Hello!

Welcome to the party and be careful what you wish for!!

Im Langston, one of the devs on the project. Mainly, i work on gui related stuff. I don't know how much armorgnome has mentioned, but linuxmce is quite the complex system so don't hesitate to ask questions. Welcome!

-golgoj4

yep... designed for tablets.

i'll test the qorbiter binary this night... THX.

ochorocho

ok cool. maybe you can give me some suggestions on my stb UI. lol

-golgoj4

is this intended for tablets?

Also a couple things

1) QOrbiter doesnt run well in a VM. So i consider it an unsupported configuration.
2) Opengl isnt enabled by default. i guess i roll that into a command line opt or somethin
3) https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6ucnrflo6w7ry8m/AecFEjsyVS is where im going to start keeping builds. READ THE README
   *These are pre-compiled binaries including the qml so it can be hacked on without needing to re-compile. Just reload or switch to and from a skin to reload it.

-golgoj4

Awesome. And thanks to you guys who were putting it through its paces!

-golgoj4

But then they are olds, no?

Sorry, sorry, enough with the OT posts.

But what is 'on topic' anyways....

Ok... I'll do it,...

But I want to do it with Guake...
http://guake.org/
That'll give the potential (maybe) to have it drop down over top of a running Media director, regardless of what's running underneath.  You can tell me if that's feasible. But otherwise, I think it should be intercepting the keyboard like the Firefox wrapper.

I'd like it to be able to be called up with a hot-key over-top any running OSD Orbiter running on an MD (e.g.: during media playback). That might give you the ability to manually issue live commands, such as DCE router commands to a running device (like the Xine Player).

I've found some of the development stuff in the Wiki, know that a device has to be created, etc,... but I need to have some kind of starting place,...

So,... I have questions;
  1) What scripts, wiki entries and files should I be looking at first (Mozilla.sh comes to mind for a starting place)?
  2) Could it be restricted to certain users, and if so, set to su (or kdesudo) to the running user if authorized? & What examples should I look at to figure that out?
  3) If it can be given a hot key to launch, where are those defined, and where/what should I be looking at to get started?
  4) Can it be set to always be on top (meaning are you alright with that, not necessarily how is that done, I assume wmctrl would be used)?

Please keep in mind I don't know C, C++, PHP, Ruby, etc. ... but I can shell script adequately. 

keep on the path, dont let not knowing c#, c++, stop you. After all, you only have to learn it once. and if it comes down to it, ill help you write the c++ device.

-golgoj4

Hey...


2 alternative navigations for the home screen, but i still prefer the first one ( using longpress to call the flooplan ) ... :-) 

Home Screen with swipe navigation
http://dokuwiki.knallimall.org/de/linuxmce_qorbiter#home_screen_-_swipe_to_change_to_menu

Home Screen with tab navigation
http://dokuwiki.knallimall.org/de/linuxmce_qorbiter#home_screen_-_tab_navigation

ochorocho

what is the goal? to bring up the floorplan without it having a button?

-golgoj4

ok, something sounds like its going very wrong.

you have
1) updated the skins
2) got the latest from the market?

Have you tried doing a qOrbiter Regen? i.e. http://192.168.80.1/lmce-admin/qOrbiterGenerator.php?d=<yourdevice#>

Im very curious because menus are empty because there is nothing in the room / ea. I will look into this further...

-golgoj4

Nothing is finished or polished enough to share yet.  I have devoted a room of the house for devices I want or need to write support for.  I am getting closer all the time now though and getting really comfortable in a few languages.  Interfacing with lmce is the biggest hurdle for me to figure out so I have several USB bootable OS's next to these devices to make them go.

I just looked at another user's qOrbiter UI build and saw each of the announcements I am working on floating at the top of the interface...  Amazing work!

I will slowly continue writing things to run on my hardware but am getting the idea on why there seemed to be a lack of interest, my hardware is truly that old.  Golgoj4, for your efforts on the new orbiter I would mail you a HDD with everything I have up to now!  Here are the latest current projects.

weather-utils grabber/parser/reader.  Working from command but not in lmce. (espeak & festival versions)

Portal UI skin, probably 75% done though I need to polish some hard to test screens.  Just to calm any possible concerns I contacted Valve and am hoping for a go-ahead to make available to DL.

iOS UI skin, abandoned at about 50% complete but with rendered images to finish 2-3 different ways.

DIY security panel image for hp t5500. $5 thin client acting as IP based security system 0.02W device - logging is functional and since the sensors wire to a keyboard I just need to change my keymapper and add time stamps.  After that's working I am faced with the socket communication nightmare.

Half a IR light template for usbuirt, don't think any progress is likely from where I am stuck.


Can't think of many other software projects I have put any time into lately.  Have been doing alot of building instead on things like my charging cradles, in wall touchscreens and av switchers.  -I am up to running 4 rooms on my single hybrid core.  For the moment it's switched manually for rooms 3 and 4 but looking for an IR solution to that.

2 things

1) dont lose your work!!
2) always come by irc and ask a questions! Trust me on this one...the collective knowledge (even if sometimes delayed across time) is still really helpful in both the linuxmce ecosystem and in general.

I have a thought which i can pm you or something which ties into this in many ways

-golgoj4.

yeah because my current one is fugleeeeeee!



seriously, keep up the good work.

-golgoj4

one day, when i have a starship, i will already have the OS. Seriously, its the freakin starship enterprise alpha. thats why. for me.

-golgoj4

This currently, while nice, is somewhat irrelevant. QOrbiter currently doesnt support any of the user related features on android so while i understand the annoyance, its frankly low on the importance list until users become important.

Right now im trying to solve the media player / embedded ip phone connundrum so its a little low on my list.

The real question is, what phone do you have, and what version of Android are you running. Im running up against an issue where higher end Android devices have issues with our opengl settings, but not mid range and slightly older ones.

so whatcha got?

-golgoj4

back away...slowly...

its been weeks since the last message...i have nothing new in the svn from you

Nice langston is gone. Its time to cleanup around here. You got no buisness posting over here if you arent a developer. period. full stop. I've had it with this. Noise everywhere because people feel entitled to waltz in and setup shop spewing noise. enough.

If you wanna be in this section then you will figure out how to compile the damn thing yourself. Like a developer. because this is the developers section.

Consider this notice. to everyone making noise. There are like 10 people busting their asses and the rest are chillin. which is fine. but go chill in your sandbox and shutup when grown folks are talking.

-not too pleased golgoj4. you REALLY gonna make me become Z?

I bought an extra raspberry pi (which is in my hands as we speak) expressly for this purpose. I want to make little 'jarvis' type dce-connected devices that initially do simple things like

*give security status
*give overall home status

Is your stuff in the SVN?

-golgoj4

i like it so far. show me moar!!

-golgoj4