January 31, 2009, 10:07 pm
Recently I acquired a HTC Touch HD, and in order to connect it to my eGroupWare installation, I purchased the Synthesis SyncML client to do the necessary translation. Now, Charlotte’s SonyEricsson has a built in SyncML client (which I’ll be playing with when back in the UK), but Microsoft didn’t see fit to provide SyncML capability on Windows Mobile 6.1. Anyway, life goes on.
Synthesis has trouble passing telephone numbers onto eGroupWare. I think eGW is at fault for this, so I’ve filed a bug. In the meantime, I’ve attached a small patch file that maps the Synthesis fields to what I think are the correect Vcal fields. Just apply it to /addressbook/inc/class.addressbook_vcal.inc.php and things should start working. If they don’t… you know where to edit 
And before anyone complains, I am neither a PHP programmer or an experienced patcher. This is pretty much my first patch file…
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<Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ‘TEL;CELL;VOICE;X-Synthesis-Ref1′ => array(‘tel_cell_private’), // Private cell
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<Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ‘TEL;HOME;VOICE;X-Synthesis-Ref1′ => array(‘tel_home’), // Home telephone
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<Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ‘TEL;WORK;VOICE;X-Synthesis-Ref1′ => array(‘tel_work’), // Work telephone
January 24, 2009, 11:58 pm
January 4, 2009, 10:13 pm
Last week I ‘accidentally’ bought a Cisco 7911 phone on Ebay. My bid was low, the device was missing a few bits, but I still thought I wouldn’t get it.
Suffice to say… I’ve just written this piece on how to load the SIP firmware onto a Cisco 7911 phone. The procedures are covered elsewhere, but I thought I could compress it into a format that’s slightly easier to understand. Hope it makes sense.
Whilst I’m at it, if anyone can email me a working SIP based cnf.xml file, it would be greatly appreciated. Getting the firmware onto the phone is easy… configuring it for Asterisk seems to be a completely different ballgame.
January 4, 2009, 10:07 pm
It’s been a busy few days, whilst I’ve had some time off. The Land Rover is progressing, slowly but surely. Bill has come up with a list of things that need done and/or purchased, and I’ve started making it happen. The roof has been loosened off all around the Land Rover, in order to lift the front of the roof up and slide the bulkhead and windscreen upwards and outwards. This also requires all the wiring to be disconnected, steering column, cabin heating system, and the like. So far I have the floorbox and footwell floor out (from a week or so ago), and I got the heater matrix disconnected and removed today. The coming week will see the wiring labelled and disconnected, and then we should be really getting somewhere. Also on the cards for the next 8 weeks is the purchase and assembly of a new glazed and ready-to-go door top, and associated bottom. This will accompany my other new door down to the folks that are doing the chassis swap.
The TR6 has been victim of procrastination and indecision on my part. I finally made my mind up today, and have decided to get hold of a completely new rocker shaft, arms, springs, and bits. The current one is usable, with some TLC and gentle driving. But for the sake of 90 quid, and a few hours work, it’ll put my mind at ease when driving in the mountains around Europe. The carburretion willalready be skewiff up there, I’ll have enough stuff to worry about. The top end oil feed kit will also make things run a bit smoother for the new parts too.
To cap it all off, the ESC for my model plane lost some of the magic smoke, and the motor is playing up. The local shop has taken it back and is waiting for an engineer to have a look at it. On a whim, I bought a USB cable for my transmitter, so I could hook it into the computer for some training applications. The Futaba trainer socket is loose and intermittent, and the T/X is 1 month beyond the warranty. Magic.