System Info module not integrated with platform

[Pat McGowan]

The DeviceInfo item provides correct information for some functions on both desktop and Touch
The BatteryInfo items do not yield correct results in any case.
Did not try the other interfaces

libqt5systeminfo5:
  Installed: 5.0~git20130123-0ubuntu1~test2

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

I can provide a test program if it is helpful

[Florian Boucault (fboucault)]

Yes it would be helpful to have a test program. Also a rundown of the methods/properties that do not return the appropriate values would help.

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

See lp:~pat-mcgowan/+junk/SystemInfo

Running the test app will indicate which APIs are not yet integrated

[Loïc Molinari (loic.molinari)]

QtSystemInfo is a QML plugin exposing the QSystem* classes from the Qt Mobility Components. It currently has backends for Windows, Maemo, Symbian, Mac as well as a generic Linux one. We might need to provide our own Ubuntu backend.

[Loïc Molinari (loic.molinari)]

http://qt.gitorious.org/qt-mobility/qt-mobility/trees/master/src/systeminfo

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

bumping priority based on recent discussions for system settings and networking info

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

Saucy received a qtsystems archive upload of a newer 20130614 snapshot last Friday. That build didn't add anything related to this bug directly, but shortly after that some oFono build fixes have been done upstream. On request from seb128 I did a test build of that, compiled with the non-default CONFIG+=ofono parameter, in qt5-beta2 PPA (https://launchpad.net/~canonical-qt5-edgers/+archive/qt5-beta2/+packages).

With that git master and oFono support, running Pat's test program on my Nexus 4, I get the attached backtrace related to imei reading. If the same code is compiled without CONFIG+=ofono, the test program again works (without IMEI or such information). It's probable the support was just made to compile, but is otherwise outdated and would need further fixing.

Loïc: Qt5 qtsystems upstream address http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qtsystems

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

> If the same code is compiled without CONFIG+=ofono, the test program again works (without IMEI or such information)

right, the IMEI information comes from ofono, without ofono the code just returns doing nothing... seems like a bug in the ofono integration, might be worth reporting upstream if they have a bug tracker

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

Separated the crash issue to bug #1199813 and also filed upstream bug report, linked there.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Not sure if we want specific bugs about specific issues?

Currently get the model/manufacturer on the device fails, qtsystems is trying to read /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_name or there is not "dmi" in on the device (it works on an Ubuntu desktop though)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

same issue for the deviceid, it tries to read /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_uuid

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Lorn Potter (lorn-potter)]

There is a manual test app included with qtsysteminfo called sysinfo-tester. You have to manually build this.

I can go though this on the phone, see what is missing, wrong, etc. and fix it up.

It tries a variety of ways to determine different values..

[Lorn Potter (lorn-potter)]

just a note, some of the missing values in deviceinfo can be gotten from hybris properties, such as in ubuntu-system-settings

[Lorn Potter (lorn-potter)]

another note to self: /etc/machine-info

[Lorn Potter (lorn-potter)]

Related bugs:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-ui-toolkit/+bug/1525879
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-system-settings/+bug/1549314