I find it odd that there are essentially *zero* good and affordable solutions for push-to-talk systems.  Everyone just accepts crappy FRS quality since there's not really anything better available.

It would be amazing to have a simple dedicated device with a speaker, mic, 3.5mm port, a tiny display and menu button, and a push-to-talk key.

It could come out of the box preprogrammed with a few ESP-NOW based channels, and then allow you to add RTP multicast paging on a proper WiFi network(Which seems to be what the expensive SIP phones use).

The ESP32 can handle Opus compression, so there should be enough bandwidth for a few repeater hops.

If it was 18650 powered it should be able to last all day, so you could just leave a few around as repeaters, one hop is probably enough for 90% of things FRS is actually good for.


The same hardware could also connect to a smart voice assistant server, act as a wireless media streaming target, or be a wireless doorbell beeper for home assistant.


I've seen a bunch of projects like this, but nothing available as a mass produced, ready to use device.

Hi All, I've ran through this tut https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Ox64 and flashed my board. Along the way I enabled the i2c options in the buildroot menu but I don't see "/dev/i2c-0 " when booted. I also don't see i2c kernal msgs (not sure if there should be?). i2ctools is installed.
Wondering if anyone knows what the next step is from there? Is there a device tree that needs to be updated?
Thanks

I'm sure everybody has heard about the backdoor built into xz version.
All my computers are xz version 5.4.5
I just checked my Pine Phone Pro for xz version and it is 5.6.1
5.6.0. and up are infected.
heads up folks because that is the infected version.
I found this on Arch Linux Phosh.
Check your phones immediately because as I understand this your phone can be remotely accessed.
To check your version in a terminal type xz --version

Does anyone have any binaries atinout for mobian on pinephone 1.2?

https://atinout.sourceforge.net/ does not have precompiled binaries for debian/mobian and attempting to compile from source results in a segmentation fault error.

Had my Pinebuds for a year. Along with my other pine stuff I am pretty happy.
However I only use the SuperANC setting because the other two settings (ANC and Ambient) sound pretty terrible, really bassy and mushy. With SuperANC they sound pretty good.
The SuperANC is very quiet though compared to the other two. 
Clearly the hardware is capable of delivering really good sound, but it isn't quiet there.
I am wondering if there has been any work on the firmware to try out different sounds. I can't really see any relevant work in the github, but them I am not really familiar with this project.

Thanks.

Hi,

I just received my PineTab2 and am trying to get started with it. My first problem is trying to get internet connectivity so that I can update the software. I currently have danctnix 6.3.0.-2-danctnix on the device.

Any suggestions for the best way to proceed?

Thanks!

If I put the slightest pressure or bump the phone, it completely freezes the OS and I've got to reboot. I've determine this acute pressure is right around the CPU area. I've adjusted the torque on the backplate screws, and more is better than less, but it still happens. Phone has NEVER been dropped.

Right now, the phone is basically used for a tethered wifi NIC for the downstairs desktop since moving it much renders it painfully inoperable.

Not really looking for a solution (unless you have one), but just wonder if anyone else has experienced this.

Today I broke my Pinephone screen

So I browsed https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PinePh...the_screen to find a link to https://pine64.com/product-category/smar...are-parts/

which unfortunately 404...

Do Pine64 still sell pinephone screens?

my power button does not turn off my rockpro64 anymore - i need to unplug to turn off.  the unit is only a few weeks old.  how can i troubleshoot this?
thanks

Arch Linux ARM Danctnix + Phosh (GNOME/Purism Calls application).

I tried to change the volume the microphone has during calls as per two sources (1) (2):

/usr/share/alsa/ucm2/PinePhonePro/VoiceCall.conf