KDE Connect - About matching contacts

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Hallo Community!
One of the features of KDE Connect is the Matching of contacts between Smartphone and KDE-Desktop.
How do you get this matching?
Do you need a command?
Does it run automatically?
Does it run eventually only with the default google contact apps (no secure data)?
Anyway I cannot detect until now - after years using KDE Connect - no contacts matching.

Every help would be very appreciated!

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Hello,
My configuration :
Fairphone 4 with IodeOS. Contact app : com.android. contact or other. No Google account.
Addressbook on cloud : zaclys
Kdeconnect can see thé contacts on my phone.
Did you set the good permissions on you phone ?

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Hello alfred07,

thank you for dividing your experience!

Unfortunately I can’t afford the expense for a Fairphone, but I think, it does not depend on the smartphone brand, if KDE Contact is able to match contacts.

Yes, on PC and Smartphone I set KDE Connect to:

  • browse data each other
  • match contacts
  • send and receive files
  • permits other tools, which are not important in this case.

A question to you:
What do you mean with “Kdeconnect can see thé contacts on my phone”? How are they seen?
Can KDE Connect open the contact app on your phone?

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It was just for context. Indeed, it does not depend on the smartphone brand.

I mean, what the PC (via kdeconnect) is able to do on the phone.

I don’t believe it. On the PC, on the kdeconnect icon in the taskbar, you can see :

  • Share files
  • Make my phone ring
  • Browse this device
  • SMS message
    If you want to send a SMS, you can see the names of the contacts on the SMS messages already in progress. And if you want to create a SMS, when you search for a contact, you can see the contacts created on the phone.
5

The same on my system!
Phone from KDE-Calendar is possible too.
But no contacts syncing.

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I’m seeing “Match Contacts” only on the KDE Connect App running on an Android pocket telephone.

  • No “Match Contacts” on the PC’s KDE Connect icon.
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On a PC, this option is in the settings of KDEconnect. Once you have the connection between phone and PC.
You have to enable this option on the PC AND the phone

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What is your distro ? Version ?

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Same here on this system – Contacts enabled – no matching contacts on PC …

Operating System: openSUSE Leap 15.6
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.11
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0
Qt Version: 5.15.12
Kernel Version: 6.4.0-150600.23.17-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with Radeon Vega Graphics
Memory: 29.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Vega 11 Graphics
Manufacturer: ASUS