[maemo-developers] SMS and phone calls API of N900: will you give these to us?

[From: Quim Gil]

Hi,

ext Andrea Grandi wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I think now it's the time to ask this. Since when I did read about
> N900 rumors about being a phone, I was wondering if we had been able
> to use the SMS and phone calls functionality from a simple API.

fyi this question was raised last week at

Telephony API?
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=31038

My answer, pasted here for convenience:

There is no "Telephony API" as such and actually some of the use cases
you are listing seem to belong to other components. I didn't have the
time to ask today but Daniel/Soumya will look at this next week with the
aim of adding some clarity in the Maemo 5 Developer Guide.

So don't quote me on this but perhaps PulseAudio and Telepathy could be
the places to search for APIs related to voice calls and SMS. And then
there is DBus in the very middle of many other actions that you might be
relating to "Telephony".

> 
> What I mean? I mean, for example, that if I wanna create my own
> application that send an SMS or read it when it arrives I can do it.
> It would be usefull, for a lot of applications cases, to be able to
> send an SMS without user interaction or being able to read and parse
> some "magic" string.
> 
> Application case n°1: I'm in my office and I realize to have left my
> N900 at home. Oh sh**!
> The N900 is powered on but of course not connected to wifi and not
> connected to 3G network. So, how can I interact with it? That's
> simple. I send an sms to my phone with a particular "magic" string (it
> can be a simple password/keyword), a program in background on my N900
> read it and it knows it have to connect to Internet (wifi or 3G, it
> doesn't matter). Once is connected to internet it can send its IP to
> me or simply updating it trough DynDNS service. At this point I'm able
> to SSH into it and open an x11vnc session too and do... everything :)
> 
> Application case n°2: someone just stole my N900. Oh f***!!!
> I send an SMS to my phone in "silent mode". I mean that the background
> application receive it first and doesn't notify the system sms
> service. At this point it tries to do everything: starting up GPS,
> trying to get the exact postion and sending me back, taking pictures
> from the front camera and sending me back ecc.... wouldn't be useful?
> 
> Application case n°3: I want to record my calls (voip, normal calls,
> ecc...). How can I do it?
> 
> For all these cases, I think we need access to SMS/telephony APIs.
> 
> Will Nokia give us (developers) access to these API?
> 

-- 
Quim Gil
open source advocate
Maemo Devices @ Nokia