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  My desktop
Posted by: Emilio - 04-24-2022, 01:47 PM - Forum: PinePhone Pro Software - No Replies

My desktop



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  Questions
Posted by: JohnWMahaffey - 04-24-2022, 12:49 PM - Forum: General - Replies (1)

When I tried to update Manjaro I get an error; 
fail to prepare transaction

conflicting dependencies: -tip and power -profiles-daemon are in conflict

Any suggestions? 

I can't get the sd or USB drives to mount or be recognized.


  PostmarketOS on RockPro64
Posted by: publiclewdness - 04-24-2022, 11:53 AM - Forum: Linux on RockPro64 - No Replies

I was going to try out PostmarketOS on my RockPro64 today. Burned the image to an SD and it boots fine. It doesn't have a DE installed by default, which is fine, so I installed Mate. Question is what command do I use to get it to use Mate instead of booting into a console ?


  Phone wont turn on with any SD Card inserted
Posted by: Ausfaller - 04-24-2022, 11:40 AM - Forum: PinePhone Pro Software - Replies (3)

Forgive me if this has already been addressed but I have been searching everywhere for a week or so and haven't found a solution that was provided that works in my case.

Got my PinePhone Pro Explorer Edition and have been excited to try it outside of some funkiness as to be expected with a phone in this state of its like. The frustrating thing is everyone apparently can easily swap SD cards with new distros and explore! I can not.

I installed balenaEtcher and downloaded Ubports/Arch Phosh/Jump drive to various SD Cards. Tried this process from a Windows machine and also a Linux machine. When inserted into the PinePhone Pro the device doesn't boot/light up/vibrate or give any indication it is being turned on.

It appears to be turning on because to get the PinePhone Pro to turn on after the SD card is removed I have to remove/reseat the battery then press the power button.

When the card is inserted after the phone is booted I can run "sudo lsblk" and I can see that any of the test drives are available.


Any help would be much appreciated.


  Checking Keyboard Charging Status
Posted by: dgiffin - 04-23-2022, 03:40 AM - Forum: PinePhone Pro Accessories - No Replies

So I have my PPP in the keyboard case, and the keyboard is working :-)

I have connected the keyboard to a power supply.

The battery indicator at the top right of the menu bar is showing not charging (63%).

"cat /sys/class/power_supply/battery/status" shows Discharging
"cat /sys/class/power_supply/battery/capacity" shows 63

"cat /sys/class/power_supply/ip5xxx-charger/status" shows Charging
"cat /sys/class/power_supply/ip5xxx-charger/capacity" shows 81

So my assumption is that the keyboard case is charging itself while the phone is running on it's internal battery - would that be correct?


Lightbulb NUT (Network UPS Tools) compatibility
Posted by: Scary Guy - 04-22-2022, 08:12 PM - Forum: General - No Replies

My train of thought here is that if a device has a battery then by definition it has a UPS built in. I'd like to get this running on the PinePhone but I figure it applies to almost all products with a battery. I also think it'd be cool to see them over on the list at https://networkupstools.org/stable-hcl.html as well.

My goal is to get NUT-Monitor on my main Linux box to show my phone's battery information. I just have no clue about how to do that, so any help or advice is appreciated.

Possibly using the dummy-ups "driver" to read the battery info directly might work. Though I don't know where that information is stored or how it would even parse that data.

I'm using Postmarket OS PhoSh though and have NUT installed on that. I can at least make it work as a client, which is still cool.


  How can I record video on a Pinephone?
Posted by: kk22 - 04-22-2022, 07:01 PM - Forum: General Discussion on PinePhone - Replies (23)

I'd like to be able to take a short maybe 10 second video using the Pinephone's camera. There seem to have been a few individuals who figured out how to do this, but they used very different methods and none of them seem to be currently functional:

Reddit post by UJC_theguy, who was able to use ffmpeg to record a video. Trying his method (with /dev/video2 since that's what my camera shows up as), I get the following:

Code:
[video4linux2,v4l2 @ 0xffff9790b670] ioctl(VIDIOC_STREAMON): Broken pipe
/dev/video2: Broken pipe


Reddit post by Atticus83, who used gstreamer instead of ffmpeg. Trying his method the _jprocess script fails with
Code:
WARNING: erroneous pipeline: no element "x264enc"

Python script from Martijn Braam, which uses ffmpeg to do the recording. Modified to use /dev/video2, it gives the following:
Code:
  libavutil      56. 70.100 / 56. 70.100
  libavcodec     58.134.100 / 58.134.100
  libavformat    58. 76.100 / 58. 76.100
  libavdevice    58. 13.100 / 58. 13.100
  libavfilter     7.110.100 /  7.110.100
  libavresample   4.  0.  0 /  4.  0.  0
  libswscale      5.  9.100 /  5.  9.100
  libswresample   3.  9.100 /  3.  9.100
  libpostproc    55.  9.100 / 55.  9.100
[video4linux2,v4l2 @ 0xffffae633670] The driver changed the time per frame from 1/20 to 1/15
[video4linux2,v4l2 @ 0xffffae633670] ioctl(VIDIOC_STREAMON): Broken pipe
/dev/video2: Broken pipe

So how can I record video if these don't work?

Edit: Atticus83's method actually does work, but the "ugly" gstreamer plugins are needed. When I wrote this post I thought I had already installed them, but upon trying to install all of the gst-plugins-* packages in pmOS, gst-plugins-ugly got installed and now it works. If anyone knows of a better method though, please post it here.


  WIRELESS CHARGING ADD-ON CASE
Posted by: Fred Zyphal - 04-22-2022, 10:47 AM - Forum: General Discussion on PinePhone - Replies (4)

So ... I ordered two of the WIRELESS CHARGING ADD-ON CASE, one for my original PinePhone and one for my Pro.

My "Qi" compliant charging base has an indicator light that tells me something has successfully engaged the field, both of the charging cases will light the light, and I can measure 5VDC on a couple of the pins of the "flexible fanout" (that's what we call the Kapton with traces in the aerospace industry), however neither of the phones will charge.

Am I doing something wrong?  My concern is that the flexible fanout is not indexed, not held down, it just sort of flops around in the breeze and may not be engaging the pogo pins correctly.

Is anybody else seeing anything like this?


  !! Pinecil is dead after 3 times using it, don't buy this crap...
Posted by: bbeeast - 04-22-2022, 06:58 AM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinecil - Replies (2)

Hi

I bought a Pinecil64 after seeing JB's video... 

After I received it, it worked 3-4 times, and the same day it died: No more screen, no reaction when I plug various LiPo battery or USB, doesn't heat up... 
The only thing that work is when I plug to my PC I still can uptade it lmao 

That's annoying to have bought such a bad product...


  My Conky config file for Phosh
Posted by: lat - 04-21-2022, 12:16 PM - Forum: PinePhone Pro Software - No Replies

I created some Conky eye candy for myself and wanted to share.  A screenshot is attached, and here's my
~/.conkyrc

Code:
conky.config = {
    alignment = 'top_left',
    background = false,
    border_width = 1,
    cpu_avg_samples = 2,
    default_color = 'yellow',
    default_outline_color = 'white',
    default_shade_color = 'white',
    double_buffer = true,
    draw_borders = false,
    draw_graph_borders = true,
    draw_outline = false,
    draw_shades = false,
    extra_newline = false,
    font = 'Liberation Mono:size=10',
    gap_x = 8,
    gap_y = 40,
    minimum_height = 734,
    minimum_width = 394,
    maximum_height = 734,
    maximum_width = 394,
    net_avg_samples = 2,
    no_buffers = true,
    out_to_console = false,
    out_to_ncurses = false,
    out_to_stderr = false,
    out_to_x = true,
    own_window = true,
    own_window_class = 'Conky',
    own_window_type = 'desktop',
    show_graph_range = false,
    show_graph_scale = false,
    stippled_borders = 0,
    update_interval = 1.0,
    uppercase = false,
    use_spacer = 'none',
    use_xft = true,
}

conky.text = [[
${color 8888ff}${cpugraph cpu1 59,59} ${cpugraph cpu2 59,59} ${cpugraph cpu3 59,59} ${cpugraph cpu4 59,59} ${cpugraph cpu5 59,59} ${cpugraph cpu6 59,59}
${cpu cpu0}%${tab 16}cpu $freq MHz $acpitemp°C${tab 90}${cpubar 6}
$color$memperc%${tab 16}ram${tab 36}of $memmax${tab 90}${color 888800}${membar 6}
$color$swapperc%${tab 16}swap${tab 36}of $swapmax${tab 90}${color 888800}${swapbar 6}
${color ffffff}${fs_free /mnt/emc}${tab 36}${color bbbbbb}emc free${tab 90}${color 666666}${fs_bar 6 /mnt/emc}
${color ffffff}${fs_free /}${tab 36}${color bbbbbb}sd free${tab 90}${color 666666}${fs_bar 6 /}
$hr
${color ffffff}$processes ${color grey}processes${tab 48}cpu%  ram%          ${color ffffff}$running_threads ${color grey}threads
${color ffffff}${top name 1}${color grey}${top cpu 1}${top mem 1}
${top name 2}${top cpu 2}${top mem 2}
${top name 3}${top cpu 3}${top mem 3}
${top name 4}${top cpu 4}${top mem 4}
${color 666666}$hr
${color 880000}Upload Speed (10 Mbps max value)       1min    0
${color ff0000}${upspeedgraph   wlan0 59,384 100000000 -l}
${color 00bb00}${downspeedgraph wlan0 59,384 100000000 -l}
${color ff0000}port${tab 24}ip${tab 90}host               ${tcp_portmon 32768 65535 count} out
${tcp_portmon 32768 65535 rport 0}${tab 24}${tcp_portmon 32768 65535 rip 0}${tab 90}${tcp_portmon 32768 65535 rhost 0}
${tcp_portmon 32768 65535 rport 1}${tab 24}${tcp_portmon 32768 65535 rip 1}${tab 90}${tcp_portmon 32768 65535 rhost 1}
${tcp_portmon 32768 65535 rport 2}${tab 24}${tcp_portmon 32768 65535 rip 2}${tab 90}${tcp_portmon 32768 65535 rhost 2}
${tcp_portmon 32768 65535 rport 3}${tab 24}${tcp_portmon 32768 65535 rip 3}${tab 90}${tcp_portmon 32768 65535 rhost 3}

${color 00ff00}port${tab 24}ip${tab 90}host               ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 count} in
${tcp_portmon 1 32767 rport 0}${tab 24}${tcp_portmon 1 32767 rip 0}${tab 90}${tcp_portmon 1 32767 rhost 0}
${tcp_portmon 1 32767 rport 1}${tab 24}${tcp_portmon 1 32767 rip 1}${tab 90}${tcp_portmon 1 32767 rhost 1}
${tcp_portmon 1 32767 rport 2}${tab 24}${tcp_portmon 1 32767 rip 2}${tab 90}${tcp_portmon 1 32767 rhost 2}
${tcp_portmon 1 32767 rport 3}${tab 24}${tcp_portmon 1 32767 rip 3}${tab 90}${tcp_portmon 1 32767 rhost 3}
${color 666666}$hr
$color${wireless_link_qual_perc wlan0}% ${color aaaa00}wifi link quality${tab 108}$color${wireless_bitrate wlan0} ${color aaaa00}bitrate
${color aaaa00}Uploaded  Downloaded${tab 108}$color$uptime_short ${color aaaa00}uptime
$color${totalup wlan0}  ${totaldown wlan0}${tab 108}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 count}${if_existing /sys/class/net/wlan0/operstate No network!}${color #ff0000} down${endif} ${color aaaa00}tcp connections
${color 666666}$hr
]]

It's optimized for Phosh with 175% magnification in Gnome Settings (I wonder why the Settings give only coarse values of 100%, 125%, 150%, 175%, 200% - I'd prefer to be able to fine tune screen magnification).
It works best in Portrait mode.
If rendering gets affected, I just kill conky and restart - takes a second to do (I placed Conky in Phosh's Favorites).

I'm gradually moving towards an all-Wayland setup, so I wonder how the X-based Conky will transition there if at all.

Appreciate any responses!



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