Please add distro to known OS's

nieldk commented 9 years ago

Please add the Jolla phone, It works quite well if I fake Debian release. But spits out wrong OS by default: {~]$ lsb_release -ri Distributor ID: Mer Release: 0.2011

mauricioschneider commented 9 years ago

Hello @nieldk,

Not long ago we were contacted by the Jolla phone guys because they were porting our Android app to Sailfish OS. Does the Jolla phone has some sort of app store? If so, have you checked in there for the Prey app?

nieldk commented 9 years ago

I am aware that Jolla is working on a solution for antitheft. Possibly Prey. It is ~ a year ago I first started working on Prey for the Jolla phone. At the same time one of the Jolla engineers announced they were also working on a solution (not which) one. Since then, I have had a somewhat working implementation pushed (to openrepos.net) that another community member helpe by creating a GUI for (also published on openrepos.net). Now, Prey have moved on from the initial bash client, to this version based on nodejs. I have then crosscompiled nodejs to Jolla phone, and have (as said) this new version also partly working (can track phone location and a bare HW information). To answer your question. Jolla have their store, yes. They also support Android - somwhat limited, Android does not fully support all HW access of the device. So, while there is the Jolla store. There really are no core functionality to enable tracking of a stolen device available. At least native to the O/S (Sailfish OS, based on MER). This is why I am working on this, to create a native solution for Jolla phone (and the upcoming tablet). While I could temporarily change /etc/mer-release and fool a successfull registration of the device. This is not the way to go ;)

EDIT: added a screenshot to show it does somewhat work (at least for location)

mauricioschneider commented 9 years ago

It's great to know you're working on using Prey as a native anti-theft solution, we really appreciate it. I'll forward the request to our web panel developers and let you know as soon as the support for Mer has been added.

nieldk commented 9 years ago

Thanks. I (and I am sure many more) appreciate that.

ghost commented 9 years ago

@lemavri: We need to manage this better. There's no use in having to add each distro as they're reported.

Anything not listed should just be saved as "Linux." I can't see any problem with this approach. What do you think, @michelson?

mauricioschneider commented 9 years ago

@fanuneza I agree on a more advanced and automatic way of handling this, but I think this should be discussed in the proper repo.

michelson commented 9 years ago

Hola @fanuneza

This issue is scheduled to be fixed tomorrow, and is at the top of the queue :)

best

ghost commented 9 years ago

That's great news! Thanks, @michelson.

@lemavri: Absolutely. I just wanted @nieldk to know the status of the problem, and that's beyond Mer and Jolla :)

nieldk commented 9 years ago

Thanks all of You. This is indeed great news.

I can say one member of our community forum for Maemo and SailfishOS already had two devices stolen..... If he had ony had this solution, I believe he would have had a much better time :)

Best Regards Niel

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mauricioschneider commented 9 years ago

@nieldk, this was fixed a couple of minutes ago. Could you please verify if it's working and let us know how it goes? Thanks in advance!

nieldk commented 9 years ago

Super. I will do some testing the next days.

Thanks once more guys

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nieldk commented 9 years ago

Just wanted to let you know. First tests going well. Device registers. Service starts location working Report when missing sends: location, hw info, network info (ip and wifi)

Next steps

Packaging

Then make alerts, screenshots, camera - not necessarily in that order :)

Thanks again guys

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