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Hi everybody,

After some discussions on TJC and some brainstorm, I'm proud to introduce phonebot, a scheduling daemon that takes inspiration from profilematic, IFTTT and on{X}

It has the following features

• React to phone events, just like profilematic
• If {events occurs} then {do something}, a bit like IFTTT (and profilematic too)
• Scriptable using JS, just like on{X}, and QML

Architecture

phonebot isn't trying to reinvent the wheel. Since we are with Qt, we can take advantage of QML and JS to write rules. Actually phonebot is just reading QML files that contains rules. It uses the powerful QQmlEngine to do all the hard work of parsing, interpreting etc.

A Rule in phonebot is a QML component that have 3 properties

• trigger: something that triggers the rule
• condition: a condition (or conditions) to respect for the rule to be active
• actions: a series of actions to execute when the rule is triggered, and when conditions are respected

The Trigger is in charge of emitting signals to run the Rule. Triggers could be: when it's 10pm, when you enter in the home wifi zone, when Battery reached a certain level etc.

The Condition do not provide any signal, and represent more a state. A Condition could be "when driving", "when at home" etc. (even if implementing this kind of condition is rather tricky).

An Action is what to run: execute a program, turn on / off some settings, change an ambience, or use DBus to do stuff.

Here is an example of scripted rule. You will also be able to configure rule with a friendly UI (using default Triggers, Conditions and Actions).

Rules are stored inside ~/.config/harbour-phonebot/<rule-folder>/rule.qml, you can add your own rule or take a look at rules generated by the client.

How to use

If you are running the harbour version (that is the only version being released), you should keep the application always on to have rules working.

To add a rule, use the pull down menu on the main page, you will then have to

• Give a name (optionnal)
• Configure a trigger
• Configure a condition (optionnal)
• Add some actions

Configure a component (Trigger, Condition or Action)

First, select the component you want to configure. A dialog will appear, asking you to select a component type. By clicking on this entry, you will be shown a list of components. Select the one you want.

Then, you will come back to the previous dialog. You will see that the selected component is shown in the component type, and you will be able to configure it.

Configure it, and accept to have the component configured. Remember that you need at least a trigger, to trigger an action, and an action to be triggered.

Download

• harbour-phonebot 0.1.1: OBS
• phonebot source code: GitHub

Of course, this post will be updated when new features comes.

OBS link not set correctly

Links will be added when links will be ready, obliviously

OBS always fails the first time you build your project
Sent a fix, hope this works.

Nice started, started to write something like this. Now I can use the time to ignore my other projects instead. (:

I was little modify and add list of cond&actions on Together..

For example Jolla as all MeeGo devices have Ring volume and Media volume separately ..

One rule for your own entertainment. Better rules will come at some point

qdbus org.SfietKonstantin.phonebotdebug /silent org.SfietKonstantin.phonebotdebug.Ping will silent your phone (how impressive )

Thank you, this looks very promising!

Have you looked into timedclient support integration? I'm using it (in a very hackish way though) in one of my apps and it's a great tool.

I'm using https://github.com/nemomobile/nemo-keepalive right now.
I might use timed to do some alarm clock integration though.

Right ... you should get a first release of the harbour enabled phonebot today for testing ... Right now, OBS is building it.

EDIT: 3 fails

And it's out. First release is very raw but lay down basis for enhancements. Please test and tell what you want next

Download here

PS: as it's the harbour verion, you need to keep the app open. The more integrated version will come quite soon.

EDIT2: hum, the release is pretty broken: no cover, and failing to create the rules. Will provide a fix asap
EDIT3: fix online: grab 0.1.1.
EDIT4: huhu, you actually got a SIGBUS when trying to save a rule, not nice ...
EDIT5: finally fixed, use the 0.1.1 link to DL.