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=== Bluetooth ===
=== Bluetooth ===
Needs https://github.com/NixOS/mobile-nixos/pull/396
Working with:
 
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mobile.boot.stage-1.firmware = [
  config.mobile.device.firmware
];
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=== Alarm clocks ===
=== Alarm clocks ===

Revision as of 11:37, 11 August 2021

PinePhone is supported by Mobile NixOS: https://mobile.nixos.org/devices/pine64-pinephone.html

This guide is discusses how to use Phosh, the GNOME-derived UI used by Librem and Mobian.

Requirements

This document assumes you have set up NixOS on your PinePhone, as described in https://mobile.nixos.org/getting-started.html

Beware known issues:

Status

Phosh

https://github.com/NixOS/mobile-nixos/pull/352 is a PR to add a phosh-demo to mobile-nixos. The author of this wiki page uses this PR.

Battery

Wake-on-modem works. Wake-on-WiFi is not supported. Something like https://gist.github.com/Peetz0r/bf8fd93a60962b4afcf2daeb4305da40 is needed.

Browsing

Sound

Working. Settings -> Sound ->Output -> Configuration -> HiFi

Calling

Working with the following (pr: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/131695/ ):

environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.calls ];
services.dbus.packages = [ pkgs.callaudiod ];

Known issues:

SMS

Working with:

environment.systemPackages = [
  (pkgs.chatty.override {
    plugins = [
      pkgs.purple-mm-sms
    ];
  })
];

MMS

Unsupported. See https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/chatty/-/issues/30

Camera

pkgs.megapixels is the only known application to work with Pinephone. Does not always start correctly, retrying might help.

Mobile internet

Working (imperative), with:

$ nmcli c add type gsm ifname cdc-wdm0 con-name $PROVIDER apn $APN

Other distributions use Librem's fork of gnome-control-center which has a mobile internet panel. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/merge_requests/583 tracks the upstreaming of this functionality.

GPS

Working with GNOME applications with:

services.geoclue2.enable = true;
users.users.geoclue.extraGroups = [ "networkmanager" ];

Sensors

The acceleration, compass, and ambient light sensors provide working auto-rotation, compass, and auto-brightness, when you:

hardware.sensor.iio.enable = true;
hardware.firmware = [ config.mobile.device.firmware ];

Disk encryption

The boot process supports opening LUKS volumes. Creating an image to use LUKS is unsupported, but possible. The idea is to write an encrypted LUKS volume to the root partition, as described in https://github.com/NixOS/mobile-nixos/tree/master/examples/testing/qemu-cryptsetup.

Hardware acceleration for video

See https://github.com/NixOS/mobile-nixos/issues/398.

Torch

See https://github.com/NixOS/mobile-nixos/issues/379

Bluetooth

Working with:

mobile.boot.stage-1.firmware = [
  config.mobile.device.firmware
];

Alarm clocks

Not working:

Recommended applications

See https://linmobapps.frama.io/ for a list of applications that behave well on small screens, including:

  • pkgs.gnome.gnome-chess
  • pkgs.gnome.gnome-podcasts
  • pkgs.portfolio-filemanager
  • pkgs.numberstation - TOTP

See https://circle.gnome.org too.

See also