[Testing] NFC for Halium 9 ports

fredldotme

Maybe we can consolidate WIFI, Bluetooth and NFC into one indicator in the future, but that's out-of-scope for the initial release.

mateo_salta

@fredldotme yes, i think the plan is location, bluetooth, ect. as the other networking options are together, wifi, ethernet, cellular

mateo_salta

I think we would also want to build in automatic uri/url handling -
Many tags are written to launch a website/url, and we would want these to be sent to the url dispatcher automatically, would be simple to just call open url externally, url dispatcher takes care of the rest.

I have received new tags, and once written on another device the app i compiled reads then perfectly, we may need to recompile something to enable writing, as the code comments that it was disabled.

The tags I got are ntag 213 ( a watch style tag, and a ring style tag) I plan on writting a custom url (i think "clock://" to open the clock on the "watch band", then maybe we can see what it would take to make a password ring

fredldotme

@mateo_salta I've already taken a look into QtNfc not allowing writes, I know where to enable it. Might take some time though.

For the URL handling: Yes, this has also been requested by Nymea devs, but at the current pace it might not make the cut for OTA-17.

mateo_salta

@fredldotme cool, will be great to have the app usability at first, thank you for all the wor.

mateo_salta

@mateo_salta i could probally write a basic app that just passes on the url to urldispatcher as a stopgap, i think that will be my next thing to try

fredldotme

@mateo_salta Could you possibly release a version of your demo QtNfc writer app with the nfc policy group enabled? I would like to test it in a confined environment. Or even better, could you release the source code for it?

domubpkm

NFC should be in next dev :
https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/issues/1697
But in concrete terms, what will this technology implemented on UT smartphones allow us to do in daily use?

fredldotme

@domubpkm depends on what app developers can envision and implement with it. It could be used for home automation for example, triggering events via NFC tags.

kugiigi

I almost never used NFC in my life. Maybe once or twice I used it to automatically pair bluetooth devices
But that's why I'm really looking forward having it on UT because I'm pretty sure I will use it. I've used a lot things just because they are available on UT

mateo_salta

@fredldotme oh yeah, the source is in the example folders of qt-master, they have a handfull of demos, I will try the apparmor, didn't know that was going yet

mateo_salta

@kugiigi I'm looking foward to trying this example, ( https://github.com/qt/qtconnectivity/blob/8618e25e01ca9c6c6b2221041f625ac69f6757b8/examples/nfc/corkboard/corkboards.qml) and sticking some of the stickers on my refrigerator as notes

flohack

Is there already a test app? I have at least one device here where I would love to test it...

fredldotme

@flohack https://github.com/fredldotme/ut-nfc-ndef-demo and https://github.com/fredldotme/ut-nfcd-p2p-demo respectively

Luksus

@fredldotme I tried to build the p2p-demo with clickable, but get the error, that "nfc" is an unsupported policy-group... do I have to use some modified docker image for building this?

flohack

@fredldotme I meant a click to be installed for the lazy of us...

fredldotme

NFC support has been merged into Clickable just recently. Using Clickable from git will work.

@Flohack "teach a man to fish" and all

Luksus