Indra is now available on the OpenStore!

https://next.open-store.io/app/indra.projectmoon/

This thread will serve as a sort of unofficial support thread for now. Proper issues/bugs/feature requests should be done on the issue tracker.

Indra is a Ubuntu Touch app for off-grid communication using LoRa (long range) mesh radios. You can text friends, family, and neighbors without an internet connection. Messages are sent via the radio, which connects to other radios nearby to form a network completely separate from traditional communication infrastructure.

You need an external radio to use this app. They are cheap to build or buy, and a one-time investment in off-grid communication. Indra currently supports radios running Meshtastic firmware. You can connect to your radio over Bluetooth, the local network, or a USB cable (depending on your radio).

The app currently does not support configuring or setting up your radio; please use the Android/iOS app or the Meshtastic web client at https://client.meshtastic.org to set up your radio or change its settings.

This is a work-in-progress app. The initial release supports what the author considers the essential, core features of Meshtastic. Currently supported features:

• Connect to a configured radio over Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or USB.
• Send messages to public channels, private channels, or directly to other users on the mesh.
• View and search the list of other radios that your radio is picking up.

Things currently NOT supported:

• Configuring the radio. Please use the Android/iOS app or Meshtastic web client to set up the radio.
• Showing positions of radios on the map (next major feature to be implemented).

@bgriffis check KeePassRX on the Open Store.

Disclaimer: I am the creator of KeePassRX.

Documentation: https://agnos.is/projects/keepassrx/

I've taken the liberty of packaging Lagrange for Ubuntu Touch. Lagrange uses its own completely custom C-based UI stack built on top of SDL/OpenGL, which means that while it runs fine, the keyboard does not work out of the box on Ubuntu Touch. The UT package has a patch that 1) enables the keyboard and 2) packages it as a .click.

There are still some issues with the keyboard and integration with the system. Namely:

1. Clipboard does not work.
2. Keyboard still has some weird behavior on textboxes that aren't the URL bar. You cannot edit text in the middle of them, for example.
3. No integration with content hub.
4. No integration with URL dispatcher (i.e. cannot open gemini links in Lagrange).

I think most of these should be solvable. I will continue working on it and see what comes out.

You can find Lagrange here: https://next.open-store.io/app/fi.skyjake.lagrange/

After seeing the Hydroxide app on OpenRepos.net for Sailfish OS, I was inspired to port it to Ubuntu Touch. A few crazy ideas later, and it's now a Rust app that runs the official Proton Mail Bridge instead of Hydroxide (alternative bridge).

So, this means you can now connect directly to Proton Mail with Dekko, or any other e-mail client you manage to get running on your UT device.

Find it in the Open Store: https://next.open-store.io/app/projectmoon.hydronium/

This thread will serve as a basic support/questions thing. For more detailed bug reports. please file an issue in the repository. I am particularly interested in any problems with the bridge itself, especially around the untested secondary mailbox password login.

Indra 1.2.1 is now available with a laundry list of improvements and fixes. Find it at https://next.open-store.io/app/indra.projectmoon/ or https://git.agnos.is/projectmoon/indra/releases/tag/v1.2.1.

• Feature: Make links clickable in messages.
• Feature: Add the ability to search and filter nodes on the map.
• Feature: De-duplicate messages that are likely rebroadcasts.
• Feature: Show hops away/signal strength on messages.
• Feature: Add/remove favorite nodes.
• Improvement: New message footer layout.
• Improvement: Better node list appearance in dark mode.
• Improvement: Tweaks to the choice of black or white text for messages in dark mode. More readable.
• Improvement: Add node ID to the node info page.
• Improvement: Show node distance on the map, and sort by distance.
• Improvement: New map icon.
• Improvement: Pull to refresh the node list.
• Improvement: Proper status indicators for sending messages.
• Improvement: Show channel/conversation status indicators on main view.
• Improvement: Add a setting to toggle forced Bluetooth reset.
• Improvement: Add a setting to control how long it takes before a node is considered offline.
• Improvement: Add a setting to control the message de-duplication window.
• Improvement: Translation updates.
• Fix: Apply the default channel name to the public channel no matter its index.
• Fix: Fix a UI lockup when reconnecting to the radio.
• Fix: No more UI flickering when disconnecting from the radio.
• Fix: More efficient refreshing of the node list.

@undrwater also, since this is not built in, you could check out @kugiigi's Ambot Installer and install MariKit. It does what you want. Slide left or right from middle-ish of the bottom edge of the screen and it's gestures ahoy.

https://next.open-store.io/app/indra.projectmoon/

Indra is now available on the OpenStore, with all the fixes in Alpha 4 and a few more tweaks! From this point forward, the database will be treated as something that needs to be migrated instead of wiped on every update. (The setting in the menu to wipe the database does not actually do anything, and will be removed).

@gwado Pretty sure there is no "policy," as such. There are a handful of AI-generated apps on the Open Store currently. Individual developers/maintainers may like or dislike the use of LLM code generation, but there is nothing banning such apps from the store.

@nparafe Like I said, the snap does not fully integrate with the system due to scaling and keyboard issues. It's probably possible to use it with a physical keyboard, but I don't have one paired to the phone.

@developerbayman dunno about a lot of that, but some things I notice that are missing: xdg handling, IPC over dbus for confined apps, auto fill API.

@brenno.almeida same result. Browser shows error empty response. And then connection refused on refresh (because app crashed).

@developerbayman dunno about a lot of that, but some things I notice that are missing: xdg handling, IPC over dbus for confined apps, auto fill API.

@brenno.almeida tried logging in. The app crashes after completing oauth flow and crashes on open every time afterwards. Oddly, there's no exception in the logs?

@Vlad-Nirky said:

@projectmoon
In this test, I have sent messages in the following order
UT message 1
Android message 2
Android message 3
UT message 4
UT message 5
Result on Indra

I have seen this before. It's not a latency problem but rather some kind of lock up with the async runtime. I haven't experienced it in a long timed. Do you have app suspension disabled in UT Tweak Tool? And how are you connected to the radio with Indra?

@pparent said:

@projectmoon

Ok well I don't know, are you testing with a specific wifi network with captive portal? Does it support RFC 8910 and RFC 8908, or is it legacy? Did you try with other wifi networks?

Ps: You can also retry with mobile data disabled, sometimes it's better.

Disabling mobile data didn't help. The app receives the captive portal URL, but I get connection refused. I don't think this has anything to do with the captive portal helper. I thought it might be uAdblock, but seems no. So, no idea. I also have no idea if the captive portal is RFC or legacy.

@Vlad-Nirky good to heaven. Can you be more specific about latency issues?

@pparent yeah I got the notification and opened the app from it. But i couldn't load the page. But I think that it's a problem with my network configuration.

Ok I had to fix ownership and perms on the script. Portal app loads, but not the portal itself. But that's not the fault of the portal app.

@pparent so I was not able to get this script or app to work. Is there something I should look for in the logs?

@Vlad-Nirky said:

@projectmoon
Hello.
I’ve done my research.
I’ve just bought two cards to try out.
I’ll let you know if I run into any issues with the app.
I’m really looking forward to trying this out!
Thanks for this app!

Good luck. Hope your mesh is nice and big and stable.