Thread: Phone control software

Ok, here's what I'm planning for the first version.

1. Phonebook
   
   • Sync (phone as master)
     AT command based sync complete, I'm using currently using OpenLdap as the backend since almost all mail clients support LDAP phonebooks, I will add plugins for direct sync to some popular mail clients when I'm done with core functionality Aditioanlly OBEX will come later, and will most likely come from existing projects.
   • Add, delete, update
     I'll implement this as a reverse delta sync, which means read phone, compare with LDAP, push changes if any
   • Number clasification (Home/Cell/Office)
     Works well for SE phones, I will have to check with other models to see how this information. OBEX to be added here too.
2. Call
   
   • Call from addressbook
   • Display incoming call and answer
   • Dial a number from keypad
3. SMS
   
   • Read PDU Format done
   • Send
   • Delete
   • Addressbook correlation
   • Voice playback through festival
4. Call Divert
   
   • All standard divert functions
5. Basic GUI for test purposes.

I will be concentrating mostly on having the functionality and very little will be done on the user interface for now.

There is another group out there that do some of that, open source, you might want to check them out and save you some time on unique coding.
They are what I use right now.
http://www.bitpim.org/

I don't use a phone control soft but for me, one vital part of any APP is the ability of being skinnable.

Thanatos.

Originally Posted by thanatos106

I don't use a phone control soft but for me, one vital part of any APP is the ability of being skinnable.
Thanatos.

Noted, and added to the requirements.
Also there will be a command line version if others want to use the back end and createor their own frontends.

Originally Posted by Das

There is another group out there that do some of that, open source, you might want to check them out and save you some time on unique coding.
They are what I use right now.
http://www.bitpim.org/

Yes, there are projects out there that do some of what I want to achieve, so where possible I will be reusing other open soure code. My project will also be open.

Hi, what Program Language do you plan to use?
Will be te software similar to PhoneControlNet? it woulkd be great to have something similar to this, but in linux.

Originally Posted by daristiz

Hi, what Program Language do you plan to use?
Will be te software similar to PhoneControlNet? it woulkd be great to have something similar to this, but in linux.

The idea is to do something similar. Language is not yet fully decided. I'm currently prototyping with python for the message processing and C for the serial IO and interrupt handling. Once I'm happy with the encoding and decoding algorithms for the SMS formats, IO and interrupt handling I will rewrite it all in C++.

In it's initial form (for my test purposes) it will work from the command line only. When the I'm happy with this I will proceed to a GUI.

being able to use the comp as a car kit type speaker phone is important, i like that you have the voice playback of sms on there

Well i don't know if it's usefull to make yet another project as this one already exists and runs well here's the link but sorry if i'm wrong and didn't understood right

http://www.gnokii.org/
http://www.gnokii.org/screenshots.shtml

The only thing needed is to build a front-end.