Welcome to my carddav2fb wiki!

carddav2fb (CardDAV to FRITZ!Box) is a PHP based CardDAV client to transfer your contacts from a CardDAV server as a telephone book to your FRITZ!Box. As a cron job on your Linux system you can keep your Fritz!Box phonebook entries synchronized with the contacts of your address book(s).

The program is controlled via a configuration file (default: config.php) and additional arguments.

Here you find a collection of usefull hints. According to the fact that FRITZ!Box is a more or less a product usually used in German-speaking countries the following sites are only in German available.

Basics

• overview
• execute
• functional overview and comparison
• additional features
• update

Handling features

• phonebook features
  • synchronization of more than one telephone book
  • image upload
  • handling internal numbers
  • save phone numbers only availible on FRITZ!Box
• contact features
  • phone number sorting order
  • handling quick dial numbers
  • handling vanity numbers
  • additional central number with wildcard
• FRITZ!Fon features
  • background image on FRITZ!Fon shows assignment of names to quickdial keys
• other features
  • simulcast update IP phone adress books
  • simulcast update fax adress book
  • email notification about overwriten contacts

Operation recommendations

• cutomizing TR-064 access
• FRITZ!Box standard user
• location, file names of images and how to delete them
• additional tags in the phone book
• create a CRON job for regular uploads

CardDAV server specifics

• general hints to download method
• access to iCloud contacts
• groups in iCloud contacts
• access to T-Online contacts

Other selected FRITZ!Box know how

• extract phonebook from settings file
• bind local CardDAV server without valid certificate
• implement the FRITZ!Box SSL certificate
• CAPI in Windows registry
• usage FRITZ!Fax via VPN