Or apple wallet for that matter. I’m pretty new to the concept of a digital wallet, and I’m guessing that if I eschew these google and apple offerings then I’m not really doing much beyond basically a folder called ‘passes’ but nonetheless a dedicated app that only opens pdfs and images and ‘passes’ rather than anything else still seems helpful.

Unfortunately so far I’ve now been offered the opportunity to add things to a wallet twice in 2 days and both times I’m provided only with a link to add to a google wallet or an apple wallet, I don’t get .pkpass or .espass files. Those links, whether loaded on a desktop or an android smartphone don’t directly link to a file in any way so there seems to be no obvious way to bypass being asked to sign in and use google’s wallet. So far I’ve had to download a PDF, to add in to Pass Android but it only imported 1 of 2 pages so I had to then manually make 2 pdfs out of it at which point, if I’m keeping the pdf locally anyway, I’m not sure it was really easier even if the app is convenient access. I did manage to use Pass Android to make my own barcode to get around the fact that the membership card I was offered only had the google wallet links.

Is there a way to actually make use of these FOSS wallets? Because I’m not sure what they really do if it’s so hard to actually get a hold of pass files.

  • einkorn@feddit.org
    10·
    1 day ago

    I am using PassAndroid

    Most of the time these ‘Add to X Wallet’ buttons lead you to an .pkpass File which you can import. The app doesn’t look very nice but it does the job for me.

    • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.mlOP
      5·
      1 day ago

      Thanks, that’s actually the one I’m using but I mistakenly called it “Android Pass” originally. I’ve edited my post now to reflect this correction. Unfortuantely, at least in the only 2 situations I’ve ever tried to use a wallet which was now twice in days, I was receiving emails from organisations, one with an auto club membership digital card and one with a ticket to an event, on both occasions, I was given a link to add to my google wallet or a link to add my apple wallet and neither link actually leads to a pkpass file or any downloadable file. In the case of one of them at least I saw it links to some unrelated company that I guess they teamed up with for distributing these passes called urban air ship. I assume if you go ahead an sign-in it eventually goes on to give you a pkpass file or something similar that a google wallet app deals with but I obviously wasn’t going to do that. I was wondering if there was any commonly known way to just get the pkpass file from links like those since both seemed to work in much the same way and I assume somewhere at the end of the hoops you jump through you get an actual file.

        • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.mlOP
          2·
          6 hours ago

          that’s what I’d hoped, and was the first thing I tried, but it just at some point figured out I was on android and redirected to a google sign-in. On desktop it was some useless link that essentially brought me back to the page where the link to add to apple wallet started on.

          • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
            1·
            5 hours ago

            it may be because of the browser’s user agent. Changing that may help, to make of believe that you are on an apple device

    • brisk@aussie.zone
      2·
      13 hours ago

      Catima can also handle pkpass (Apple wallet) files now, although last I checked it chokes on “pkpasses”, the zipped collective version