[Maemo 5] HealthCheck - Pymaemo/Qt - Learning to code (N900)
 

Hi everyone,

as some will already know i am learning to code with python and Qt. I have to admit it has been a bit of hard work over the last few days, but today i seem to have mini break throughs :)

My idea may have already been used, but please bear-in mind that i am learning and each of these little things i am finding useful :)

My idea is/was a healthcheck app for the N900.
Ignoring the random bits in screenshots that make no sense, i hope you can see what i am aiming to do.

The first screenshot shows:

• The accelerometer read out (Does it work?)
• A static image taken from the front camera (Again, even though bad quality, does it work?)

The second image shows the readout from the terminal command dpkg -l.
I'm still to do an awful lot of work - and i know the layout is painful (But very finger friendly - :D:D:D), the positioning was done by hand today on the n900 - so just guessed at the positioning numbers :cool:

Anyway - will use this thread to update people as i go. Havn't done a usual announce thread directly - as well, i'm not sure it will be of use to anyone? :D

Further pages will hopefully show -

• Lists of applications installed (Maybe ability to uninstall, not sure yet!)
• List of repos enabled/disabled
• System info, such as maemo version and rootfs space free
• Possibly the ability to run commands such as apt-get clean etc.

Any comments and help would be very much appreciated - will post the code once i have tidied it up. (I have no previous proper knowledge of any of this stuff, just a bit of vb/asp/ada and sql knowledge! - so the coding is awful at the moment, and i havn't labeled things correctly! will do when i get time and near my pc!)


The code depends on having gstreamer installed (And i've read that the x-term code i used probably wasn't right, but works, so will leave it for now.). Happy to post the .py file if anyone fancies venturing into the unknown with me :D

On a final note, coding on the n900 may not be the easiest thing in the world, but wow it works well!!!

Re: HealthCheck - Pymaemo/Qt - Learning to code (N900)
 

a nice start indeed :) !
just a suggestion :
tabs are generally not very finger friendly IMHO, you could later perhaps with other enhancements release something with a button approach or multiple sub-window approach.

And this should be in the applications forum ;)

Re: HealthCheck - Pymaemo/Qt - Learning to code (N900)
 

Doh - good point on the apps forum - sorry could a mod please move it? :D

ooo - i did think that, but buttons / sub windows i havn't figured out yet - will try that after i figure out the parsing etc... :D - thanks for the info!

Have to admit, as i have made the text so big, they are very finger friendly for me, even with my fat thumbs! :D

Re: HealthCheck - Pymaemo/Qt - Learning to code (N900)
 

so no expert tips on parseing? hehehe
:D

Re: [Maemo 5] HealthCheck - Pymaemo/Qt - Learning to code (N900)
 

Love this idea!! I'm still waiting on an awesome sms counter :$

Re: [Maemo 5] HealthCheck - Pymaemo/Qt - Learning to code (N900)
 

i think someone else is doing this, so i won't tread on their toes! might add it on to here as a test though :)

thank you very much for the nice comment though!
any other additional ideas? :D

Re: [Maemo 5] HealthCheck - Pymaemo/Qt - Learning to code (N900)
 

nice ... you could really develop it into a great diagnostic app ..
i hear praises from all the n00bs .. including me :)

best of luck with it ..

Re: [Maemo 5] HealthCheck - Pymaemo/Qt - Learning to code (N900)
 

It would be really nice if you could comment (not much stuff, just the basics) and releash the code :D

Nice work, I'm also playing with Python (and GTK though) these days :)

Re: [Maemo 5] HealthCheck - Pymaemo/Qt - Learning to code (N900)
 

will definitley do that. gonna work towards doing a ver 1 this weekend :)
documenting my steps as i go :)

Re: [Maemo 5] HealthCheck - Pymaemo/Qt - Learning to code (N900)
 

ok.... latest update!

removed keyboard bit, havnt figured that out yet!
added battery status. might put a loading percentage bar in there!

accellerometer readout works fine.
enlarged front cam preview area. not had the latest update yet, so quality is still poor.

added a button to update the page, but can't figure out how to get a button to run a function!!

screenshot attached!