(08-25-2025, 02:51 PM)Jite Wrote: What app/programme are you using for the alarm clock that works from suspend?
In terms of mapping I tend to use either osmin or mepo.
I can see you are on mobian. Have you tried danctnix arch linux arm?
the ppp is good for having a more 'stable' distro on say the emmc and then having another distro on various sd cards (I do tend to use towboot for this purpose).
For alarms, the standard Gnome Clock app works for me from suspend (on Mobian). Unfortunately this isn't working for calendar reminders. I have not tried danctnix although I see it mentioned a lot and that it works well, mainly because Mobian is working really well for me and I now have a dev environment setup so that I can fix/patch things. So far all updates have worked for me smoothly. I have Mobian installed to emmc and I've been trying other OS's from SD card, so I'll give danctnix a try as well.
Here are more of my notes from daily driving PPP with Mobian + Phosh:
- Calendar reminders don't make any notification tone even though I cranked up volume and set tones everywhere.
- Calendar reminders don't wake from suspend (needs to implement the RTC wakeup like Clock does for alarms)
- Need a spam filter for SMS that works by regex or keywords, e.g. "Reply STOP"
- There is a "Do Not Disturb" toggle, but no idea what it does, as it doesn't let me set automatic schedules, ring only for contacts, etc.
- There doesn't appear to be a separate volume control for media vs notifications, so notifications are usually too soft.
- I cannot find a nice mobile-enabled app that simply lets me browse my Music directory, then I can click a song, and it will play that song and all the rest in that directory. Should also then remember where it was if I close it and re-open it. Like Vinyl on Android. Currently using Clementine, but it's not mobile optimized. Every music player assumes I have nice ID3 tags for everything, I do not, I have a nice folder structure.
- Most media players do not inhibit the screen idle/suspend, so the phone goes to suspend while I'm playing music, and recovering from that is not trivial. I wrote a script that uses dbus messages to detect when media is playing and then starts/stops gnome-session-inhibit and this works.
At least these are all easy-to-fix software niggles rather than technical limitations.
Oh, I got the USB-C dock and the convergence feature is really amazing, I love it! Phosh handles this beautifully, I forget that I'm working off a phone after a while
I noted two minor issues though:
- I can't use an external touchscreen as a tablet, probably because Wayland doesn't support multiple touchscreens simultaneously?
- Doesn't seem to support audio via HDMI (I see the commit you linked to might fix this, I'll try it in my patched kernel)