Thanks for the impressions. I really like the GPS diary idea. Perhaps you should release it to the public? As to alarms, try ffalarms (opkg install ffalarms).
Yogiz On Sun, 7 Jun 2009 21:55:37 +0800 Sven Klomp <[email protected]> wrote: > As you already noticed from my last mail (Visit at Openmoko), I was > traveling through Taiwan. I didn't want to blame anyone, but share my > feelings with people that are also thrilled by this project. > Nevertheless as several people already mentioned, we have an open > phone! and there is a future! > > I use my Freerunner for several weeks as my daily phone now (started > after the buzz was fixed by Daniel, thanks). However, the last two > weeks I stretched my FR to the limit and it did it well: Few days > before I started traveling Taiwan, I decided to make some GPS based > diary for my friends at home. Thanks to the very easy API of FSO, I > was able to write a basic application in Python within three > evenings. The applications sends the current coordinates and some > text to my server, where a KML file is created which can be > downloaded by my friends. At the airport, I bought a cheap Taiwan SIM > card and I started to transmit my position via GPRS (which also > worked out-of-the-box). Furthermore, the timezone changed > automagically based on GSM (my old Sony Ericsson wasn't able to do > so). > > I had a lot of fun during the last weeks tracking my travel. Of > course, I had some problems but I could solve all of them more or > less. E.g. the SHR alarm application doesn't worked. So I did the > alarm the bash way: sleep 28800 && aplay alarm.wav :-) With this > solution, the phone couldn't suspend. Luckily, the wall charger has > Taiwan connections below the European adaptor :-) Furthermore, I was > that adventurous to make an opkg upgrade during the travel :-) > Thereafter, I couldn't suspend after I started GPRS. Annoying, but > not a serious problem. > > I love my FR > Sven > > P.S.: Now I start to fill some bug reports :-) > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
