[maemo-developers] Enhanced Recorder App

[From: Rainer Dorsch]

Thomas,

that is good news. I will look first if I can access the headset button from 
python, then I look at more detail into recaller.

I collected three links which refer to getting access to the headset button. 
It seems to me that getting events from that button is not trivial on the 
N900:
http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/view/headset_button_input_reader/
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1553
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=21182

Will investigate further,
Rainer

Am Thursday 13 May 2010 16:42:34 schrieb Thomas Waelti:
> Perhaps you could help me to add this function to my recaller widget? It's
> written in Python and the source can be downloaded fro the repos. That
> would be the easiest way for sure.
> -Tom
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am looking for a recorder which is able to start recording and stop
> > recording when the button at the headset is pressed. Usecase: phone is
> > somewhare in the pocket and I want to do recording.
> >
> > I did not see an app able to do this. Now I am wondering how much effort
> > it would be to create a simple app like this myself (I am a programer,
> > have scratchbox setup, but no hildon and codec experience).
> >
> > Spec of the up:
> >
> > - Three buttons: New, Save, Start/Stop recording
> > - Start/Stop recording should also work from headset button when
> > recording up is up and screen blancked.
> >
> > What I would appreciate are answers to
> > - Is there an app which I could take as starting point?
> >
> > Depending on what is missing of the app if there is any
> > - Pointer to a hello world app with buttons
> > - Would you rather recommend C or python (I am more fluent in C/C++, but
> > I see a lot of python apps and applets)?
> > - Pointer to codec to use for audio encoding
> > - Pointer how to use headset button.
> >
> > I certainly tried recorder and filed a bug report
> > https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9903 some time ago. Since the
> > author has a Nokia address Marko Nykanen <marko.ja.nykanen at nokia.com> I
> > suspect recorder has a closed source license Nokia app. Since there is no
> > action on the bug report I assume Nokia has no interest in supplying that
> > features and since source code is not available it is also impossible to
> > enhance the existing app.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rainer