FSO ringtones

Revision as of 14:42, 21 September 2008

The milestone 3 way

FSO milestone 3 introduces some configuration files for Zhone. It is now possible to define as many ringtone profiles as we want. Each profile is a YAML configuration file located in :

/etc/freesmartphone/opreferences/conf/phone

The default profile is defined in the default.yaml file :

ring-tone: "Arkanoid_PSID.sid"
ring-volume: 10

To change this default ringtone :

1. copy the sound file into /usr/share/sounds/
2. edit the "ringtone" field to match your sound filename.

Note

Not sure I'm doing this the Right Way, but I had to patch /usr/share/python-support/fso-frameworkd/framework/subsystems/oeventsd/fso_actions.py this way :

--- fso_actions.py.orig	2008-09-21 14:38:03.000000000 +0200
+++ fso_actions.py	2008-09-13 00:49:37.000000000 +0200
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@
         phone_prefs = prefs.GetService( "phone" )
         ring_tone = phone_prefs.GetValue( "ring-tone" )
         ring_volume = phone_prefs.GetValue( "ring-volume" )
-        sound_path = os.path.join( installprefix, "share/sounds/", ring_tone )
+        sound_path = os.path.join( installprefix, "usr/share/sounds/", ring_tone )
 
         if self.cmd == "play":
             logger.info( "Start ringing : tone=%s, volume=%s", ring_tone, ring_volume )
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@
         phone_prefs = prefs.GetService( "phone" )
         tone = phone_prefs.GetValue( "message-tone" )
         volume = phone_prefs.GetValue( "message-volume" )
-        sound_path = os.path.join( installprefix, "share/sounds/", tone )
+        sound_path = os.path.join( installprefix, "usr/share/sounds/", tone )
 
         if self.cmd == "play":
             logger.info( "Start ringing : tone=%s, volume=%s", tone, volume )

The milestone 2 way

The ringtone in milestone 2 is stored here:

/usr/share/sounds/Arkanoid_PSID.sid

Fun fact : according to the gstreamer documentation, .sid files are in fact small Commodore 64 programs that are executed on an emulated 6502 CPU and a MOS 6581 sound chip.

Now to change it is a little bit of fun.

first change directory to

/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/framework/subsystems/oeventd/

and open the file parser.py

1. this will be /var/lib/python-support/python2.5/framework/subsystems/oeventd/parser.py if you are using FSO under Debian

Search for PlaySound. Edit the 2 lines to point to your wav or mp3 file.

There does seem to be a lag of a few vibrations before the sound starts but that might desirable. (I didn't compare against the original code). The code to specifically handle formats, (oggs for example) can be a little complicated and makes things messy. Since, it seems like this code is changing in FSO, I'm leaving it for the moment.

Then

mv receiver.pyo /home/root 

1. receiver.pyo will be receiver.pyc in FSO under Debian

python
 >>> import py_compile
 >>> py_compile.compile("parser.py")
 >>> quit()

1. You may not have the py_compile module. You can install them like this:

opkg install python-compile

/etc/init.d/fso-frameworkd restart && /etc/init.d/zhone-session stop && sleep 2 && /etc/init.d/zhone-session start

1. I've only run the above restart commands in Debian so I'm not sure if they are the same in the default FSO image
2. the default zhone-session file doesn't have a working restart command, hence the stop->sleep 2->start

zhone for FSO seems to be launched by Xsession.d so maybe try:

/etc/init.d/xserver-nodm restart

Now you can link /usr/share/sounds/ringtone to any mp3 (or other sound file if you took the second option) and that will be your ringtone