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Important note

2019-01-04 - Since I don't own anymore an android device, I'm not able to develop it... so, developpement is stopped so far. Please check the fork Conecto started by @hannesschulze

EOSConnect

It's a KDEConnect client using GTK+ written in Vala, based on mconnect. The application is designed for elementary OS. (but should works on other distributions, perhaps.)

A note on mconnect. First version of EOSConnect used a custom fork of mconnect, extending his DBus API, so used as a backend, started by EOSConnect at startup. But I encoutered lot's of issues with async DBus calls in order to setup mconnect backend correctly, and EOSConnect began to have too much files and abstractions classes - in order to be able to change the backend later. So I decided to integrate directly mconnect code into EOSConnect, removing his DBus API. It removed lot's of code in EOSConnect and I was able to setup and adapt mconnect like I want easily.

Warning

It's a Work In Progess, not intented for daily use.

Screenshots

Main window

SMS tab

Send a SMS without using SMS tab

It's searching in available adressbooks, or you can use a custom phone number.

Send file(s) to device

You can send files to device from Files's context menu. (or from the Dock's quick list.)

Dock integration

Installation

• On Ubuntu or elementary OS, install these dependencies:

sudo apt install elementary-sdk libunity-dev libnotify-dev libghc-gnutls-dev libsqlite3-dev libedataserver1.2-dev libebook1.2-dev -y

• Clone the repository.
• Inside the project, compile with:

meson build && clear && ninja -C build && glib-compile-schemas ./data/

• Start application
  • Start from the build directory:

  GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR=data ./build/src/com.github.gyan000.eos-connect 
  

  • Start with complete debug output:

  GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR=data ./build/src/com.github.gyan000.eos-connect -d
  

• To install it:

sudo ninja -C build install

Known issues

• When launching app, sometimes, configured device, not connected on local network, does not appears as "not connected".
• When launching app, sometimes, need to unlock phone/tablet in order to see the device "connected".
• When started for the first time from build directory, quicklist not available.

Roadmap

v0.1

• Import mconnect, remove useless stuff.
• List available devices.
• Use Tablet or Phone or Computre icons in devices list.
• Pair automatically.
• Plugin configuration by device: plugin list, custom name.
• List configured device in dynamic quicklist.
• Dconf: global setting and by device settings.

v0.2 - ping

• Send / receive ping, with notification.
• Ping plugin configurarion. (button to send a ping.)

v0.3 - battery

• Receive notification when battery below a threshold.
• Battery plugin configuration. (option to setup charge percentage warning)
• Show battery percentage in dynamic quicklist.

v0.4 - notification

• Send / receive notifications.
• Notification plugin configuration. (configuration window to activate/deactivate send/receive notifications globally and by application, with application filter.)
• Synchronise notifications on both devices. (when notification closed on a device, it should close on the other device.)

v0.4 - share

• Send one or more files, with popup with file advancement.
• Receive files, with advancement using launcher api to display progress bar on the icon in the dock.
• Share plugin configuration. (option to setup default save folder)
• Add option to Files's context menu to send file(s) to a device.

v0.5 - SMS

• Send / receive SMS, with SMS notification.
• Option to display SMS tab in dynamic quicklist.
• Tab in main window with SMS history by contact.
• Add an icon on header bar to send SMS to one or more contacts.
• Use libedataserver & libebook to get available adressbooks and take contacts with mobile phone. (and use contact photo if available)
• Widget to send SMS, with input text and dropdown to select available device, which can send a SMS. (to use in the widget send SMS fom header bar, and into the SMS tab.)
• When entering phone number or contact name in SMS widget from headerbar, display available contacts, with photo.
• Use sqlite3 to store SMS by phone number. (and be able to scroll back in the history)
• When user do not want to store SMS with sqlite, use a dummy SMS store.
• General option, for all devices, to activate or not the storage of SMS history.
• SMS plugin configuration. (to setup how many days of history we want to keep)

v0.5.1 - Telephony

• Display who's calling, with contact photo if available.
• Make sure we display notification when call missed.
• Telephony plugin configuration.

v0.7 - Commands

• Execute commands.
• Command plugin configuration. (configuration window with available commands for remove device)

v0.8 - Clipboard

• Copy / past working. (in both direction ?)
• Clipboard plugin configuration.

v0.9 - Multimedia control

• Multimedia control plugin configuration.

v0.9.1 - Remote control

• Remote control plugin configuration

v1

• Remove refresh icon at bottom of devices list.
• Unpair device, with icon at bottom of devices list.
• Option, when unpairing a device, to delete everything: configuration, SMS history.
• Welcome screen, with how-to setup.
• Option to setup public visible name of EOSConnect.
• Translations: french.
• Code cleanup.