[SailfishDevel] Read device info

[Dylan Van Assche]

Hi,

Thanks for the comments :)
I will take a look at those files...

Cheers,
Dylan

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [SailfishDevel] Read device info
> Local Time: 18 August 2017 1:59 PM
> UTC Time: 18 August 2017 11:59
> From: penkrat8 at gmail.com
> To: Dylan Van Assche <dylan.van.assche at protonmail.com>, Sailfish OS Developers mailing list <devel at lists.sailfishos.org>
>
> All software updates are distributed with OTAs and each OTA should increment Sailfish version number, so knowing this number should be enough.
> And it's easier to obtain. Do apps even have any access to PackageKit?
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew Penkrat
>
> On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 at 14:47 Adam Pigg <adam at piggz.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Would it not be better to query the version of required packages?
>>
>> On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 at 12:46 Andrew Penkrat <penkrat8 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Dylan,
>>>
>>> You can read SFOS version from VERSION_ID line of /etc/os-release and device name from NAME line of /etc/hw-release. Though it claims my Jolla C is actually an Intex Aqua Fish :)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Andrew Penkrat
>>>
>>> On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 at 13:44 Dylan Van Assche via Devel <devel at lists.sailfishos.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi devs,
>>>>
>>>> Does somebody has a way to read the information displayed on the About Page in Settings?
>>>> I would like to retrieve the SFOS version, Device name, ... not for spying/collecting data (totally against that) but to check if some new features of SFOS are available for my apps.
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>> Dylan Van Assche
>>>>
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