The Case for Ubuntu Phone

Re:The Case for Ubuntu Phone by rsync on Sunday January 15, 2017 @12:54PM (#13405248)

We really need something like "GNU phoneutils" ... a big package of command line utilities to control and manipulate a telephone.

I really, really want to do things like this:

  cat file | sms -send -n 4157771234

  grep mom addresses | awk (field with phonenumber) | dial --nobusy --retry 3

That is to say, I want a unix phone. I want to run the phone with unix and unix commands. Certainly not all of the time, but some of the time I would like the power to manipulate dialing/texting/answering in this way.

I am not aware of any utilities like this - collected in a big package or not ...

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Re:The Case for Ubuntu Phone by atmin on Sunday January 15, 2017 @03:37PM (#13406250)

You kinda can do it on Android via Termux: https://termux.com/add-on-api.html

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Re:The Case for Ubuntu Phone by digi_owl on Monday January 16, 2017 @01:40AM (#13408543)

Hrmf, 5.0 or newer. And here I was wondering if I could get some extra mileage out of my older devices...

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Re:The Case for Ubuntu Phone by dqv on Sunday January 15, 2017 @01:32PM (#13405503)

You could try freeswitch which has some fun cli stuff. mod_portaudio lets you make and take calls from your terminal (although you have to use fs_cli, but you can alias dial to fs_cli -x"pa call $1"). There are a few sms modules as well.

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Re:The Case for Ubuntu Phone by BuuQu9hu on Monday January 16, 2017 @04:06AM (#13408927)

Closest you can get is sending DBUS commands to oFono or FSO. Should be easy to write a command-line wrapper for those though.

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