aqHBCI Wizard help file?

[David Reiser]

On Jan 26, 2006, at 8:15 PM, Don Levey wrote:

> Is there any sort of help file, FAQ, or other documentation for the  
> aqHBCI
> Wizard?  I did indeed try the aqhcbi-qt-tools package and was able  
> to start
> the wizard, but now (in addition to needing the bank code and server
> address, neither of which my bank seems to be willing to provide) I  
> am asked
> for both a User ID and a Customer ID (but no password).  I'm trying  
> to see
> what these are...
>
>  -Don

I've been experimenting. I believe the User ID is the ID the bank  
expects you to log in with in the online banking function, it is  
usually the same as your web login ID (but not always -- ameritrade  
ofx login is not my web login). At the moment, I don't think customer  
ID matters.

The password is requested by a pop up dialog when you initiate a  
session.

I'm currently experimenting in gnucash2 with aqbanking 1.9.x, so I  
don't know what differences exist with earlier aqbanking with gnucash  
 >= 1.8.10 or .11. (for whatever reason, my attempts to get hbci  
working on the 1.8 gnucash didn't work; but I'm having better luck  
with gnucash2). There are still some bugs to work out, but things are  
really looking up (thanks Martin and Christian!).

As to needing the bank code and server, you have to look up that in  
some of the online banking sleuthing results. I doubt that the front  
line customer service people even know the info. Try: http:// 
www.jongsma.org/gc/ for a howto on getting web addresses of ofx  
servers. I recommend trying the data in one of the older data stores  
on that site. But you may have to run the script to get newer  
information. For instance Chase has just moved all its quicken online  
stuff to a new server (looks to me like they're using the FirstUSA  
infrastructure that they acquired via the BankOne purchase...).

Good luck.
--
David Reiser
dbreiser at earthlink.net