Silent-Hunter
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Will it come with software in the NAND for making and receiving telephone calls? ED said the voice lines will be connected, so it can be used as a phone.
I don't know whether or not it will ship with that, but I suspect that this will be a very high-priority community project if no existing software can be used.Will it come with software in the NAND for making and receiving telephone calls? ED said the voice lines will be connected, so it can be used as a phone.
I recommend a shell script that uses Zenity and just sends Hayes commands to the telephone chip. As for receiving phone calls, just have a similar one always running in the background, and an XFCE notification could pop up with the number/contact that is calling, along with an accept and decline button.I don't know whether or not it will ship with that, but I suspect that this will be a very high-priority community project if no existing software can be used.Will it come with software in the NAND for making and receiving telephone calls? ED said the voice lines will be connected, so it can be used as a phone.
We have scores of software developers in this community that could make a much more polished solution than just zenity scripts and such.That can be done with shell scripting, right?
the phoney part
Damn, you beat me to it.the phoney part
I thought the pyra was going to have a real phone part!
It does though. Both of those programs are written as shell scripts. The only way to give them a GUI was Zenity. I like how Zenity works, I think it's fine.Zenity does neither of that. Zenity is a way to quickly hack up a GUI for shellscripts. It's an eyesore, and the current os is pretty much 95% Zenity crap on the UI-part...
There are some starting points (but no complete solution for the Pyra):Probably depends on whether or not debian has such a package.