2.0.1 on FC5 trying online banking in the US

[David Reiser]

On Sep 19, 2006, at 10:30 PM, Dawning Sky wrote:

> On 9/19/06, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>> Yeah, OFX Direct Connect doesn't work until libofx-0.8.2.  So if  
>> you're
>> using 0.8.0 then no, it wont work.
>>
>> Maybe you could convince Bill to build FC5 packages of 0.8.2?
>>
>
> I compiled and installed libofx 0.8.2 and aqbanking 2.1.0, still the
> same error pops up "error executing backend's queue", when I try to
> download balance or transactions from Citi Cards or Fidelity, which I
> have confirmed to work with aqbanking using ofx.py.  Do I need to
> recompile GnuCash too?  Or aqbanking 2.1.0 is too old?  I know 2.2.1
> has been released, but there are some dependency problems on my FC5.

aqbanking 2.1.0 was released in June. It should be new enough. I was  
having good success with aqbanking and OFXDirectConnect prior to mid  
May in the 1.9.x series of GnuCash, and using libofx from cvs that  
had the OFXDC fix in it.

I have a citicard account that works in gnucash.

In the aqbanking setup wizard for the Citi account, setting up a User  
in the General Tab (window says "User Configuration"):
the User Name can be anything
I have my Citicards web login name in both the User ID and Customer  
ID fields (I'm pretty sure now that it is the UserID that gets sent  
in the ofx dialog, but when I was first setting them up I wasn't sure)

In Bank Settings:
Country is set to United States of America
Bank ID is 24909 (though I don't think this matters for credit card  
accounts)

In the OFX tab
FID is 24909
ORG is Citigroup
Broker ID is blank

Connection settings:
server url: https://secureofx2.bankhost.com/citi/cgi-forte/ofx_rt? 
servicename=ofx_rt&pagename=ofx

And I have the Supports Account List Download button clicked

At this point, you can click the "Get Accounts" button, aqbanking  
will ask you for your citicard PIN, log onto the ofx server, and  
request  a list of your accounts from Citi. This works much better  
than trying to define both a User and one or more Accounts.

It sounds like you have gotten as far as linking an aqbanking account  
with a gnucash register in the aqHBCI wizard, so I won't go through  
that.

It has been a while since I struggled with this, but your problem may  
be that you have something slightly amiss in the account description  
that is causing the connection to fail. If you get the user  
information right (Clicking Get Accounts in the aqbanking setup  
reports success), then you know aqbanking has set the right things up  
in the account description for that "User".


>
> Other banks, such as Discover Card, refuse to give transactions when I
> connect to them using ofx.py.  Inside the .ofx file it says
> unsupported application or version.

The wiki has the answer to this one: http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/ 
FAQ#Q:_Can_I_import_my_.28USA.29_Discover_credit-card_info.3F
You have to change two lines in ofx.py so that the ofx server thinks  
you're using a newer version of Quicken.

>
> Thanks for all your guys' help.  I hope Bill can build some RPMs  
> for us too.
>
> DS

Dave
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David Reiser
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