Feature #700
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Need Phone App
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Description
This is probably just a wrapper around the original dialog app from upstream, but might be more.
Update¶
The switch to PinePhone Pro for HW changes the eco-system for apps. Whatever app is chosen/created, there is a Modem SDK that can be used underneath.
See- PiDialer app from original Xeon project
- Megi's dialer app
- Megi's PinePhone Status
- Megi's Modem Status
- Megi's Audio Setup for Voice Calls
This will be hard to test without a SIM
Related issues
Updated by Hammel over 5 years ago
- Status changed from New to In Progress
- % Done changed from 0 to 10
Original PiPhone in python is here: git clone https://github.com/climberhunt/PiPhone.git
This is very short and could probably be written in C fairly easily. It's biggest change from my other apps is the AT modem usage. Modem information is available from Adafruit along with their tutorial which has pinouts and a link to the command manual, although the original didn't get nearly that involved.
I'll probably want to figure out how to make a phone call and send an sms.
Here is some code to send SMS messages. It's written in C for RPi so it's probably a reasonable start for phone calls too. It may be necessary to disable serial port use as configured by default by the bootloader, though I kinda doubt it in my case.
To get notified when a call or message comes in I need to poll on an interrupt on a GPIO pin. The Adafruit page has a link to the reference manual that says which pins to monitor. However, the sysfs interface is now deprecated and new code is supposed to use the new character device libgpiod library Example code is available.
Updated by Hammel over 5 years ago
- Priority changed from Normal to Immediate
- % Done changed from 10 to 30
- Severity changed from 03 - Medium to 01 - Critical
The UI is written and appears to work okay on both the desktop and in Xeon. I can press numbers and special characters (# and *), delete characters and exit the app. The number is displayed at the top of the display.
Next step is to port the call commands from the original app. Then wire up the modem and give it a shot. Of course, I need to order a SIM card first. Probably ought to do that soon.
Updated by Hammel over 1 year ago
- Target version changed from v0.1 to Xeon 1.0 - Asimov
The phone app will need to be rewritten now that the hardware switched to PinePhone Pro, but may be able to use some of the code/algorithms from Megi's voice calling app. There may also be some ideas that can be gleaned from dialing apps on LinuxPhoneApps.org.
Updated by Hammel over 1 year ago
- Severity changed from 01 - Critical to 05 - Very Low
Updated by Hammel about 1 year ago
- Target version changed from Xeon 1.0 - Asimov to 3.0 - Corrino
Updated by Hammel 9 months ago
- Related to Action Item #975: Verify touchscreen support on Pinephone Pro added
Updated by Hammel 8 months ago
- % Done changed from 30 to 50
PiDialer is implemented fully with the new keyboard and textline widgets.
What's needed now is integration of Megi's dialer app which is just the call audio routing setup, not the the actual modem dialing. Then integrate is instructions for interacting with the modem. The audio setup and modem dialing are likely to be connected, although setting up audio could be done at pidialer start time.
I also need to get a SIM card.