[idea] open pairing jolla protocol for jolla-phone, jolla-tablet like "bonjour"

asked 2015-01-17 21:37:44 +0200

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Hey guys...

While reading this: https://together.jolla.com/question/63867/request-jolla-tablet-idea-jolla-tablet-jolla-smartphone-pairingcommunication/ I had an idea:

A "magic" and open protocol like Apple's "bonjour" between jolla and jolla-tablet could be really cool. I have in mind something like what Apple did with OSX and IOS, for example: when you receive an SMS on IOS device you can read and answer on OSX platform or you can also reading a file (pdf, music, images) from a other devices where it's stored on (like sharing library on Itunes).

The idea is to have an open protocol implemented on the sailfish 2.0 (that will make the communication between phone and tablet) and from here we can do something like receive a call on jolla phone and answer with the tablet, or read music that is on the tablet with the phone... And live this protocol open and documented to let weird guy (like me) make a client on other platform (like desktop) and make awesome things with it. If I see something like that I will personally make a desktop linux client !

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While not totally related to what you ask if you want bonjour/avahi/zeroconf on jolla please upvote this

https://together.jolla.com/question/10733/add-support-for-avahi-aka-zeroconf/

ApB ( 2015-01-18 00:22:31 +0200 )edit

thanks I've upvoted it and I will see what happen on this thread

NeWin ( 2015-01-18 13:34:04 +0200 )edit

The building blocks are there and probably aren't difficult to use. There's even an application that uses Bonjour to do what you described: It forwards SMS messages to your PC (running Windows, OSX or GNU/Linux) so you can answer them there. It's called Squillaand is available at OpenRepos.net.

The other issue is if all of the functionality you desire can be implemented as core functions of the OS. It is not unlikely that patents prevent that.

ossi1967 ( 2015-01-18 16:08:13 +0200 )edit

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I'd like to be able to connect to my (Linux) pc as well. PIM and file syncing is one thing, but I often would like to be able to manage the phone from my full-sized keyboarded, moused, multi-GHz, dual monitor desktop pc in front of me. Things as SSH and friends (SFTP, SSHFS) are nice and all, but not for everyone and everything. VNC would be a nice extra at times. Back in the day, the Nokia N95 had a "personal webserver" run on the device, which allowed you to manage quite a bit from within a (any) browser. Even today it wouldn't be a bad idea. And with the advances in HTML5 video and javascript engines capable of acting as VNC client, nice things are possible, and accessible for many. Thanks to zeroconf/bonjour a simple http://jolla.local would suffice on many pc's.

Fuzzillogic ( 2015-01-22 22:26:40 +0200 )edit

Imagine to port a webserver plus appl.srv like php or tomcat to sailfishOS. That would give developers the possibility to foster tools mentioned above.

lakutalo ( 2015-01-23 23:14:29 +0200 )edit

not sur if a php server is a good idea in term of battery life (it could be pretty heavy if you want to implement a lot of thigs) the performance of the ARM can become a problem and a lot user (like me) perfere to have a cool light and fast local app instead of a random heavy and slow web browser

NeWin ( 2015-01-24 09:12:22 +0200 )edit

Rigid & lightweight, of course :-)

lakutalo ( 2015-01-24 12:03:06 +0200 )edit

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