GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 636934
HBCI setup not working in aqbanking4.2.4 on Mac (cannot enter server address)
Last modified: 2018-06-29 22:49:09 UTC
The AqBanking wizard fails to set up an HBCI account, giving the error message "Die angegebene Server-Adresse "" ist keine gültige Adresse eines Internet-Servers. Liegt vielleicht ein Tippfehler vor? Bitte korrigieren Sie die Server-Adresse.", even though a valid server address was entered in the dialog.
The message says, you left the field Server-Adresse empty (""). You must enter the server address of your bank like "https://meine.bank.de/unterverzeichnis" Have a look at http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/AqBanking or http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/De/HBCI and the related links. If that doesn't help, send an anonymized version of the AqBanking wizard log or screenshot of your settings dialog.
The server field in the dialog is *not* empty (in my case set to "hbci.commerzbank.de"). Also, I am using an RDH key, not PIN/TAN, so a URL would probably be wrong in this field. To me this looks like this bug in aqbanking: https://devel.aqbanking.de/trac/aqbanking/ticket/88 I am not sure what the more practical solution would be: either downgrade to an aqbanking version based on Qt3 instead of Qt4, or upgrade to aqbanking 5 (if that is compatible with the current GnuCash code).
Philipp, thanks for your research.
Oops. In brief Martin suggests in ticket/88, to use aqbanking5 instead of aqbanking4. John, which are we bundling for MacOS, Christian which for Windows?
I've been bundling aq4.2.4. I tried 5 locally to see if I could get the Gtk wizard to work, but it has display issues, so I set it aside for after Gnucash 2.4. I can try aq5.0.1 with Qt and if it looks OK bundle it in 2.4 (which looks like we're going to release it this weekend).
I don't remember whether aqbanking5 still contains a setup wizard with qt4, though. I tried to check whether aqbanking5 can be used *without* qt4, but the gtk parts of it don't like nice enough to replace everything we have so far. But my last check is already a few months ago.
Created attachment 176632 [details] The Gtk Aqbanking wizard opening dialog This shows that on a Mac, the dialog is too small and has no resizer (as is normal for dialogs).
Created attachment 176633 [details] A Gtk Aqbanking wizard data entry page But the bigger problem is that all of the entry fields have invisible-char set to true.
So the Gtk wizard isn't usable on Macs with quartz. It appears that Christian has it set up so that if one has aqbanking 5 there is only the Gtk wizard available.
Please try a recent release (2.4.4.1 or 2.4.5 when it's release sometime in the next day or so). AqBanking is now version 5.0.2 and it's using the Gtk UI.
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