SailfishX NFC support
 

Since the official SailfishX thread has grown gigantic I will throw this bone to it's own thread.

I am not sure whether NFC support is under work by Jolla team or is it something that the community is expected to do? From James Noori comments the latter seems to be more likely.

If it is community driven stuff is it something that is already done and needs porting, or maybe just packaging?

edit: added SailfishX

Re: SailfishX NFC support
 

I think nfc support is already here, there are simply no applications using it right now.

At least /dev/pn54x is already there, libnfc with qt bindings is availible and nfc is no longer listed in the unsupported list on the HADK page. (purely speculating here, might be that it's not functional at all yet)

Re: SailfishX NFC support
 

As of application, anyone tried to use an AndroidApp to utilize NFC?

Re: SailfishX NFC support
 

I built Neard which should support the NXP chip on these sony devices as well as having QtNFC support, but I haven't yet managed to get it to actually do something useful

If anyone else wants to play around with it then be my guest

https://build.merproject.org/package...:r0kk3rz/neard

Re: SailfishX NFC support
 

at the latest when Jala ACCIONE P appears on the market :) Advertising with NFC support.

Re: SailfishX NFC support
 

I tried pairing my Polar V800 with SailfishX with no luck. Here is what happens.

- I open bluetooth from settings
- I start pairing from my V800
- V800 tells me to touch the phone, which i do
- Phone sees Polar V800 and I select it
- Phone says it is now pairing and asks me to write PIN code 00000 on both devices and gives 2 options: cancel or pair - i select pair
- V800 does not present any prompt for pair code (nor it should)
- Phone says it is now paired
- V800 says pairing failed

Looks to me like SailfishX does not know NFC.

Re: SailfishX NFC support
 

I think you are mistaking bluetooth and NFC here.

Re: SailfishX NFC support
 

You can do bluetooth pairing over NFC, but *requiring* it sounds like a terrible idea.

Re: SailfishX NFC support
 

Ok so I was investigating this a bit further and it looks like there is minimal kernel support for the NXP pn547 NFC Chip in these devices, basically just enough to get the thing initialised but not enough to present in the standard kernel HCI way.

Until that is fixed then Neard is not going to work, so it might be worth trying the android route and implementing libnfc middleware instead.

Re: SailfishX NFC support
 

in Sydney we have NFC bus tickets ,and an Android app that reads them. I'll try and see if it works (on sailfish X)

and “for security reasons Opal travel does not support devices that have been rooted”

Re: SailfishX NFC support
 

Forgot to mention that Polar asks me to touch the device but yes it requires PIN code so perhaps it is a bluetooth thing then? In that case the bluetooth needs some working as well.

Re: SailfishX NFC support
 

can you get some specific how make work nfc for sfx?
when i enable qt += nfc it says

unknown module nfc

Re: SailfishX NFC support
 

It doesnt work on xperia x, for multiple reasons.

The only possible solution is to build QtNFC for Android against libhybris i think, which will have to be done per adaptation