Sender name in SMS messages

Jonathan Ryshpan jonrysh at pacbell.net
Thu Aug 25 15:28:18 BST 2022


On Thu, 2022-08-25 at 09:51 -0400, Simon Redman wrote:
> Is this something which used to work for you?
I have only just recently got kdeconnect to work, so no.

> Unfortunately I think something has broken here recently because I am
> no longer getting contacts either. The SMS app is in need of some love
> but I haven't been able to give it any recently.
> 
> If you look in ~/.local/share/kpeoplevcard, you should see a folder
> named like "{deviceId}-kdeconnect" which should contain .vcf files
> with your contacts' information. If this folder is here, unfortunately
> I think you're seeing the same behavior as I'm seeing and something
> will need to be fixed before phone numbers will resolve to contact
> names.
I do see a folder with a similar name, namely
~/.local/share/kpeoplevcard/kdeconnect-227c19483266f77d, which contains
a lot of .vcf files.

> On August 20, 2022 2:58:03 PM EDT, Jonathan Ryshpan
> <jonrysh at pacbell.net> wrote:
> > How can I get KdeConnect to query a contact list and print out a
> > human readable name for the sender rather than a phone number, e.g.
> >    Jon Doe: Got it, thanks
> > rather than
> >    +123-456-7890
> >    +123-456-7890: Got it, thanks.

-- 
Sincerely Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh at pacbell.net>

 Political language ... is designed to make lies 
 sound truthful and murder respectable, and to 
 give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
 -- George Orwell
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