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Re: [Anounce] [N9] Volume/Power Button Monitor

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Originally Posted by wolke (Post 1283064)

quiksnap like take a picture with the camera from the lockscreen. like when the cat is being cute.

for screenshot, we could do long-click of volume down, but be aware that your phone would go into silent mode while we did...because of the problem#1 in the post above

i vote for both :D

The silent mode is a small price for the ease of access...

Re: [Anounce] [N9] Volume/Power Button Monitor

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Originally Posted by thedead1440 (Post 1283067)

i vote for both :D

The silent mode is a small price for the ease of access...

im afraid i cant quite agree. i personally only use n9-button-monitor on the standby screen and specific apps where i can cancel the vol+/- button actions like FBReader.

the fact that the buttons also changes the profile {or the volume, or the camera zoom, or whatever weird fit takes their fancy} is a large detriment to n9bm's usability elsewhere.

you can do the screenshot bit yourself, btw, with n9-button-monitor as it stands.

make a script that will take a screenshot, and add an action with "cmd(that-script.sh)" and no condition, et voila

Re: [Anounce] [N9] Volume/Power Button Monitor

My phone is always on silent anyway, so I'm not bothered by that..

But maybe to get past that, can we have two button presses at the same time? Like I said before - press volume up and down together to take screenshot. Or Press up and then down in rapid succession, so if your phone was in silent, it'll go to beep, then back to silent again and there will be no change. Is it possible to detect that by the button monitor?

Re: [Anounce] [N9] Volume/Power Button Monitor

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Originally Posted by wolke (Post 1283062)

lolololollololololololololololololol win98

htheb, youre aware of the two obstacles right?
1) we have to cancel ALL default actions in ALL apps. i dont know if this is possible without touching the apps themselves, which are mostly closed. {this needs to still let n9-button-monitor receive the events; disabling the buttons completely wont solve it, of course}
2) {and i HALF solved this one} we have to be able to programmatically control the volume. i can only do this with a mafw application running in the background, which i may be able to do as a daemon

solicit someone who has some experience with the mostly-closed-source guts of harmattan to do #1 for us, and i will deliver you your application. i personally cant fathom how to accomplish #1, and i spent awhile banging my head.

Yeah, the plan was to make some deamon running in the background to make the volume buttons work as media volume buttons. I haven't heard anything from it anymore, thats why im still waiting for it :)

make this and ull get your 3th donation ;)

Re: [Anounce] [N9] Volume/Power Button Monitor

htheb
heh. actually thats the easy part, and i could get that working fairly easily.
the HARD part is in stopping the default actions like profile change and camera zoom. without THAT, a volume-change-key-daemon would obviously be useless.

flopjoke
actually, it USED to work like that, so that you could define arbitrary button press patterns, like "UpPress, DownPress, DownRelease, UpRelease".
everyone told me that the patterns were ridiculous, confusing to describe, hard to press, and fairly useless. they were quite right.

what you can do instead is simply bind the screenshot button to double-press up, and then double-press down on your own to compensate. or vice-versa, depending on whether you like silent mode on more often or not.

{what im describing here is still perfectly do-able without any change to n9bm}

Re: [Anounce] [N9] Volume/Power Button Monitor

so i dont have an n9 anymore thanks to hurricane sandy.

turns out an empty condition is a parse error, so i did need to add a condition to support the feature flopjoke wanted. i added the screenshot action while i was there for convenience, with flopjoke compiling and testing it for me.

new version 0.4.5

1) condition=always
2) action=screenShot

note that the screen shot is always in portrait mode, like screenshotmee. screenshotmee lets you rotate the pic afterwards in a gui. n9bm just makes the file and lets you do what you want with it.

Re: [Anounce] [N9] Volume/Power Button Monitor

wolke,

So you have now lost 2 n9s? :p

Re: [Anounce] [N9] Volume/Power Button Monitor

oh, i see youve heard the phrase 'rubbing it in' and are a fan of it!

Re: [Anounce] [N9] Volume/Power Button Monitor

im adding a dbus listener to get bluetooth speaker buttons.

i just finished testing a standalone python script. if anyone has a bluetooth thingie with media buttons, i would appreciate your testing this out.

i have a hipe shower speaker, and mine does this silly thing where it occasionally sends button clicks 8 times from a single click. im especially curious to know whether this is my fault, hipe's, or nokia's.

Re: [Anounce] [N9] Volume/Power Button Monitor

heres the python script. you have to install some stuff.

apt-get install python-dbus python-pyside.qtcore

name it dbusbtn.py. copy it to MyDocs and run it like this:

Code:

user:~$ python /home/user/MyDocs/dbusbtn.py

button: previous-song

  ignored: previous-song

  ignored: previous-song

  ignored: previous-song

  ignored: previous-song

  ignored: previous-song

  ignored: previous-song

  ignored: previous-song

button: next-song

button: play-cd

button: stop-cd

Code:

#!/usr/bin/python

#N9 Button Monitor

#Copyright 2012 Elliot Wolk

# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify

# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or

# (at your option) any later version.



import sys

import time

import signal

from traceback import print_exc

 

import dbus

from dbus.mainloop.glib import DBusGMainLoop

from PySide.QtCore import QCoreApplication



signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal.SIG_DFL)

dbus_service="org.freedesktop.Hal"

dbus_path="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_logicaldev_input_0"

dbus_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device"

dbus_member="Condition"



## for some horrible reason, i get 8 clicks sometimes

## this buffer ignores repeated clicks within a certain time

## set it to -1 to never ignore

repeat_buffer_millis=800



last_button_click_millis = dict()



def button_clicked(button, handler):

  now_millis = int(round(time.time() * 1000))

  if button in last_button_click_millis:

    then_millis = last_button_click_millis[button]

    if now_millis - then_millis < repeat_buffer_millis:

      print >> sys.stderr, "  ignored: " + button

      return



  last_button_click_millis[button] = now_millis

  handler(button)



def defaultHandler(button):

  print >> sys.stderr, "button: " + button



def connectButtonDbus(handler=defaultHandler):

  dbus.mainloop.glib.DBusGMainLoop(set_as_default=True)

  bus = dbus.SystemBus()

  try:

    obj = bus.get_object(dbus_service, dbus_path)

    iface = dbus.Interface(obj, dbus_interface)

  except dbus.DBusException:

    print_exc()

    sys.exit(1)

 

  iface.connect_to_signal(dbus_member,

    lambda cond, arg: button_clicked(arg, handler))



if __name__ == '__main__':

  app = QCoreApplication([])

  connectButtonDbus()

  app.exec_()