an USB-connection or Bluetooth. Siemens only distributes synchronising software for windows and mac. But I supposed that, having the facility of USB and Bluetooth, there would be a way to export a vcf-file or a csv-file to the handset from a linux-pc.

On internet I only found a script using obexftp with which it would be possible to export a vcf-file. That proofed my idea to be true that there had to be a way to synchronise with an address book on a linux pc. But I could not make this script working on my Mageia installation.

But I discovered that is was possible to establish a bluetooth connection between the handset and a pc with bluedevil. It was possible to send a csv-file tot the handset using this bluetooth connection.
The procedure is:
- Login as root;
- Scan on the pc using bluedevil the surroundings for recognising the handset;
- Exchange pins for establishing the connection;
- Send an appropriate csv-file (a csv-file in Outlook format) for filling or complementing the address book of the handset.

I make the appropriatie csv-files by exporting my google contacts in Outlook-format.

Until now I did not found a way to export the address-book from in the opposite direction (from the handset to the pc). But that is not a real problem. But I like to know a way to do the procedure as a normal user.

Wim

[doktor5000]

Where is it failing if you do it as a normal user?

[wimedel]

I must correct my first post.
1. You must use vcf-files instead of csv-files.
2. I managed to do the procedure as a normal user. To send a file to the handheld, the display of the handheld must have the idle status.

I like to mention that it is also possible to send a vcf-file directly from dolphin.
Having established a bluetooth connection with the handheld, put your mouse on the file you want to send, right click, a popup-menu opens, and choose the entry "Send via Bluetooth".

Wim