Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

Thanks, I was thinking more in line of having something like "Conversations" on Diablo and have it show incoming SMS or transcribed vmails.

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

I've been using DialCentral for a while now, it was quite buggy when using only extras, but now I've upgraded using extras-devel, and DialCentral is vastly improved. Thanks!

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

One odd little bug/quirk I started realizing:
When I start up DC it auto-logs me in as usual and I at this time click 'Messages'. Now it takes me to the bottom, Account tab instead of the Messages tab where it used to go to.

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

Let me get the steps down
1. Launch Dialcentral
2. Wait for auto-login
3. Click "Messages"
4. Dialcentral switches to "Account"

Does that sound correct? What is the reproducibility? Once? half the time? always? What happens when you click a different tab after login?

And could you provide me a log

• Ctrl+l (little L) to copy it and then paste it somewhere to send to me
• Grab it from "~/.dialcentral/dialcentral.log"

Hopefully I can get an idea of whats going wrong.

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

I love this program and forgive me if I missed something earlier in the thread. I'm just now finding my way around the program and getting the following error using SMS through my Google Voice account - "There was a problem with GV: {'data':{'code':20}, 'ok':False} I have 1.1.8-0 installed.

Basically, what I think I'm experiencing is the program failing to refresh properly on receipt of a reply SMS. The new message properly triggers the LED notification but the new thread cannot be found. If I go to the Account tab and re-login the new thread shows up.

Also, is there a way to delete messages. I apologize its not readily apparent to me.

Great work! This has significantly extended the life of my N810 and given me renewed interest in it. IMO this is a must have program.

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

code 20 is google's general error code. Can you think of anything different or unique you might be doing with your texting that you could hit it?

I doubt it would provide much insight but there is a log file stored at "~/.dialcentral/dialcentral.log" or Ctrl+l (lower-case L) to copy the log to then paste wherever convenient.

On the messages screen there is a button where you can select whether you want to view "All", "Unread", or "Inbox" messages. You cannot mark things are read or archive things from within DC.

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

Hi epage,
I recently encountered a problem and it seems it was caused by DIal Central.
It started when I realized I used all my date plan (500Mb) within less than a day and doing nothing special on my phone but sending a few emails and IMs.
I found out that my phone was sending a lot of data by itself and, using Wireshark and xterminal, found out it was communicating constantly with a google IP and that it was initiated by an app using some python component.

Dial central using a python component (python alarm I think), I decided to uninstall it, even though it was not running (just an icon on the desktop) and all data exchange stopped -- finally!.

I am not sure what is wrong, I had DC for a long time on my phone. I just updated Maemo before when it happened.

Just wanted to let you know, I'd like to understand what happened.

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

Check out the Account Tab where you can disable notifications or lengthen the time between checking. I don't know about the volume of data associated with notifications but the default time to check is 5 minutes which is 288 sessions per day.

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

Except for notifications (which are disabled by default) DC only creates traffic based on user interaction. My focus was on battery life but it also helps people with limited data plans. If you check the log, "~/.dialcentral/dialcentral.log" or Ctrl+l (lower-case L) to copy it, it lists all of the times DC downloads from the web. It could possibly give a hint if something is going crazy.

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

Steps:

1) Launching DC
2) Clicking 'Messages" (before auto-login starts).
The messages tab gets selected.
3) Now the auto-login starts
4) I am taken to the Account tab.

Or:
1) Lanching DC
2) Wait for autologin to start
3) I am taken directly to Accounts tab

Reproducability: 100%

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

And do you have a callback number configured already? It does auto-jump t the Accounts tab when one isn't...

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

Hi Ed.

Hey, any chance I could run a simple script to answer a phone call by pressing a hardware key on the tablet instead of going through the menus?

I was thinking of using xbindkeys and mapping something to a script that would send a "1" number pad sound thingy so I can easily answer the call.

Would this be possible?

Also, remember back when I requested to not send a message notification if the new text began with "me:" so it would cut down on the blink fest while texting someone?

I thought you really liked the idea and you wondered why you didn't think of it before but it seems like nothing has come of it. Are you still interested in this feature?

Thanks chief.

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

I think I know of ways to programmatically enter DTMF tones into a call but not how to accept calls programmatically. Is the DTMF entry all you are looking for?

As for improving notifications, I generally work off of what is within b.m.o. Otherwise I take too much time/stress trying to hunt for people's suggestions rather than doing development or other things. If its a quick add I'd probably go ahead and do it but otherwise it would probably be a lower priority as DC's notifications aren't great and TOR is really meant to handle notifications well.

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

Yeah, I just need like a bin script or whatever to send the tone sound of the "1" key being pressed, I can do the rest from there.

I did file to lessen the notification feature on your bugzilla page, maybe you didn't see it.

I really need to try out TOR. Can't believe I haven't used it yet.

Whoops. :)

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

Oh wow, this was back from October, no wonder i forgot about it. I did make a note about de-emphasizing due to TOR
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5682

I just confirmed that the json payload does not contain the information I need. I would need to adapt parse the HTML. At this point I would be adding complexity and it seems my efforts would best be with TOR.

Of course if someone provided patches or if demand was strong enough I could reconsider

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

Nope. This was the bug doohicker I mentioned to you about previously.
https://garage.maemo.org/tracker/?fu...=657&atid=2469

But yeah, I'll try out TOR for awhile instead.

It's just that I've been so fond of DC for quite some time now. I guess it's time to move on though. :)

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

Its not necessarily a one or the other thing. I use both, it just depends on what I'm doing.

Oh, I didn't realize I had the tracker enabled in the garage project, I guess I should go disable that.

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

Hi Ed. Thanks for the great app.

I am including another post which describes the exact problem I am having. When on t-mobile 3G instead of logging in, DialCentral always says "https://www.google.com/voice/m is not accessible".

Can you add proxy support for this app or do you have a solution for this?

Thank you.
J

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Originally Posted by asasan View Post

I cannot use DialCentral to make GoogleVoice calls.
Using WiFi it works, but when on t-mobile 3G instead of logging in, DialCentral always says https://www.google.com/voice/m is not accessible.

DialCentral doesn't seem to have proxy support. Please ask the author if he can get the proxy settings from python-conic and set up the urllib2.ProxyHandler in DialCentral's browser_emu backend correspondingly.

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

Could you please explain what the advantages/disadvantages of TOR and Dialcentral (N8XX).:confused: Sorry to be so dense but I can't see the need for TOR, thank you.

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

For one thing TOR's IM/SMS is inside the conversations UI. And you can make phone calls from the contacts or phone application. It also doesn't require keeping DC open. Though both have their strongpoints depending on what you want.

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

DC is nice if you don't want battery drain. It will not react unless you do something to it. It has support for broadcast SMSs (could be added to TOR at a later point). It supports csv files for contact lists.

TOR is meant to be "integrated". I get to re-use the builtin texting and dialing UI. One good thing about this is I take advantage of any UI work they do. TOR has support for notifications. It will periodically check for new SMS messages and voicemails. For SMS, the time to next check grows geometrically but is reset on receiving or sending a message. Voicemails are automatically checked for after calls.

On Maemo 5, on regular contacts with a TEL field there is a TOR call button (I've filed bugs to Nokia about there not being a TOR SMS button).

I hope I didn't miss antyhing

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

Thank you for the info

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

Do I have an enterprising soul that would like to try proxy support?

Attached are "dc_glade.py" and "browser_emu.py".

• sudo gainroot
• Place these files at /usr/lib/dialcentral/dc_glade.py and /usr/lib/dialcentral/backends/browser_emu.py (I think)
• Launch DC with and without a proxy, including swapping between connections while it is running.

EDIT: FIles now attached

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

I'm new to google voice and dialcentral. My question is we need to have internet access on the phone, either through wifi or some data plan, before we can use dialcentral, right?
Thanks.

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

Yes.

Long answer:
DC and TOR work by sending network requests to the GV servers to make the phone call on behalf of the user.
GV then calls the user at a pre-determined phone.
Once the user picks up, GV then calls the other party.

The part that needs network traffic - over WLAN or a data plan - is the network request sent to GV to make a phone call.

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

Addison and I both hit an error "'0'"' this last week when opening a text from a new contact. I'm uploading a fix to the autobuilder now.

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

Installed the version 1.1.9-0 today and it will not run!

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

Yeah, well, I said I sent it to the auto-builder, I didn't say I've had a chance to run what it built.

I already hit it this morning and know exactly what to fix (its related to optification).

I didn't expect anyone to run it yet so I didn't post here.

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

It has become "habit" for me to install all the latest updates. For 32 years I have been checking for software "bugs" in our medical products. The "baby blue" colored ventilator on the "House" medical TV series is our "top of the line".

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

Actually, I have been getting that error for quite some time but always thought the contact number was special or different for some reason.

Thanks for trying to clear this for us, Ed!

Hey Den, what medical products does your company make?

Just curious. :)

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

Yeah, a problem when the author of texting app doesn't text all that much

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

Originally, Bourns Life Systems (yes, Bourns of Trimpot fame) in 1978, I ended up at Care Fusion after several "spin-offs".

http://www.carefusion.com/products-a...ces/index.aspx

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

We used to be friends and would text each other.

What happened? *lol*

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

epage on the topic of bugs I've recently hit one: when there's an apostrophe in the contact name, it is shown as the html version of the apostrophe character.

Edit: fixed.

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

I guess I nevr really cared much about "&" being in my contact names. I got some of the escaped characters fixed. Will look at making a new build available

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

'execution failed'
after it was updated today. :-(

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

After installing todays update and then rebooting, mine now works fine.

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

What reported that? Not a message I've seen before in the system.

Kind of weird that a reboot was needed .... but ok.

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

Turns out it was the Personal Menu launcher that was borked.

Re: Dialcentral 1.0
 

I was just stating the sequence of events that resulted in my success. I did not mean to imply that rebooting was necessary.