Brainstorm

SyncML support in Maemo5

Posted on 2009-12-13 18:58 UTC by Uwe Kaminski. Status: In development, milestone: Fremantle, Categories: Internet & Networking.

Maemo5 does not support SyncML out of the box. SyncML is a standard used to synchronize clients with a SyncML server. There are open source server software (like Funambol provides) and a lot of clients for nearly every plattform as you can see here. The idea is to have also a solution to synchronize Contacts, calendar entries, tasks and notes (and maybe more stuff) from the N900 (Maemo5) to a SyncML server.

Services (free and paid) offering SyncML can be found here.

Thread in talk.maemo.org to discuss: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=37034

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Selected solutions for this brainstorm

Solution #1: Make syncevolution ready for maemo5

Posted on 2009-12-13 18:58 UTC by Uwe Kaminski.

There is already a very good syncml solution for maemo4 called syncevolution:

Syncevolution uses the evolution backend data format like maemo does it. Patrick Ohly the developer of syncevolution already asked for maintainers in the maemo community in the syncevolution blog and in the maemo-developers mailing list. It really would be great to find someone who is willing to maintain this project for maemo because Partick don't has the time any longer. Update: Ove Kaaven will maintain a version for maemo. See this announcment on syncevolution.org.

What should be done is:

Make syncevolution work on maemo5 (for contacts)
- Done: See this mail in maemo-developer mailinglist for details
Create a user friendly graphical interface to configure syncevolution
- Done: A really nice to use gui was created for Maemo5. The package is called syncevolution-frontend.
extend syncevolution's features to calendar, notes and tasks
- Done: See this mail in maemo-developer mailinglist for details
Create a version which could be published in maemo-extras-testing repository
- Done: syncevolution is available in maemo-extras-devel and in extras-testing
Provide a solution to sync via USB or bluetooth to non Windows/Outlook desktops or Non-Nokia-Phones
- This also is possible using syncevolution 1.0. This also works using the Nokia PC Suite.

Please also have a look to the wiki page containing everything about sync for maemo and feel free to add your knowledge:

http://wiki.maemo.org/Sync

Not selected solutions for this brainstorm

Solution #2: Extend Build In SyncML

Posted on 2009-12-16 19:54 UTC by Max Mikh.

N900 already have build in SyncML client and server. Unfortunately it is Nokia closed code. It has support only for BlueTooth. Probably necessary just to extend it for work over http. Simbian S60 has SyncML too and it is work with Funambol and other servers....