ReMoko

Revision as of 19:29, 7 August 2008

About

• Openmoko remote controller is a SoC 08 project, that aims to write a application that can make Openmoko-powered devices appear to be a mixed Bluetooth keyboard-and-mouse device.
• Student: Valério Valério
• Mentor: Daniel Willmann

Remoko v0.3

Instructions

• Pre-requisites
  • Remoko depends on the Openmoko framework;
  • The FSO images built before 20080807 have a bug in the framework bluetooth system, to use remoko in a older FSO image you will need to change this lines in ....:

• • 98
    • - proxy = self.bus.get_object( "org.freesmartphone.Device", "/org/freesmartphone/Device/PowerControl/" + self.name )
    • + proxy = self.bus.get_object( "org.freesmartphone.odeviced", "/org/freesmartphone/Device/PowerControl/" + self.name )

• • 209
    • - genericUsageControl.addResource( DummyResource( genericUsageControl, "Bluetooth" ) )
    • + genericUsageControl.addResource( ODeviceDResource( genericUsageControl, "Bluetooth" ) )

after that you will need to restart the framework (kill the process and start it again or simply restart the device).

Features

• Connection
  • Connection to the majority of the bluetooth stacks;
  • Connection status daemon (possibility to connect to the remote device when the connection are closed);
  • Information about the remote device;
• Mouse Profile
  • 3 button's mouse;
  • Left button mouse holding (for drawing for example);
  • Tapping functionality, like a touchpad;
  • Vertical Scroll;
• Keyboard Profile
  • Full qwerty keyboard;
  • Numeric keyboard;
  • Holding for Capslock, Shift, Control, Alt and Control + Alt;

Known Bugs

• Connection problems with Symbian S60 devices with BT-HID keyboard app provided by Nokia.

Tested Bluetooth Stacks

• Working
  • Linux BlueZ Stack
  • Windows XP SP2
  • Windows Media Center Edition (Toshiba Bluetooth Stack)

• Not Working
  • Symbian Nokia's S60 - tested with Nokia Navigator (probably a BlueZ SDP bug)

Ideas for the application name

• MokoRemote
• BlueRemote
• ReMoko or ReMoto (maybe some character that's a combination of t and k, at least in the splash/logo)
• Mokomote
• Mokomo (shorter)
• FreeMote (Builds on freerunner and remote) -- +1 vote
• MokoKeyMouse (It can be a bit too long, so you can make it shorter as: MKM)

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Ideas for the application logo

• 
  svg source avaiable, contact me --Fradeve11 15:14, 27 April 2008 (CEST)
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Wish List

• Possibility to control presentations easily (few buttons, PG-UP, PG-DOWN for example) - In progress
  • maybe even navigation via gestures
  • possibly use the touchscreen similar to a touchpad (mouse) - Done
    • maybe it is too much, but if you manage to make the touchpad, you could get a small screenshot of the big screen (it is useful for presentations if you want to draw/write something without quality).
• ideally generic GUI that loads controls from some xml config file to make it fully customizable for different purposes (media remote, presenter stick, ...)
• Connect as a Bluetooth remote to a Sony Playstation 3 for Bluray/DVD playback. (JReese)
• Make use of profiles to change the interface easy and fast (interface for mouse, keyboard, a mix of those two, presentations, remote controller for videos and music, ...) - In progress
• Top part of screen as touch-pad, row of three mouse buttons across middle and whichever keyboard the user usually uses on the phone popped-up at the bottom as when adding text in any other app. - In progress
• A MythTV remote would be handy, just a subset of a BT keyboard for common commands with a few nice icons rather than letters on (large) keys.
• Avahi search for HTTP services labeled say "remote" via ethernet (BT/LAN or Wifi). MythTV/Elisa and OOPresentation can develop their own html/flash/javascript/etc. "remotes" to hearts content without fine-grain syncing every change of code/GUI/API with your "OpenMoko Remote App". Avahi/HTTP also lets desktop/laptop browsers to control "remotes"; this means a bigger community.
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Roadmap

• 1- Write a HID BlueZ driver that can enable the Openmoko to be seen as a mixed keyboard and mouse in the three major OS's. - Done
• 2- Map keys and mouse gestures to the USB HID usage tables. - Done
• 3- Write the UI and some other features. - In progress