On 17 May 2008, at 18:16, Doug Hawkins wrote:
...
There are a few "hassles" with the Nokia software that I'm looking
forward to making sure are "clean" with the OpenMoko system when I
get to start playing on one. One is that on some "free" (airport &
community) WiFi systems, you have to open a web page and "accept"
the terms and conditions before it will allow any traffic (VoIP or
otherwise), so I'd like to make a routine that will run a config
script to accept the "terms" based on the network I'm connecting
with (e.g.: look up ESSID in a database to find out that a certain
webpage's button needs to be 'clicked' and perform that task). The
other is to optionally connect to any open WiFi networks as I pass
through them (ESSID scanning & connect attempts through open AP's).
I'm not sure that this should be handled by the VoIP software.
Although I'd like VoIP on my Freerunner, a greater priority for me is
that the IMAP client should automatically check for new messages.
On my present mobile (Sony Ericson P990i) one has to open the
messaging program, select the IMAP account and then "select send &
receive" from a drop-down menu. That this is so fiddly simply means
that I never do it, and if I must check for an important new message
when away from home then the client has to sync through weeks of new
messages in my inbox (yes, I should keep it more tidy!) before
downloading today's messages.
I had envisioned writing a Bash script to run in cron every few
minutes: to switch on wifi, scan for networks and connect to any on
an "allowed" list; a background IMAP send-and-receive can then be
performed if a working wifi connection is found. If we are to have
multiple applications checking for wifi availability then I guess
that should be done in one place?
Stroller.
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