[OGo-Users] NHSD and Palm Syncing

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > Is there 1.1 version of Debian NHSD package that has all the necessary conduits
> > to make palm syncing work?  I haven't tested this in awhile since 1.0a, which
> > worked then.  Now that I have a new palm pilot, that can do network syncs and
> > wifi, I want to set this up again.  But there only seems to be a test conduit in
> > the latest package.
> Well, I made an error.  The Test conduit is commented out.  But the main conduit
> still does not work with my new Palm Pilot TX.  Is the Palm functionality broken
> at this point?  I tried copying the conduit from 1.0 to 1.1, and that doesn't work.

It is broken as a result of changes to current Palm firmware /
applications / database format.

http://bugzilla.opengroupware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1638
http://bugzilla.opengroupware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1811

This issue goes all the way down to the pilot-link libraries used to
interface with the Palm database format:
http://www.pilot-link.org/node/166 - "Add support for the new OS5 and
later PIM applications".  This may have been resolved by the pilot-link
package by this point but not everything has been modified up-stream
yet.

I think the better, and more modern/standardized, solution is to use the
Synthesis SyncML client for the Palm and the Funambol DS server with the
GroupDAV connector.

A new version of this was released just this morning -
http://mail.opengroupware.org/pipermail/groupdav/2006-December/000447.html
http://bionicmessage.net/funambol/index.html 

I've only tested the previous version (which only supported events,
unlike the current version) but it worked quite well.

This solution also works with Windows Mobile devices [the clear future
as Palm seems content to let its technology languish] as well as just
about everything else.

Discussion of GroupDAV sync belongs over on the groupdav@ list as it
isn't really OpenGroupware specific.
http://www.groupdav.org/mailinglist.html