SailfishOS and Deutschlandticket, does it work?

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I am thinking about buying the smartphone version of the german Deutschlandticket.

I wonder if anybody here did have any experience with using this smartphone ticket with their sailfish device.

If so I would be very glad if you shared your experience here!

Thanks in Advance,

Alexander

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It works perfect. I always have DB Navigator, Fahrplan as natve App and Deutschlandticket as Android App installed…

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If you buy it via DB app it should work - like all other tickets in the DB navigator. If it is an eticket, you can use the native app “Pass Viewer” to open it.

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I loaded my digital ticket into passviewer, but it is not accepted. The qr code also looks different from same ticket in fwallet, which is accepted

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Two QR Codes do not have to look the same for the same payload, for example they could use different error correction settings.

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That might be, but one was readable for the ticket control and the other wasn’t

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Is it possible to download the dt-ticket and import it into a sailfish passviewer app? How?

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The passview app automatically scans your download folder for pkpass files

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And the DB app stores the deutschlandticket as pkpass-file? If I had to search manually, where should I look?

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No, it depends from the way the issuer distributes the ticket. I get mine from hvv via my employer, and there the variant for apple handies produces a downloadable pkpass file. Might be totally different for other issuers

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Order the Deutschland-Ticket by your local Verkehrsverbund is always a good idea. Works great for me. Hint: You can buy the D-Ticket from your local Verkehrsverbund as a real physical card, this has also some pros. If you found a dealer for the card you can add a information about this dealer in this list. Hint #2: The dealer will get some money for every saled D-Ticket. Maybe you love to see this money by a local dealer?

I remember to read about some flaws about some other dealer but I forgot the details. Please check on your own. I found also a lawsuit against the DB app Navigator (see here)

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well, nice hint. but i explicitly asked for possible problems with the app versions of the deutschland ticket in sailfish os.

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so this ticket then is a normal qr code and doesn’t need nfc, if i understand you correctly?

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I think @joboe said that either you buy it in db navigator (Android App) - then you can use it within the db navigator (Android App) OR you can buy it from some different issuer (e.g. local Verkehrsverbund) where it MIGHT be an eTicket which could be used via Pass Viewer (native app).

But for my ticket bought from hvv the eTicket could not be validated by ticket control despite being seemingly correctly displayed in Pass Viewer.

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Personally, I would prefer any time to buy the ticket from my local Verkehrsverbund (and not hvv) as a physical card, but then I would not get reduced ticket price from my employer

Edit: Here https://digitalcourage.de/blog/2025/aufruf-deutschlandticket-ohne-app-zwang you can find soon^TM a list of VerkehrsverbĂĽnde who provide physical tickets

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Yes, that’s what I meant. I personally use the DB Navigator.

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