Add support for cross-compilation to armv7

[mariusor]

Enable meson cross compilation for creating builds for armv7.

Ideally using the Mer environment and scratchbox2 toolkit - this makes it easier to start creating builds using the Mer OBS instance.

[mariusor]

Made some progress with this using Mer Project's OBS. Still not finished.

[Thaodan]

Maybe add the rpm to the repo (or add another with this as submodule) to build using tar_git in obs?

[mariusor]

Hi, thank you for your comment, but unfortunately I'm not very knowledgeable about OBS or creating RPM packages. Do you have some links for me to read in order to understand what you mean?

[Thaodan]

You can create a _service file where obs pics up your services.
Tar_git makes a tar out of your repo and makes it available as build source to obs.
You can either point to a stable commit or make rebuild everytime you push something using webhooks.
See a pkg of mine as an example:
https://build.merproject.org/package/view_file/home:Thaodan:testing/communi-sailfish/_service?expand=1

[mariusor]

Thank you very much, I'll take a look.

Are you directly interested in this project so I should increase its priority, or did you just drop by to help and I can take my time?

[Thaodan]

I'm interresed. I used the maemo-scrobbler before but its based on a Nokia framework and can't be ported.
A accounts plugin to catch oauth token would be great.

[mariusor]

I have already the latest version built on OBS: https://build.merproject.org/project/show/home:habarnam:mpris-scrobbler

However I think some of the repositories that depend on it have changed and it doesn't build correctly any more. However I think you should be able to install the package manually from the avilable rpm.

To generate the credentials file you will probably need to use a desktop machine unfortunatelly, that's how I generated mine and then copied them to the phone. I have another project mpris-scrobbler-signon that will fulfill this function in the long term. However it's not functional yet... maybe you can take a look and provide some insights there. :) (No pressure, though)

Caveats:
1/ libre.fm has been taken down by the GNU people, only last.fm and listenbrainz.org are still usable Nevermind, still works.
2/ I was using the scrobbler with Spotify and the android version available for SailfishOS doesn't fill all the MPRIS data required for a valid scrobble submission, so it doesn't work. Other players might be better, though.
3/ the projects are not high priority for me right now while I'm working on something else, so while any help is appreciated, I won't be fully invested in them for a while.

[Thaodan]

Can you point out whats missing inside the signon plugin?
I thought of creating a plugin that collects the ouath key like the google plugin but just writes it to a text file.
This sounds much better.

[Thaodan]

For me librefm is still online?

[mariusor]

So, the signon-helper in the current state contains just the services/providers for the 3 scrobbling APIs as used by the Sailfish OS accounts manager.

If you install it in the SDK they show up in Settings > Accounts. But there's no functionality implemented for any of them.

The authentication steps for libre/last.fm are the same, detailed in the README.

For listenbrainz it just needs a password input box to put the token from the listenbrainz profile page. Also detailed in the README

To be useful it also needs to implement an ini file writer to path ~/.local/share/mpris-scrobbler/credentials with the data obtained.

For detailed steps, see the get_session() and get_token() functions in the signon.c file.

So basically it's just what you said, only with a pretty Accounts UI. :)

[mariusor]

For me librefm is still online?

INFO    scrobbler::now_playing: Likeim//Carpathian Forest//Likeim
INFO     api::submitted_to[libre.fm]: ok

I guess you're right... I thought I saw a message from Matt Lee saying he's unplugging the servers.

[Thaodan]

Could the demon not retrieve the credentials from signond?

[mariusor]

I don't know... probably, but I would not want to have the scrobbler too much tied into the sailfish os infrastructure. I'll investigate.

[Thaodan]

Signond is used by Kaccounts and maybe GNOME too.
That is maybe a good why to handle logins.