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SettingsGUI - Audio Settings

Overview

Until OpenMoko releases an official GUI-Tool to change settings, SettingsGUI allows you to set various settings of the gta01.

This program is written in Python using pygtk. It can be used only if those are present in your environment (see SettingsGUI#Environment).

Current Features

• Screen (Backlight enable/disable, Backlight brightness, Screen Orientation)
• Audio (profile selection, volume, mute, save to profile)
• GSM (restart gsmd, signal strength, provider, status)
• GPRS (load and save settings from and to /etc/ppp/peers/, connect, set APN, User, Password, Number)

Planned Features

• GSM (Provider selection)
• Bluetooth (device scanning, connection, signal strength)
• GPRS (display transfer rate, activate GPRS router)
• Battery (show capacity, voltage, charger-status)

Comment on GSM Support

• As there are no gsmd python bindings available at the time, SettingGUI uses python-subprocess and threads to communicate to the commandline of libgsmd-tool for the time being.

• To prevent interference with the GSM modem you have to expicitly power-up and register the modem by toggeling the "GSM State" checkboxes.

• If you manually register to the gsm network (by toggeling the "Register" checkbox) SettingsGUI will sometimes not notice when the connection is established. Just toggle the init checkbox after about 3 seconds. (this seems to be due to a bug in gsmd...)

• When the GPRS connection is still active (pppd runnung on the system) you should close the connection as gsmd can't start up while pppd is using the modem connection - chose "Yes" in the dialog:

Comment on GPRS Support

If you have problems connecting check:

• If the modem is initialized and registered to a network (Start gsmd and register)
• If your login data (mostly APN and User are okay)

• When the gsmd still running you should close the connection as gsmd will interfere with pppd - chose "Yes" in the dialog:

The connection will be terminated when you quit the application. However saved peer configurations can be called independently using:

pppd debug call gprs # where gprs is the peer

Default configuration files are defined in GlobalConfiguration.py. The peer configuration, a connect- and disconnect chat script are written to /etc/ppp/peers/ on first startup if you don't already have a peer in /etc/ppp/peers/. When the connect button is pressed SettingsGUI will create latest_* files in /etc/ppp/peers/ and start the pppd with this latest_* peer.

SettingsGUI also brings a default Nameserver in case you don't have a valid /etc/resolve.conf. The IP is from the OpenDNS Project and will only work if your GPRS provider allows DNS access to this server.

If you have to change anything else than APN, user, password or dial in number for your provider please leave a note at the Discussion Page.

For details and background information on GPRS see Manually using GPRS.

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Thanks to Alessandro there also is an .ipk and a .bb file. Have a look at his user site.

Environment

For more, see Python.

The following archives will have to be installed (source packages: python python-pygtk python-pycairo python-pygobject):

• python-core
• python-misc
• python-lang
• python-pygtk
• python-subprocess
• python-threading (should be a dependency of python-subprocess - todo: fix)
• python-pygobject (should be a dependency of python-pygtk - todo: fix)

If you want to test this and do not have a build environment, you can 'ipkg install' the python components from the ScaredyCat repositories.

Installation / Execution

from package

• add Alessandros repository as a ipkg source

vi /etc/ipkg/alessandro.conf

• insert

src/gz aiurlano-armv4t http://aiurlano.netsons.org/OpenMoko/ipk/armv4t
src/gz aiurlano-all http://aiurlano.netsons.org/OpenMoko/ipk/all

• update your db

ipkg update

• install latest settingsgui

ipkg install settingsgui

from source

• download file to Neo (e.g. using wget)
• Uncompress tar.bz2 file (e.g. e.g. tar -xjvf file.tar.bz2)
• install:

cd settingsgui-x.x
mv settingsgui  settingsgui.py
mkdir settingsgui 
mv * settingsgui
mv settingsgui/settingsgui.py ./

• run:

export DISPLAY=:0.0
python settingsgui.py &

Comment on Installation

From Version 0.7 Python distutils is used. So you could also use the setup.py script to install the package:

python settingsgui-x.x/setup.py install

But to do this you'll also have to install the packages:

python-compile python-devel python-stringold python-distutils

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