Hi everyone,

as some will already know i am learning to code with python and Qt. I have to admit it has been a bit of hard work over the last few days, but today i seem to have mini break throughs

My idea may have already been used, but please bear-in mind that i am learning and each of these little things i am finding useful

My idea is/was a healthcheck app for the N900.
Ignoring the random bits in screenshots that make no sense, i hope you can see what i am aiming to do.

The first screenshot shows:

• The accelerometer read out (Does it work?)
• A static image taken from the front camera (Again, even though bad quality, does it work?)

The second image shows the readout from the terminal command dpkg -l.
I'm still to do an awful lot of work - and i know the layout is painful (But very finger friendly - ), the positioning was done by hand today on the n900 - so just guessed at the positioning numbers

Anyway - will use this thread to update people as i go. Havn't done a usual announce thread directly - as well, i'm not sure it will be of use to anyone?

Further pages will hopefully show -

• Lists of applications installed (Maybe ability to uninstall, not sure yet!)
• List of repos enabled/disabled
• System info, such as maemo version and rootfs space free
• Possibly the ability to run commands such as apt-get clean etc.

Any comments and help would be very much appreciated - will post the code once i have tidied it up. (I have no previous proper knowledge of any of this stuff, just a bit of vb/asp/ada and sql knowledge! - so the coding is awful at the moment, and i havn't labeled things correctly! will do when i get time and near my pc!)


The code depends on having gstreamer installed (And i've read that the x-term code i used probably wasn't right, but works, so will leave it for now.). Happy to post the .py file if anyone fancies venturing into the unknown with me

On a final note, coding on the n900 may not be the easiest thing in the world, but wow it works well!!!

a nice start indeed !
just a suggestion :
tabs are generally not very finger friendly IMHO, you could later perhaps with other enhancements release something with a button approach or multiple sub-window approach.

And this should be in the applications forum

Doh - good point on the apps forum - sorry could a mod please move it?

ooo - i did think that, but buttons / sub windows i havn't figured out yet - will try that after i figure out the parsing etc... - thanks for the info!

Have to admit, as i have made the text so big, they are very finger friendly for me, even with my fat thumbs!

so no expert tips on parseing? hehehe

Love this idea!! I'm still waiting on an awesome sms counter :$

i think someone else is doing this, so i won't tread on their toes! might add it on to here as a test though

thank you very much for the nice comment though!
any other additional ideas?

nice ... you could really develop it into a great diagnostic app ..
i hear praises from all the n00bs .. including me

best of luck with it ..

It would be really nice if you could comment (not much stuff, just the basics) and releash the code

Nice work, I'm also playing with Python (and GTK though) these days

will definitley do that. gonna work towards doing a ver 1 this weekend
documenting my steps as i go

ok.... latest update!

removed keyboard bit, havnt figured that out yet!
added battery status. might put a loading percentage bar in there!

accellerometer readout works fine.
enlarged front cam preview area. not had the latest update yet, so quality is still poor.

added a button to update the page, but can't figure out how to get a button to run a function!!

screenshot attached!