Hi all,

I'm a coding ignoramous who was bowled over reading about Wasp OS and some of the effectively live-coding videos on youtube.  Reminded me of my brother teaching himself to code on a Psion. I felt like the device is simple enough not to intimidate me (and for me to really grok the device and the code), so I bought one.  If I ever get around to learning to code it'll probably be for my PineTime!  My hats off to all the engineers, both hardware and 'software', including the folks at home learning-on and noodling-away-at these.  The work you publish even on forums like this is an inspiration.

Used my pinetime in the pool today.  Swipe inputs v difficult.  I wished I had a jog dial to scroll through options.  I imagine to be cheap and waterproof it would just be a magnetometer of some kind at the edge of the circuit board.  The edge of the case would have a knob which was, internally, a disc studded with tiny magnets, so that turning it would be detected by the magnetometer along with the direction of the turning.  If the screen was on (IE I was interacting with the watch), then it would listen for the turning of the knob.

Were it to be on a depressible button, behind a silicone cap, then the jog dial could also be used as a push-button.

I dream of a future where my phone tells my watch when I'm in work (GPS &/or wifi network recognition) and the applets accessible from the main screen are ones for dealing with work emergencies, as opposed to driving (car bluetooth recognition, when I might want a watch-face play/pause button or some such), or in the pool (touchscreen off, button and jogdial input only, and ready access to the metronome app for pacing and an app that sums up the duration my arms flail about in the pool to help me log it on my phone)... I'm sure others would have other suggestions!

Well, nowt like a half-baked idea to make the mind turn over.  Maybe the PCB just needs the magnetometer adjacent the strap connection, and someone makes an aftermarket dial baked into the watchstrap.  Hopefully something I could submit for consideration in case a PineTime Mk II is ever considered.

Yours with thanks,
DB

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Does anyone know if the app from Victron Energy works on the PinePhone Pro?

Victron makes devices for solar energy and the app connects to their devices and their database of daily statistics.
Thanks

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Given that the Rock64 PoE is out of stock, I was wondering whether the Raspberry Pi4 PoE Hat is compatible with Rock 64? I thought it was, but am having trouble verifying. 

Incidentally, is there any idea with the Rock64 PoE will be back in stock?

I am aware of "external" PoE splitters, but they are not my first choice.

When I got this phone I tried to use a nano to micro sim converter and put the try in wrong side up and could not pull it back out.
I found this video and it worked like a charm to free the try without bending any of the pins or taking the phone apart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vrntitwm1U

I created my own OpenVPN, it works in Manjaro, in mikrotiks, ASUS router and so on, but I can't use it in Pinephone Pro. The connection is establishing and the route is changing (I see it by mtr) but Firefox (and Chromium) continues using the default route without OpenVPN. I have tried to create the MASQUERADE rule in iptables but nothing was changed. What do I need to do? Did anyone face up the same problem?

Hi all,

Nice to meet you, however I must first apologise and that's not because I'm late to the party but that I'm having trouble with my PPP.

I was distro-hopping and destroied all the data on the EMMC. I had installed Towboot previously and could easily rewrite the device. When I try to get into Mask ROM mode (holding vol. up) the led goes blue for a very short period, as if entering the mode, before changing to red, flashing and while the phone pulses four times.

I can get the PPP into Mask ROM mode by holding RE, it's identified on the bus by lsusb but the device is no longer showing up when probed by 'blkid.' I've tried to boot from sd-card but it doesn't seem to recognise it, I recently replaced the sd-sim slot due to broken pins, so that could be on me.

Any help, guidance or just another opinion will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
David

I've noticed that the DC LED stays illuminated after I've disconnected the DC barrel power completely, but only if the serial port is still attached (just GND, TX, and RX via a USB Serial adapter.)

Are these pins also leaking power as mentioned here for the A64+? I use the EXP pins on my A64+ plus but they are absent on the RockPro64.

I intend to leave a serial connection attached to this board permanently so just want to ensure it's not going to cause damage long-term or if there's any way I can prevent it.

Greetings, new PPP mobian user here!

I'd like to add a custom keyboard layout to include the Shift Button on my keyboard but I can't find where the .yaml layouts are being saved.
Documentation says ~/.local/share/squeekboard/keyboards/ but I don't see a squeekboard file. Note I don't know much.

I thought maybe squeekboard is not installed and tried to built from git. Got stuck in meson _build. I started to download all dependencies it was asking for. Then it asked for gnome so I thought I am doing something wrong here. I've disabled gnome and enabled phosh back again.

Also, I see a squeekboard file in /usr/bin but can't open it. Is that from my attempt to install it?


A thank you to all the developers.

Hi guys, I got my Pinecil v2 a few days ago; just transplanted the guts into the clear case and thought I'd try updating to the latest firmware. Running into a problem.

I'm running Windows 7 x64 - it won't recognize the Pinecil in flashing mode/won't install a driver. In Device Manager it shows up as "CDC Virtual ComPort" and says device drivers are not installed.

I followed the instructions to the letter: held down the "-" button when connecting and held it for 15s after, along with all the PowerShell and blisp instructions. Executing blisp results in "Device not found". I tried three different cables (one generic, and two Anker USB-A to USB-C. All three work fine flashing my backup TS101) and every USB port on the laptop.

Guidance would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

P.S. When I hook it up without holding "-", it does boot up with the screen active as expected, and Device Manager shows it under USB Controllers as "Unknown Device", but also says "No drivers are installed for this device."