* Install dependencies
# Build time
- apt-get install valac libglib2.0-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libgee-dev libgtk2.0-dev libwnck-dev libdevkit-power-gobject-dev
+ apt-get install valac libglib2.0-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libgee-dev libgtk2.0-dev \
+ libwnck-dev libdevkit-power-gobject-dev \
+ libomhacks-dev liblua5.1-dev
# Runtime
apt-get install devicekit-power
* Alarms
It is possible to set an alarm, which will be shown in the alarm window. When
- the alarm expires, the phone wakes up if it is suspended, and zavai vibrates
- for 5 seconds.
+ the alarm expires, the phone wakes up if it is suspended, and zavai vibrates,
+ turns on baclight, shows a big ACK button and flashes the AUX led for 30
+ seconds.
- It is planned to use the AUX button to acknowledge the alarm and stop the
- vibration; when this will happen, vibration can go on for more than 5 seconds.
+ You can use the big button on screen or the AUX button to acknowledge the
+ alarm and stop all the attention-seeking activities.
When I'll implement some audio playing infrastructure, I'll implement playing
an audio file as well.
- Also missing are a popup that tells that an alarm is ringing, and a notifier
- for unacknowledged popups.
+ Alarms (acknowledged or not) are logged in "~/.zavai/log-alarm/". Still
+ missing, howerver, is a way to show that an alarm rang and noone noticed.
Patches welcome.
- Details: the alarms are scheduled with at(1). Please see omhacks for simple
- suspend hooks that will wake up the phone to run scheduled at jobs.
+ Details: the alarms are scheduled with at(1): they stay scheduled even if
+ zavai is restarted, and you can see them with "atq". Please see omhacks for
+ simple suspend hooks that will wake up the phone to run scheduled at jobs.
* Calendar
- interface zavai with a proper calendar system, without making the interface
harder to use (if you can).
+ * GSM
+
+ If you have a pin, add 'sim_pin = "1234"' to ~/.zavai/config
+
+ Don't start frameworkd at boot. Get rid of fso-usaged from your system (it
+ will be started by dbus when frameworkd starts, if it's there).
+
+ Now you can use zavai to turn on GSM, including powering up the antenna and
+ providing the PIN if required by the SIM.
+
+ It does not currently do anything else beside turning things on. It is useful,
+ however, to make GSM services available to simple scripts like SMS or contact
+ list dump tools.
+
+
Stability / design
Zavai currently focuses on the interface side, trying to make it easy for me
http://git.freesmartphone.org/?p=specs.git;a=blob_plain;f=html/index.html;hb=HEAD
* Features to add:
+ - log
+ - write data to disk as log happens (to have at least partial logs if power
+ is cut)
+ - more detailed GPX data (dop, elev..)
+ - message (structured) (json?)
+ - turn on/off gsm
+ + start frameworkd as a subprocess, configured to only do phone
+ + go through the dbus motions of turning on this and that, and entering PIN
+ hardcoded in zavai config
+ - GSM status on main screen (with messages while coming online, and
+ operator, power and so on)
+ - log and refuse incoming calls and messages
+ - alarm
+ - play sound at alarm trigger
+ - leave expired alarm on screen until acknowledged
+ (alarm status icon that also brings to alarm menu)
+ - remember alarm names (on request, maybe with an add feature) and how
+ often they are triggered, and show them most frequent first
+ - show active alarms and allow to delete them
+ - audio notes
+ - record audio notes, logging start and stop so it gets an associated GPX
+ - shortcut icon in main screen
+ - check gobject introspection and dynamic loading
+ - there could be a basic loader core that just dynamically loads bits as
+ available/needed. Only the battery icon and calendar can be loaded on a
+ laptop, while on the moko one can also load the power menu.
+ Different bits can effectively work as plugins, to be there or not.
+ Alternative plugins can be loaded based on different technologies, too (a
+ gpsd satellite monitor, or a fso satellite monitor).
+ - zavai does not look good in landscape mode
+ - replace menus with a widget taking a list of actions, which then lays
+ them out according to the screen size
- set backlight with Randr (xrandr --prop shows "Backlight: 4 (0x00000004) range: (0,15)")
+ and xbacklight uses it
+ (note: the property is not available on the freerunner atm, it would be only
+ for desktop systems, to avoid chowning the device under /sys/something)
- volume control in power menu "Amp Spk"
(-> learn/test libalsamixer something)
/usr/share/vala/vapi/alsa.vapi
- lua functions to read things
- zavai-calendar as a separate app
- zavai-contacts as a separate app
- - alarm
- - vibrate at alarm trigger
- - play sound at alarm trigger
- - acknowledge alarms with AUX button
- - then, vibrate and play sound for longer
- - popup that tells that an alarm is ringing
- - leave expired alarm on screen until acknowledged
- (alarm status icon that also brings to alarm menu)
- - remember alarm names (on request, maybe with an add feature) and how
- often they are triggered, and show them most frequent first
- - remember unexpired alarms persistently (again, a table in sqlite?) so
- that they can be reinstated if zavai is restarted
- - show active alarms and allow to delete them
- - work without ogpsd
- + power on/off the gps and start/stop gpsd
- + set to keep the GPS on during suspend
- - use the gpsd protocol to know if there is a fix or not
- - suspend/resume hooks to put the GPS into low power mode
- - next30: don't update if not shown currently on the notebook
- - gtk_calendar_set_detail_func
+ - calendar
+ - next30: don't update if not shown currently on the notebook
+ - gtk_calendar_set_detail_func
+ - GPS FixNow mode for sleeping
- GSM power and network
- link to open SHR-dialer
- icon to show if there are new messages
- GPX waypoint using AUX button
- GPX + Audio track
- track EPV (and similar) in gpx and kill trackpoints with bad accuracy
- - Audio note
- - shortcut icon in main screen
- - Toggle wireless
- - turn on/off chip
- - start/stop wicd
- - start/stop wicd-client
- Simple wireless scanner (code from guessnet, or minimal wicd client)
- Suspend phone if not calling and gps is not on and backlight is not on
(maybe with idle notifier?)
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