Hi all,

I am a blind Linux user and developer. I want to create my own smartwatch and was looking around and found the pinetime.
I have the following queries.
1. Can I update the pinetime without interacting with the screen? The watch does not appear to have any accessibility options at all. I did read the getting started section and that is where I found references to interacting with the touch screen of the watch.
2. Can I connect a speaker to the pinetime? I am not referring to a Bluetooth speaker but something small that I can enclose in the watch case. My idea is to have synthetic speech on the watch.

Regards
Pranav

Hello, I am considering a PineBook Pro as a laptop for basic web browsing and watching videos. I have seen lots of conflicting information about youtube playback, with some saying its unusable and others saying it is pretty decent. What can I expect in that regard? It would not be my primary machine so performance is not that important, but it would need to have good battery life (>6 hours) and be able to play at least 1080p youtube smoothly for me to consider it.

Hello, after updating Mobian three days ago wifi and bluetooth ceased to exist.  I have the convergence dongle so was still able to connect to net.  Pinephone does not have a SIM at this time.  I have reflashed with Postmarket Phosh, Postmarket Smxo, (both are snappy but did not help with the wifi), and am now sitting with Manjaro Phosh.  Hitting the wifi icon does nothing in Manjaro.  Hitting it in Mobian would toggle but would not find any network.  Manjaro just sits there greyed out.  I am not familiar with Arch commands but have done the following:
inxi -n results in wlan0 state: down
nmcli g (and r) results WIFI  enabled
ip a results in wlan0 DOWN

I have toggled the hardware micro DIP switch at the back on the Pinephone.

Bluetooth in Mobian and Postmarket said to insert a dongle.  It's the same chip and switch, but I would just like wifi up.  Do I have a wifi brick?

Any ideas anyone?

While not officially supported, OPNsense is now able to be built for the RockPro64 using the OPNsense tools - https://github.com/opnsense/tools


I've been using it with a 4 port PCI NIC for about a week now and it's been great.


If interested, more info can be found here: https://one8three.xyz/2022/05/25/OPNsens...Pro64.html

Hello,

I usually use PBP with Manjaro and everything works great.  I recently flashed Kali on SD card but for some reason it's not connecting to wifi.  I'm still very new to Linux.  I tried searching online for the answer but can't seem to find it.
I ran airmon-ng command and this is what I got:

phy0      wlan0     brcmfmac        unable to detect for sdio 0x02d0:0xa9bf


Does anyone know what's wrong and how I can connect my wifi?

Hello,

if you want to install ttyescape on manjaro, this should get the job done : https://framagit.org/lolgzs/ttyescape_manjaro_pinephone

Today I had was on a call using the Pinephone and a second call came in (a scam/spam call). What happened is the call I was on was disconnected and the vibration motor came on - and stayed on, would not turn off. Even when the legit guy called back and I picked up the vibration motor just kept going. It did not shut off until the phone was rebooted.

So... when this happens is there some way the vibration can be turned off short of rebooting the phone? (I'm using the "002" factory firmware if that makes a difference.)

Hi,

since I find Firefox hard to use with the current UI, I tried the preinstalled Gnome Web, which has a way better UI.

But some sites render strange, like Facebook. It looks like 10 years ago. I'm not that deep into this, so is there a way to get the normal look as in any other browser or are there restrictions to the browser, that can't be bypassed?

Thanks!

I'm wondering how many people have upgraded from Pinephone to Pinephone Pro.
If you are one of those people, was the extra expense worth it?
What were the main benefits?
What were the main disappointments?
For instance, is there an overheating problem?
Thanks.

We have some progress with phone calls. Orientation issues are being solved. Gallery app have now editor. There will be two conference talks: devconf.cz and installfest.cz

Details are in our monthly report https://nemomobile.net/pages/nemomobile-in-may-2022/