Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Version 2.5 is out, see blog post: https://bkhome.org/news/202011/easyos-version-25-released.html Feedback so far is that BluePup bluetooth manager is working well. The previous release of EasyOS, 2.4.1, had Blueman, a bluetooth manager written in python, however, I had issues with it. So, wrote my ...

I have fixed file send and receive to/from a phone, see blog post: https://bkhome.org/news/202011/bluepup-receive-files-from-phone-works.html We were discussing the "no default controller" error on the EasyOS forum. Two reports, both cases the problem is missing firmware, and in both cases...

Regarding BluePup, sending files to a phone and receiving files from a phone, is broken in 2.4.92.

I have fixed both send and receive, see blog post:

https://bkhome.org/news/202011/bluepup- ... works.html

BluePup is also in the latest EasyOS, version 2.4.92, a Release Candidate for 2.5:

https://easyos.org/forum/showthread.php?tid=244

Blog announcement:

https://bkhome.org/news/202011/easyos-2 ... or-25.html

Browse my blog to see what is new. It includes the new BluePup bluetooth manager, XLennart game, and SeaMonkey is now 2.53.5.
Built from Debian Buster 10.6 DEBs.

stemsee wrote: ↑Sat Nov 14, 2020 2:01 pm

this link seems simpler
https://variwiki.com/index.php?title=IMX_Bluetooth_Obex

That's interesting. It says that no special action is required to receive a file, but I presume that obexctl or obexd need to be running?

Hello. Thank you for a new release of EasyPup. I tried BluePup. It worked fine. transmitter: princeton PTM-UBT3S (usb bluetooth adapter) receiver: buffalo BSHSBE06 (headset) Both devices are rather old. I haven't used them for years. :) Good! USB bluetooth adapters are troublesome with Linux. Apart...

dir2sfs failed, but the renaming in /tmp/SBo completed It looks like version of dir2pet in easyOS doesn't have as many options. So instead of: dir2pet -s -p=$PKG_Fname -w="File Manager" -c="Filesystem" you can do the following: dir2pet $PKG_Fname ran dir2sfs in /tmp/SBo, took th...

My blog post says it all: https://bkhome.org/news/202011/pmcputemp-now-has-hardware-profiling.html 01micko Is the original author of Pmcputemp. Apart from member 'banned' reporting a temp reading that was "off the scale" and obviously incorrect, there was another report about the temperatu...

Just reading through that link I posted above. It mentions 'gtkdialog' as very useful for writing GUI apps with shell scripts, then adds: There are a host of other tools useful for GUIs with shell scripting. Just listing some here, you will have to chase up documentation on each. These are all built...

This is a good read for people getting into coding and compiling: https://easyos.org/dev/coding-for-easyos.html ...although I wrote it for EasyOS, it is applicable to Puppy and the pup-derivatives, though the 'dir2sfs' script in EasyOS is somewhat different. I think that 'new2dir' has changed a bit ...

Here is the post about BluePup bluetooth manager:

viewtopic.php?f=89&t=1356

BluePup is a GUI wrapper around 'bluetoothctl' commandline utility. The first BluePup was in 2016, then it languished. Now, it has been mostly rewritten and has new lease on life. BluePup is not yet a PET, but the aim is that a PET can be created that will work on all pups. It requires gtkdialog wit...

Yes, another EasyPup! This is a continuation of the "classical Puppy", see blog announcement: https://bkhome.org/news/202011/easypup-2491-released.html Puppy users might be very interested in BluePup, my Bluetooth management GUI, that you will find in EasyPup 2.4.91. I am just about to do ...

mp can be configured at compile time to only build the console component, which is what I have in EasyOS. Also, I use a very old version, 3.3.17, which has some mods to support utf-8. Here is the pet compiled for Debian Buster: http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/packages/pet/pet_packages-buster/...

If the file is written to externally, say "echo > /tmp/found-new-devices", then the action in the timer only fires once. Seems to be more complicated. Here is what I found: command fires remark echo > file twice the quoted example, writes 1 character echo -n > file once writes a null stri...

@sc0ttman
Extremely interesting!

I am up to the eyeballs trying to get bluetooth to work properly on EasyOS right now, but I have bookmarked this thread and will be back!

step Yes, that is an interesting possibility. I am beginning to wonder about bluez, my experience so far is that it is poorly coded. The daemon crashes, not just for me, but heaps of reports about that on the Internet. And if the daemon crashes, bluetoothctl hangs! I ran "bluetoothctl info <de...

Yes, works great, very sophisticated app. I did a search for "the beatles" and downloaded "hey jude". Only a minor criticism, got a window that it was downloading and I clicked its ok button, but then did not get a confirm message after it had downloaded. But I found it in /root

An extra note about the above. SVG would probably be better. It might not be known by everybody, but SVG has had animation capability right from the beginning. The GIF I created has a fixed 40 sec duration, but with SVG the duration could be changed at runtime. Also it could be much smoother playbac...

mistfire Fair enough, norgo is feeding in all required commands to pair into stdin, so bluetoothctl does not exit. I am using bluetoothctl one-shot, that is, one command at a time, like: # bluetoothctl discoverable on # bluetoothctl trust <dev> # bluetoothctl pair <dev> ...or whatever, that is just...

@step I am also working on a bluetooth manager, and have recently gone through the same puzzlement and learning experience with bluetoothctl and "agent on". Doing either of these fails: # echo "agent on" | bluetoothctl # bluetoothctl agent on Because bluetoothctl is the agent, mu...

Is there a special thread for gtkdialog, like "gtkdialog tips" that zigbert created in the Murga Forum? Can't see one in this forum, so posting here. The official documentation shows <progressbar> being used in a popup window. I searched and found some code posted for having it embedded in...

@MochiMoppel, Glad to see that you are still around! You are one of the gtkdialog gurus! In your original example on the Murga Forum, the reason for the timer firing twice was the <button> widget. It's action fires twice when a button is clicked. I commented on my blog about this, it can cause unexp...

Or rather, it doesn't work for me, the way I am trying to do it, which, as far as I can see, is exactly as the documentations says. I have reported the problem today on my blog: https://bkhome.org/news/202010/problem-with-gtkdialog-timer-widget.html Here is the code: <timer visible="false"...

Hi James, yes, that's a nice read! Incredible dedication to do it from scratch, almost, the way you have. I was also with T2 for many years, then my port of OpenEmbedded, oe-qky-src: https://github.com/bkauler/oe-qky-src . That oe-qky-src was for the "Pyro" series of EasyOS, but when the t...

I only have alsa in EasyOS, but the 'bluez' v5 package expects pulseaudio, for bluetooth audio support. Which is a very big headache! I compiled 'bluez-alsa', which is a kind of substitute to pulseaudio, and does enable bluetooth audio to work with just alsa. Some of my blog posts: https://bkhome.or...

Just now looking at that on my system. Yes, go to the menu "Multimedia -> Audio -> AlsaMixer audio mixer" and I see the "mic" levels are all at "0 < > 0". So, bump them up and you should be good to go. Thanks Feodorf.

Exciting new features, see blog post:

https://bkhome.org/news/202008/easyos-v ... eased.html

A note while I think of it: jamesbond has paid US$60 to Linode for one year of hosting, so we owe him. When some donation mechanism is sorted out, remember to reimburse James.