[SailfishDevel] No QSerialPort

[wsvries]

Thanks.

Philippe De Swert schreef op 2014-03-27 14:53:
> On 27/03/14 15:42, wsvries wrote:
>> Thanks for the answers.
>> And yes, Herald, I did read some stuff on the OTG.
>> It's just that I had been using OTG on the other platforms
>> (ubuntu/meego) without noticing it.
> 
> You probably have not been using OTG on those platforms. There are no
> phones/tablets out there with Ubuntu (apart from a few you can flash
> yourself) that have OTG. Actually very few mobile devices actually
> support it, and even then most of those not out of the box but with
> hacks and mods for the power etc...
Here I mean the ubuntu note/netbooks and the WeTab tablet.

>> And for the fully functional 3D version I will have to switch to 
>> ubuntu
>> phone. Several devices with OTG up there.
> 
> Indeed some Ubuntu supported phones do, with mods most of the time.
> Although they are more exception than rule.
Saw at least galaxy nexus, nexus7 and 10, but all to be flashed.

> Otoh there has been experimenting going on the Jolla to support host
> mode. (Which is OTG like, in the sense that the port gets manually
> switched and it does not deliver power unlike a real OTG port.)
Power could be supplied via a battery powered hub, I guess.

> https://github.com/nemomobile/usb-moded/commit/44ebf5d79606a2ecb305e58ae71450dfe8853d16
> 
> More experimenting with this is expected to happen on some coming
> Jolla hack day to see if it can be made to work.
I'll certainly keep a close look.




> Regards,
> 
> Philippe
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