I am using Mobian so I get to see daily progress of the OS side with every update.
I also see a few people on the forums writing apps for the pinephone but they seem to be somewhat orphaned and the path to at least the Mobian repos is a very conservative one(that is good for a stable OS).
I feel like there is room for a unified community contrib or testing repo that has an autobuilder similar to what we had with Nokia Maemo community.
With a few tweaks to the autobuilder most pine distros could have packages built with deps and it would just be a matter of adding it to the deb or rpm sources.
I feel like this would get more exposure for new devs and make it easier for the stable OS devs to browse for vetted apps to fill out their repositories.
Since this proposed hub would be all pinephone the apps could be built for the targeted hardware.
As an example https://gitlab.com/lgtrombetta/pinephone-compass/ a great pinephone specific compass app where instead of upgrading form repo we have to hand build and hand uninstall to upgrade, this should be on a contrib or joint testing repo.
Maemo had a good program where they were throwing out all kinds of prizes for Maemo app development, but Nokia was a huge wealthy company Pine64 is not, I think even special forum flair, maybe front of the line opportunities for new hardware, and recognition as well as having the app on the unified repo would be enough to get more momentum behind pinephone specific app development where users can easily access these apps.
A desktop sized website similar to F-droid with quick install QR codes could also make browsing available software easier for both Pine owners and people curious about the project.

Is anyone using Thunderbird on Mobian?
I'd like to copy across my profile from a PC and wondering whether it might work.
Also wondering where to put the profile under Linux.
Tnx

I was browsing hackaday and came across this:
https://hackaday.io/project/18033-raspbe...zero-prism

I've been wanting a pair of smart glasses since I saw Google glass, and went on to look at some of the DIY prototypes to see how feasible it would be to make a basic one myself. Based on the DIY versions I've seen, it's not difficult to produce something that will have some basic functionality. Additionally, the hackaday project linked above has done the best job making it compact.

Unlike the hackaday project, I'm not proposing any HDMI input or connecting it to a single board computer. Rather, I'm thinking of a product more along the lines of a pinetime - connecting to your smartphone or computer and displaying notifications, turn by turn directions, the time, weather, etc. It would be a simple, small device that clips onto the arm of a pair of glasses, with a small prism extending in-front of one of the user's eyes.  The actual device is pretty simple, and should actually be pretty straightforward to manufacture. It would comprise of a small (< 0.5") screen, a lens, a prism, a microcontroller and a battery. I personally would be against including a camera.

Now the project linked above used a screen similar to this:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/392497361566

That would be awesome, but it would need a beefier microcontroller, and would making programming more difficult, and increase the price by quite a lot.

The best "simple" screen I've been able to find is this:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/293291361583

Cheap, small but no frills. It would be fine for basic notifications and display though.

That got me thinking, at the end of the day the device is very similar to the pinetime. Using the same microcontroller as the pinetime would greatly simplify development, as the smartphone/computer apps already exist, the firmware from the pinetime could be ported over, and that would bring along with it a bootloader, OTA support, mature bluetooth support, app framework, etc.

This would be a unique device, with no similar devices to compete with. A low end version would not be difficult to produce, and the great strides made with the pinetime would allow this project to hit the ground running.

Ok so I just setup my pinephone and i setup the pin code  (keep in mind I do remember it) so when it finished setting up it told me to login with my pin ofc so I did but it says that it's incorrect even though I put it in right and I remember it. I did this multiple times and nothing worked. How do I fix this ?

I removed KDE-Plasma on my  Pinebook Pro and replaced it with Suckless DWM tiling window manager.

I realized that without Plasma I don't have an interface for connecting to bluetooth, and in alsamixer I was unable to activate the speakers. I need help getting audio working on my pinebook with Manjaro ARM on DWM.

I purchased the PineTime smart watch from www.fabtolab.com, a seller in India, as recommended by people on the PineTime matrix server. I purchased this watch on 15th of July, and received it on 19th of July. The day I got it, I tried to press the button to see if the watch came with any battery, nothing happened, so I assumed the battery was dead. Then I put it on charging, the screen turned on, I saw the PineTime logo, and I left it there for about 5-10 mins. I then again checked to see if got charged enough to be usable. I press the button and nothing happens. I tried a couple of times but no luck. Then I asked on the PineTime matrix server to see if someone could help me. So people on the server replied saying that it could be the bug that was in older firmware, that the watch freezes in its sleep, and only way to wake it up again, is to let the battery drain and the watch to reset it self. So I waited 5-6 days, and finally on Sunday 24th of July, it turned on again. And as suggested by the matrix server, I didn't let the watch screen go to sleep, and connected it to my phone, and flashed the new firmware. Everything was successful at this point, only when I went navigating around the watch's interface, I noticed I could not go back out of some menu's as the button does nothing when presses, short or long presses. So I think the button is broken or damaged.

I posted a RMA request on the seller's site, and they asked me to post this here, so people can confirm that this is  a manufacturing defect.

I posted the question on Matrix server the same day I received the product, there must be some history of chat, that can be used to verify this.

I got a PinePhone  "Manjaro" a few months ago. As I was not ready to use it I thought I should charge the battery in the mean time.
Now that I have a SIM to use I put it in the phone. Now the screen comes up asking for a "passcode" number which i never set in the first place.
How do I reset this or what else do I do to get past this problem?
Thanks - Crawford.

OSM Scout Server and Pure Maps were pretty easy to install via flathub. Just open the links in a browser, tap install and open with the software app. It takes a while, but works a charm.
OSM Scout Server for offline maps: https://www.flathub.org/apps/details/io....coutServer
Pure Maps navigation and maps UI: https://www.flathub.org/apps/details/io....s.PureMaps

My issue is that I can't seem to get Pure Maps to use my GPS data. It has Online, Offline, and Mixed profiles. Ideally I would completely avoid using network location tracking and only use the GPS. This is both for privacy reasons but also because the VPN on my phone throws the network tracking completely off. I tried digging around to see if there was something I had to configure on the modem or some such, but I don't know very much about it and couldn't find any straight forward manner of getting the GPS working with Pure Maps or even gnome maps. I am open to using a different interface for navigation. If someone has the GPS working with a different application, I'm willing to switch.

Hello,
i tested the simulator from https://lupyuen.github.io/pinetime-rust-.../simulator
but i cant get an success.

If i use Clock.cpp (corrected case in paths), there is a error with date.h

when i change in simulate.yml to WacthFaceDigital.cpp or WacthFaceAnalog.cpp, the bul druns, but the display in emscripten doesn't change. Now i renamed WatchFaceDigital.cpp to Clock.cpp, but the build hangs again on date.h

Has anybody used the Simulator with actual Infinitime version (1.3.0) and could tell me how to get this to run?

I am looking to link up Axolotl with my Signal Desktop client and it requires scanning the QR code and copy/pasting the scanned info into Axolotl. Megapixels shows the code but it is hard to make out, does anyone know how I could save the text from that?