OPenmoko Dbug FSO Query (SOS)

RANJAN infibit at gmail.com
Thu Jul 30 06:50:05 CEST 2009


Thanks.FSO-Dbus is great.It gives *freedom of customization.*
Sriranjan

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:31 AM, Daniel Willmann <
daniel at totalueberwachung.de> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:38:56 +0530
> RANJAN <infibit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I want to develop an app to read the gps data and continuously send
> > it over SMS in an interval of few seconds to minutes.I am new to
> > LInux and I am using ubuntu 8.10 just for the purpose of app
> > development on openmoko.I have spoken to some developers about this
> > and they have asked me to use Dbus with FSO framework but I am all
> > confused and it is hazy.
>
> ah, sounds great. If you don't know DBus at all I suggest you look for
> a tutorial for your programming language of choice ie. for C [1] or
> python [2].
>
> Then you can take a look at the FSO API documentation in order to learn
> what methods you can use.
>
> http://git.freesmartphone.org/?p=specs.git;a=blob_plain;f=html/index.html;hb=HEAD
>
> Interesting for you is the org.freesmartphone.GSM.SMS and
> org.freedesktop.Gypsy.Position interface along with
> org.freesmartphone.Usage.
>
> > Could you please help me in developing a helloworld application on
> > the free runner phone .(I am yet to get one).Is it possible to
> > develop one and later port it to the phone ?
>
> You can take a look at the sms-sentry project [3] to get an idea about a
> project that is trying to do something very similar. If you are writing
> your application in python porting is pretty easy. For C you will need
> to compile your application with a cross compiler. In any case
> developing on your PC is possible and reasonable. You can run the
> framework on your PC as well (as I am for managing my UMTS modem).
>
>
> Regards,
> Daniel Willmann
>
> [1]: http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-tutorial.html
> [2]: http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-python/doc/tutorial.html
> [3]: http://handheldshell.com/software/fso/sms-sentry.php
>
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