Author Archives: twongkee

now set the cli to capture full resolution image, and see the return of the triangular dots, first seen with ppp-cam. all the settings were “try what worked” not sure if they are optimal, or even correct or consistent. now … Continue reading →

Finally got around to looking at the cli commands and the pinephonepro camera. the new device, is slightly more complex that the docs I found:installed utility “dot” ( sudo apt install graphviz ) to view the structure of the settings:run … Continue reading →

mobian megapixels working from this build: branch ‘linux-megi-6.1’ of https://github.com/kgmt0/megapixels have been apt updating files and am currently running: Linux mobian 6.1-rockchip #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Jan 12 12:05:39 UTC 2023 aarch64 GNU/Linux the default megapixels does not seem to … Continue reading →

since I have an sd card with the manjaro-ppp version installed, updated my mobian sd card with apt update, so now uname -a shows Linux mobian 5.19-rockchip #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat Oct 15 15:03:36 UTC 2022 aarch64 GNU/Linux and copied … Continue reading →

downloaded an October 2022 dev image of Manjaro phosh: Manjaro-ARM-phosh-pinephonepro-20221008.img.gz and installed megapixels-ppp works! the default rear image is 1048×780, but modifying the file /usr/share/megapixels/config/pine64,pinephone-pro.ini one can change the resolution. Is a bit darker? did click and change the camera … Continue reading →

for the long weekend here in North America (Friday off in Canada, Monday off in US) had some time to again look at the pinephone pro. downloaded the July 1 manjaro plasma dev image: https://github.com/manjaro-pinephone/plasma-mobile-dev/releases/tag/202207010605 and also ppp-cam testing utility: … Continue reading →

got my python setup and running remote, with MS Code, on my laptop, connected remotely via SSH to pinephone pro. MS Code has a very useful capability “Remote Development using SSH“. Briefly, it lets me use my favorite big screen/keyboard … Continue reading →