With the hibiscus-server running on (let’s say) your current machine at port 8080 (AKA
https://localhost:8080), you have a few rather useful services available:
I would love to see this running on my Synology NAS at home with plenty of Internet bandwith available, so that I can get my bank account transactions updated over the Internet a few times each day. (Update: For whatever reason hibiscus/jameica do not run as expected on my NAS. I ran out of time investigating this.)
These days Synology does not supply Java on their devices – I assume, they do not want to get officially bothered with Java difficulties on their devices. But still here I found a description of how to install Oracle Java SE on a Synology NAS:
With the “https://localhost:8080/webadmin/rest/hibiscus/konto/…” REST services listed above I get hold off account data rather, rather easily like this:
$ curl –sslv3 –insecure
–user jameica:PASSWORD
https://localhost:8080/webadmin/rest/hibiscus/konto/list
Now I prefer developing software using Perl, and I will make use of the JSON lists in Perl, and that should be rather easy. I think, I am going to abandon my web-scraping scripts in Perl, once all this is in place. Web-scraping banking web-sites is a rather tedious business, whereas HBCI/FinTS is a confirmed banking standard in this country (Germany), and I consider the Hibiscus Server as a rather easy way to deal with the HBCI Moloch AKA FinTS.
…:
update 2014-04-23:
- after my initial start with hibiscus-server-2.4.0 today I decided to upgrade to hibiscus-server-2.6.5
- downloaded the .zip
- I shut down the running hibiscus-server
- I renamed the current hibiscus-server to hibiscus-server-2.4.0 – I would have to fall back to this state in case …
- unpacked hibiscus-server-2.6.5.zip, resulting in a new hibiscus-server/
- …/create_snapshot.sh …/hibiscus-server/cfg/de.willuhn.jameica.hbci.rmi.HBCIDBService.properties; removed the original, so that we would operate on an H2 db
- on the NAS I moved all the .zip and .gz of …/.jameica/ to an “uncle” directory
- removed the old .zip and .gz from $HOME/.jameica/
- and I took a time-stamped snapshot of $HOME/.jameica/
- on the NAS I moved that time-snapshot to an “uncle” directory as well
- locally I removed that time-snapshot
- started …/hibiscus-server/jameicaserver.sh again
- same results, *.json looks fine, just/almost as before – that’s rather fine – whatever the banks had changed in the meantime – no changes on my side
(To be continued…)