Hi GNUtoo, thanks for your thoughtful answer. Sorry for not providing more links in my email to help readers.
Quoth Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli: > On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 19:43:59 +0200 > Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <gnu...@cyberdimension.org> wrote: > I've came across an article about it here: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple/Google_Exposure_Notification_system > > It seems to be a standard. It can probably be implemented at the > OS/distribution level or in applications. Yes, this is what microG does. They reimplemented it theirselves, so it is free software, though I believe I read that there is some non-free server-side stuff that it relies on, but I can't find that right now. Anyway, good news is that I got it working, all with free software. It looks like the BLE thing was an irrelevance. The app in my country (the UK) is free software, too, thankfully; https://github.com/nhsx/covid-19-app-android-ag-public I discovered that the reason it wasn't working for me was that I was missing "signature spoofing support", which microG needs for the exposure notification stuff it provides. I got that by installing Xposed and the FakeGApps module. To be more explicit, these are the steps I took to get it to work: - Installed the bluetooth firmware using the script at https://code.fossencdi.org/firmwares_nonfree.git - Installed microG from Fdroid - Installed FakeStore from Fdroid (needed for microG to work for this) - Installed Xposed Installer from Fdroid - Enabled root for apps from Settings -> Developer options -> Root access -> Apps only - Ran Xposed Installer to install Xposed, and rebooted when it prompted - Disabled root for apps from Settings -> Developer options -> Root access -> Disabled - Installed the FakeGApps Xposed Module from Fdroid, and enabled it by pressing on the notification that came up to enable, and ticking the checkbox that then appears - Rebooted the phone again (may or may not have been necessary) - Installed the APK of the Covid app (which for my country is only officially available on Play Store, unfortunately, so I got it from apkmirror.com I also granted all optional permissions to the microG app from the Self- Check screen of the app, but I don't know if they're necessary; I'll try disabling them soon. So, I hope this helps someone, and am happy and relieved that we can get it working with all free software (except for bluetooth firmware)! Thanks for your help, Nick _______________________________________________ Replicant mailing list Replicant@osuosl.org https://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant
