Hi musicians (or speakers, or...)



this is mostly a quick note for those who may think about getting such a gadget for playing sheet music.




Although the PineNote may be a little to small it works for lyrics and chord sheets (I tweak the pages to get more on one screen).



And it's good to have the backlight, e.g. for a dark stage. Unfortunately I find the flickering of the backlight distracting. But in the lower positions (not at 100% backlight) it works.




The PineNote (Debian) with KOReader works perfectly fine with following page turners:

- Airturn PED 500 https://www.thomann.co.uk/airturn_ped_500.htm


- Airturn BT500S-2 https://www.thomann.co.uk/airturn_bt500s_2.htm


- Joyo JSP-01 https://www.thomann.co.uk/joyo_jsp_01_pa..._pedal.htm






I had them all and they are connecting fine and instantly via bluetooth with the PN.


Page turning works out of the box with all of them in KOReader (Attention: it starts in "scrolling" mode, but you most likely want the "page flipping" mode).





I didn't like the PED500 - it's very compact, usb-c, but the haptic feedback wasn't good for me.





The Airturn BT500S and JSP-01 both are nice, but have their pros/cons:




Airturn BT500S:


- Made in USA (might be a pro argument?!)


- expensive (~80Euro)


- no USB-C (that was the main reason I decided against it. It has a round power jack, like you would find in a E-Guitar pedal case)

- has a plastic shell, but still looks/feels nice and sturdy


- the switches have a good feedback - like those of a normal effect pedal


- switching of page turner mode works by holding a button. Not obvious at first, but it works.




JSP-01:



- I decided for this one because of the price (<30Euro), the surprisingly good quality and USB-C power

- Made in China (might be a con?!)

- although it's all plastic it feels well manufactured

- the feedback of the plastic flaps is good enough

- changing the mode is easy and clear






But as I said they both work well with KOReader:



- in a multi-page document (and if you are in page-flipping mode) the right switch flips to the next and the left switch flips to the previous page.



- If you configure KOReader to go to the next file at the end of the document, you can click through a whole set of songs/documents if the filenames are numbered in a specific order (I tried with collections, but I wasn't able to find "go to next file in collection" or something like it.)



- the only things that doesn't work (or at least I didn't find out how) is to go back to the previous documents. (I put the "go back" function in one edge of the screen and configured it to go to the last position. Thats a workaround to at least go back to the previous song in case it's needed. But it doesn't work with the left pedal and you can only "go back" to the "last used" document - it will not cycle back to the first document in your set list)



App-wise: Making notes is not completely straightforward. Okular can be used as a workaround, to make an edit fast. But Okular annotations may be cropped/cut off by KOReader.

A solid workflow was:

- I put the original PDF-files in one folder (together with the original odt files from which I exported the PDFs with libreoffice)

- Editing them with Xournalpp and:

    - saving the Xournalpp files in a separate xopp folder

    - I export the annotated PDF files in a separate folder where I number the filenames like they occur on the setlist







If anyone has a more convenient approach/idea on how to setup documents, or other apps to use - I'd be glad to read about it.





adios

I find KDE plasma quite slow. I've tried XFCE and got a much smoother experience. Unfortunately it requires a lot of work to get a comfy environment.

It's my first experience on KDE and I have not found similar posts on the forum (sorry if it does). So here is a thread to share tips how to improve the KDE plasma experience, what service can be disabled / removed ?

Shall I disable accessibility, kde connect and so on ? (how ?)

the keyboard used to work, then suddenly for no reason (no updates, configuration changes, or physical damage) the altg, alt, and fn keys stopped working, namely, nothing happens when they are combined with regular keys. I tried setxkbmap -option lv3:ralt_switch and 'https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/3438 ', also disabled the kernel module, but nothing helped. If you hold down altg, alt, fn and 2/3/5, then 235 is entered, which means that the keys give a signal. I tried on the latest versions of arch/pmos linux sxmo/phosh

Hi everybody!
Can I ask you something
Is the brave heart fully functional?
Does the pine64 installer utility provide the operating system for the brave heart version including Android vanilla images?
Thanks !

I have been using Libretranslate for a while as a webapp on my Pinephone Pro running Mobian Trixie, the free service seems to have been discontinued but I need translation as an everyday driver phone tool.
I found Vivaldi browser has an allegedly privacy oriented translation service included as a tool in the browser so I went to the website to see if it was compatible with the PP.  https://vivaldi.com/download/
The answer is yes they have an arm and arm64 version (deb and rpm) available for DL(mobian take the arm64 deb) which installs and runs on the PP, the UI is a bit smashed but everything has worked for me so far, as long as you are OK with using rotation a bit.
Is it really so private?  IDK there is this reddit discussion thread https://redlib.perennialte.ch/r/browsers..._security/
I have only done a small bit of testing the translation tool and tweaking of settings.  This Chromium based browser company is based in Europe, is supposedly a pro privacy employee owned company which only keeps back the add-on components from being all FOSS, built in translation, ad-blocker, other interesting vivaldi social media and messaging attempts, browser sync; it seems to work for the most part so you can also test out Vivaldi if you like.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivaldi_(web_browser)

FYI I went through and quickly disabled the main google attached search and call-home settings that I am familiar with, there may be more, but you can set dudkduckgo as a search engine and I think the ublock origin can be side loaded as well as the unofficial non-google chrome webstore app.

Hello all,

I want to use my PinePhone Pro as a rover in a RTKLIB setup. Todo so, I have some questions:

1. Is it correct, that the Pinephone Pro GPS sensor can provide GPS raw data?
2. If yes, what is the format? In RTKLIB I can select rtcm2, rtcm3, oem4, oem3, ubx, ss2, hemis, skytraq, gw10, javad, sp3
3. On mobian the device should be ttyUSB1, correct? I have configured it with baudrate 115200. There are 2 additional options in RTKLIB inpstr-path config: 8:n:1:off Does anyone know, what does that mean and if it is correct for the PinePhone Pro?

By the way: What GPS chip is used in the phone?

Friends

I have my Pinetime unboxed, and charged

I have Gadget Bridge from fdroid.  I think it is bridged.  

What now?

Is there any comprehensive documentation anywhere?

For example:  How do I find out how to set the time?

cheers
Worik

I've been working on porting FreeBSD to the PinePhone Pro and happy to
report that I am releasing a developer build that you can try out:                                                   
                                                                     
https://codeberg.org/Honeyguide/freebsd-...o#releases         
                                                                     
Please test and report back! Any feedback would be helpful.                                                     
                                                                     
If you are a FreeBSD developer, the image contains the kernel source, 
build tools, vim, and an example driver that you can use to start     
implementing or porting drivers directly on-device.

Hi.

I'm confused about this board. Some website said it has HDMI but I can't seem to verify that.

Is there HDMI?

Thanks!

I've recently got my PinePhone with the keyboard case.

Everything was going well at first, but I’m now noticing that some keys don’t register consistently, especially the spacebar and a few on the top row. Sometimes I have to press harder than usual.

I'm running postmarketOS and haven’t done much customization beyond updates.

Is this a known issue with the keyboard hardware, or should I be looking into software configs or firmware?