Voice assistant button

[drand]

I'm one of those tinfoil-hatters who isn't keen on talking too much to Google, so I won't be using the dedicated voice assistant button. Does anyone know if said button can be mapped to a different function under android, or Linux?

[depscribe]

I'm one of those tinfoil-hatters who isn't keen on talking too much to Google, so I won't be using the dedicated voice assistant button. Does anyone know if said button can be mapped to a different function under android, or Linux?

Good question -- I had wondered that myself since hearing that Google waned to upload the phonebook to Google.

[vader]

I would think it is probably a standard GPIO, so under linux you should be able to do something. The question is will it be configured/enabled in the linux image, or will it require 3rd party support.

As a fellow tinfoil-hatter, I just didn't give a google login at setup, and use fdroid and at a pinch yalp to download apps. This limits what the voice assistant can do - you can ask it standard web search type things, or call a phone number (I mean the actual number not the name). You can say "Call 12345678", but not "Call home". I'm waiting for sailfish.....

[drand]

In the Charbax YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTU28QgYHdQ Davide states the button can answer/reject calls when the device is closed so planet have already baked into Android the ability to map it on the fly.

[Grench]

I'm waiting for sailfish.....

You are not alone.

We need someone from Jolla to join these boards.  Other than the comment from MWC and Planet showing a unit running Sailfish 3 beta, there hasn't been much for news on this front.