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Cosmo Communicator - Linux / Debian amnesia ...
« on: February 28, 2020, 06:37:08 pm »
I can't even figure out how to access the symbol keys... The Fn key acts as a super in Debian so I can't use that to access any of the extra symbols on my number line or the ones on IOP/JKL keys!  

Has anyone figured that part out yet?

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Cosmo Communicator - Android / Odd Behavior Thread
« on: December 15, 2019, 09:42:08 am »
My battery life has been very intermittent. Sometimes it'll last the day and a bit, others it'll drain by 60% within a few hours of not being used.

Also, I can't find a way to enable Android 9's gesture navigtion. For now I've turned the navigation bar off completelly and just do it via keyboard shortcuts.

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Cosmo Communicator - General Discussion / Belt cases for cosmo?
« on: December 14, 2019, 12:18:12 pm »
That black leather looks really nice! I do like that they've named the smooth brown colour 'crazy horse brown' as well  

Good to see they've actually added it as a standard option to avoid everyone making custom orders as well. Might have to get a crazy horse brown one to match my cowboy boots

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Cosmo Communicator - Hardware / Mouse for Cosmo
« on: December 14, 2019, 11:59:22 am »
I've got a mouse that has both a dongle and four Bluetooth 'slots'. Stick the dongle in my PC, first Bluetooth slot for my GPD Win, second for my Cosmo. Works a charm!  

It's a Rapoo MT750 something, basically on the better end of cheap chinese Aliexpress crap, but it works brilliantly and no trouble connecting to all the devices and switching between them instantly.

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Cosmo Communicator - CoDi / Media players in Cover Display
« on: December 09, 2019, 08:45:29 pm »
If that's the case, that only 'popular' apps work, I'm surprised Vinyl does, as it's just a small little FOSS player I pulled from F-Droid  Not a 'big player' at all.  

Are we sure it's not using some sort of common API (Whatever the Android equivalent to Mpris on Linux might be)?

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Cosmo Communicator - CoDi / Media players in Cover Display
« on: December 08, 2019, 09:10:53 am »
I've found some apps show up automatically on the cover but others don't - Vinyl Player from f-droid does, and my PC's media player (via KDE connect) does but that's it so far.

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Cosmo Communicator - General Discussion / Latest updates on Indiegogo
« on: July 27, 2019, 03:33:33 pm »
Quote from: Vistaus
Quote from: Piece_Maker
Quote from: MonkeyControl
A message from "The other side", (indiegogo)...
[!--quoteo(post=0:date=:name=Planet Computers : 1 hour ago)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(Planet Computers : 1 hour ago)[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]Big Cosmo backer update coming end of the day tomorrow!

And where is this quote from? No update today and it's well past Eod today in the UK

That was posted on July 11, look at the original post  And that update turned out to be Update #20.

New update (#21) is coming this weekend.
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My post was on the 12th (ie. the day after the 'end of day tomorrow' post), you should probably check the dates on posts before you try pointing out people who don't check dates on posts  

In all seriousness, I'm absolutely looking forward to this update more than anything else. Assuming nothing went wrong between the last update and now this could be the one we're all eagerly waiting for

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Cosmo Communicator - General Discussion / Latest updates on Indiegogo
« on: July 12, 2019, 06:11:11 pm »
Quote from: MonkeyControl
A message from "The other side", (indiegogo)...
[!--quoteo(post=0:date=:name=Planet Computers : 1 hour ago)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(Planet Computers : 1 hour ago)[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]Big Cosmo backer update coming end of the day tomorrow!
[/quote]

And where is this quote from? No update today and it's well past Eod today in the UK

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Thanks for the warm welcome Cyrill  

Chances are whatever Planet are using to interface with the outer screen with a 'regular' Linux install with work with Sailfish, unless it's specific to Xorg (as Sailfish uses Wayland and has no Xwayland support).  

I don't know for sure, but to me the external screen seems almost like a smartwatch in terms of functionality - it looks like it has its own interface, its own icons, its own way of displaying things (Rather than Android telling it how to display it, Android just pings it and says 'There's a new e-mail', and the screen pops up its own e-mail icon), which would make sense given what Planet have said about having its own processor and firmware and being accessible via API's. As such I'd imagine rudimentary support would be fairly quick to be implemented, as it'll mostly just be a case of firing the notification daemon at the screen's API. Maybe it'll need a second daemon similar to Rockpool (for Pebble watches) but if Jolla are serious about supporting the Cosmo they might bake it into their official image. Who knows!  

I think the interesting part will be making the 'selfie cam' functionality of the screen work. Planet showed in their videos someone using the Cosmo to take a selfie, with the lid shut and their face appearing on the outer screen, but then using the same camera with the lid open to take a normal photo. I can't imagine that'll be easy to get working in Sailfish, but again I'm sure someone will figure it out.

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Quote from: vader
Quote from: Cyril
- Front-panel : will the front panel be usable by Sailfish ? Will the API be open-sourced ? Keep the firmware closed-source, I don't mind, but open the API, please. The PC team is small and must be focused on providing the best Android experience because I think only a few bearded barbarians (like me) will use it with Linux or Sailfish. When they stabilise the API, I'm from those willing to take a peek on it, and maybe work on top of it.
That is the idea. I am sure they are working with Jolla to get it working on the cosmo. They have mentioned that it will be usable from all platforms.


For what it's worth, I e-mailed Planet about this before throwing my money at them, and their response went:  

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While I believe the device will support Linux and Sailfish, our primary focus is currently Android as that alone requires a lot of work to make it function with the external screen and it's dedicated chip. It is likely that the development of Sailfish on the Cosmo will be left to the Jolla team as it currently is.
 

Not overly promising to be honest, but as long as there's an open API to use I imagine there'll be someone who figures out how to make it happen. I'm hoping to use this as a primarily Sailfish device (With maybe a Debian dual boot), but I can live without the external screen for now

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