The push notifications service beta =================================== The push notifications service is nearly ready for prime time! Want to help us test it? here is how:
What to expect ============== A client side daemon that stays connected and gets notified every once in a while What to test ============ We will be sending more notifications than real image updates, and we will post the log of sent notification to the mailing list. You should check that for each sent notification you saw the popup and/or you have it in your logs. A successful notification will appear on your client as described here: https://plus.google.com/+JohnLenton/posts/9Ds7XeicYPK Currently the notification method of popups is transient (it merely displays on the screen, and disappears after a fixed timeout, leaving nothing behind), so you might not notice a notification that was shown. You can tap the notification to open the system updates interface. (But you won't get any updates, because readwrite image and us sending fake notifications) Besides that, we want to make sure we are not breaking in any spectacular way (battery, cpu, etc). Administrativia =============== The launchpad project for the push client is at: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-push You can talk to us on the mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-push-devs Or the irc channel #ubuntu-touch @freenode Contact __lucio__ or Chipaca When reporting bugs, make sure to include the logs from /home/phablet/.cache/upstart/ubuntu-push-client.log How to install the push notifications client ============================================ Start with a pristine phone with a recent image of the 'trusty' or 'devel' channel (e.g. version 250). If you've done things with your phone before doing the below, and it fails, contact us privately. Ironically, after following the steps below your system will no longer be able to be updated via system image updates until you reflash it (see the section called "Cleaning Up", below). With your phone connected over USB to your computer, in a terminal on your computer, desktop $ phablet-config writable-image desktop $ adb shell phone # apt-get update # make sure your package lists are up to date phone # apt-get install ubuntu-push-client Now you should have the push client installed. To start it, do phone # su - phablet phone $ start ubuntu-push-client you can track the logfile via phone # tail -f /home/phablet/.cache/upstart/ubuntu-push-client.log You're now running ubuntu-push-client! Cleaning Up =========== Cleaning up (so that system image updates work) unfortunately requires that you re-flash your device: desktop $ adb shell rm /userdata/.writable_image && ubuntu-device-flash --channel=devel Known Issues ============ Notifications emblem on launcher instead of transient popup https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity8/+bug/1301400 Deep Sleep: not yet available System updates will not work while the image is modified: that is why you need to re flash your device to get it back to working condition.
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