PalmAgent -- synchronizing data in my palm with the rest of the Web

Source code management is migrating to palmagent hg repository .

palmagent is a collection of tools for synchronizing data from mobile devices to other parts of the Web, for exploring issues with GRDDL, microformats, and paper-trail style synchronization.

See also: advogato diary, e.g. Using hCard, XSLT, and RDF to sync the family cellphones of 26 Jun 2005, and bookmarks tagged mobile, rdf, gtd, python,

Features I use these days (summer 2005):

• Get data from a danger sidekick account via their XMLRPC interface and get incremental updates:

   python dangerSync.py --prod --user=USER --passwd=PASSWD>,session-creds
   python dangerSync.py --prod --session=`cat ,session-creds` --get contact
   python dangerSync.py --prod --session=`cat ,session-creds` --get event
   python dangerSync.py --prod --session=`cat ,session-creds` --get note*
   

• dump XMLRPC data to RDF:

   dangerSync.py --xml event>event.rdf
   dangerSync.py --xml contact>contact.rdf
   

• convert contact data (from Work category) to hCard and then to vCard format:

   xsltproc --novalid --stringparam Category Work --output work.html asHCard.xsl contact.rdf
   xsltproc --novalid --output work.vcf xhtml2vcard.xsl work.html
   

• make printed mailing labels:

   cwm contact.rdf contactLabels.n3 --filter=contactLabels.n3 --data --rdf >contactLabels.rdf
   perl jobieLabels.pl contactLabels.rdf>contactLabels.ps
   

• dump just events that affect the future:

   dangerSync.py --newer 20050515>plan.rdf
   

• convert danger RDF vocabulary to .ics format via RDF Calendar vocabulary:

   cwm plan.rdf danger.n3 --think=danger2ical.n3 --rdf --with 'http://majo@calendar.sidekick.dngr.com/event?id='>event-mixed.rdf
   python toIcal.py <event-mixed.rdf >event.ics
   

*Known issue: incremental updates to note DB results in:

 XMLRPCxmlrpclib.Fault: <Fault 0: 'org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcException: org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcException: APPX: Can\'t call method "read_only" on an undefined value at //danger/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Danger/DBP.pm line 982.\n'>

work-around: just remove the note DB file and get all the notes again.

Some of the code here was developed back around 2001 when I used a palmpilot. Notes on Palm OS features, issues, and requirements are kept separate now.