quick edit: My script is almost done. SMS/MMS/Group chats are all bridged to matrix and I've been using it without issue for over a month now.
I just a couple things left to do and then I'll clean it up. Please give it a try!
https://gitlab.com/untidylamp/ofono-matrix-puppet


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I'm working on an app that will allow you to send/receive SMS and MMS messages from the web using Matrix/riot.im

here is the very first version with a really bad readme file. as of right now only SMSes work but I have the code for ofono to send/receive MMS. I just need to figure out how to send files to matrix and then put it in the script.




I'm not very good at programming but I'm learning. Hopefully someone else finds what I'm working on useful or maybe it will help them build a more reliable web texting app




I'm also interested in running a VoIP server on my phone so that I can use a VoIP app on another device to send/receive calls from my cell number without forwarding calls to a VoIP provider. That way I'll just leave my little server PinePhone at home on all the time but be able to do everything a phone can from any other device with a data connection. I have no idea where to start with this so I'll just be forwarding calls to my VoIP provider for now.

Does anybody else have extremely quiet speakers while running Manjaro? I have tried both firefox and chromium, along with a few different websites, but the speakers remain extremely quiet. My volume is turned up to full both on the websites' volume control buttons and in the system ui. Ideas anyone?

Hello, I´ve done a little script for common errors on UBports, specially useful for me on sound and modem. I hope you find it useful and improve it, I don´t know how to set the variable ip to the command ssh. I hope they solve soon this errors soon but in the meantime...


It´s on Spanish but:

1) WIFI RESET                          ...
2) ACTIVAR SIM                        Sim

3) ACTIVAR SONIDO                  Sound

4) ACTUALIZAR SISTEMA           System update

I am curious if it's possible have a remote power switch Vs using only the one on the board?  I've looked at the wiki and don't see anything obvious, but thought I'd ask and double check.

Have my Pinephone.  Modem reports -113 dBm but outside can be -70dBm.  I want to use the Pinephone on PagePlusCellular as 3G.  I currently use an Incredible 2 on cdma with an amplifier.  Since the cell tower is only a mile away but there's a hill blocking, I have a yagi antenna pointed 45° away and get signals to and from by bouncing off a hill in that direction.  I would be happy to buy an amplifier that can do Verizon 3G as PPC uses the Verizon network.  Can this be done?  Any recommendations appreciated.  I also have a 2 meter loop antenna that's no longer used from my amateur radio days if that could be any use.  Thanks.

soyrunner

Hello All,

I have written a short howto about getting pkgsrc framework setup on the Pinebookpro aarch64 Linux (Manjaro)
It is a great way how to build binary packages and compile everything from scratch, while keeping the original system libraries and binaries intact
and keeping the whole environment in /usr/pkg  an /usr/pkgsrc

- Howto https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2020/02/...ebook-pro/ 

Should be reproducible on the Debian native image, but I have only tested this on Manjaro

- for those unfamiliar with pkgsrc ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pkgsrc)

Hi all, not able to find similar reports on this forum I'm wondering if I'm the only one having this issue with the trackpad mouse pointer movement:

When I stop displacing my fingertop over the trackpad, the mouse pointer will not stop immediately. During one or two seconds (at most) it will continue to slow down to a halt, usually about 5 to 10 screen pixels further.

The same delay can be noticed when starting a slow (or short) movement. My finger is moving but the pointer remains at it's place, seemingly waiting for some minimal fingertop displacement before actually starting to move.

This all makes the finer mouse actions VERY hard. Trying to grab a window border (for resizing) for example is nearly impossible!

I did a firmware upgrade from https://github.com/ayufan-rock64/pineboo...rd-updater

I've tried all different touchpad settings (acceleration, sensitivity, threshold) and tinkered with synclient parameters as described on https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Pinebo...pad_tuning 

Also tried different OS images including Chromium from SD, all suffer the same touchpad issue.

Is there anything solution?

Hello everyone,
I've been fiddling with my PBP with the default debian desktop for a while now. I've met some problems because it appears the kernel used is for arm64 architecture, while the userspace is armhf (32-bit arm by default).
This makes hard to build certain software (e.g. buildroot, esp-idf, crosstool-ng...) because installers download the 64-bit version of the sources (following the architecture given by `uname -a`) which then cannot be compiled by the 32-bit gcc.
While trying to work around this limitation I'm afraid I botched my debian installation and now apt doesn't work.

I wanted to start clean again so I prepared an SD with Debian Desktop. I can successfully boot from it, but from there I expected to see instructions to move the installation to the eMMC.

How should I move the installation to the eMMC from an SD booted OS?

I spent an hour or two this weekend enabling the SPI NOR for use as a filesystem for MicroPython on the PineTime (this is how I plan to support persistent user-supplied code).

I couldn't make head or tail of the responses I was getting from the device until I ignored the entry page (https://www.pine64.org/pinetime/, 8.5MB of FLASH), the schematic (PM25LV512) and the wiki (MX25L6433F) and took a hi-res photo of my PineTime instead... With a bit of care... and photographs from multiple angles I have been able to read XT25F32B of my own device.

So... armed with this I've got things working nicely (main thing is that having only 4MB means the part doesn't implement can't use 4 byte addressing).

Just thought I'd post here to help future adventurers (and to encourage an update to the pinetime/ page linked to above). I'll tackle the wiki myself in a moment...

Hi,
where can I find the most complete mainline kernel tree (i.e. v5.5.2) git repository for the PinePhone for self-compilation?
linus/master is missing sun50i-a64-pinephone.dts.
BR & thanks.