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Hey,

Something of a linux/maemo newbie - would appreciate a steer! Have been trying to get mbarcode to work for a bit with no success. Have tried uninstalling and reinstalling to no effect.

Mbarcode loads fine, but crashes as soon as the camera is opened. From console I get the following error:

VideoWidget::start(): Called with startEvenIfNotYetStarted = false and lensCoverOpen = true
VideoWidget::start(): Setting pipeline state
GST error: v4l2camsrc_calls.c(672): gst_v4l2camsrc_open (): /GstPipeline:test-camera/GstV4l2CamSrc:camera_src:
system error: No such file or directory

Any suggestions would be much appreciate - I think this could be a fantastically useful app!

@prentiz: That sounds like an odd error. I'm really not sure what might cause it.

A few things might rule out some possible causes, though:
- first and most importantly: are you using mbarcode from extras-devel or extras? The one in extras is fairly outdated and I have no idea if it works at all.
- is the included camera app working?
- do you have FCamera or BlessN900 installed?
- are you using N900 or an older device?
- have you updated all packages to the newest version using the package manager?

Thanks for reporting your error! I hope we can figure out what's wrong

Hey Dragly,

Is my face red! Hadn't checked the main camera app was still working, which it wasn't. Further googling on that front revealed a problem with drivers and the power kernel, solved by some apt-get update and upgrade action. Cheers!

Hi,

I've had a problem for some time and strangely nobody reported this, so I'm starting to think that I'm the only one facing it.

My problem is simple. If I rotate the N900 to use it in vertical mode, the user interface correctly rotates 90 degrees, but the image obtained from the camera is rotated 180 degrees (90 degrees in excess).

Does anyone have the same problem? Any idea about what could be causing this?

Thanks.

could this be used with the new tesco api?
https://www.techfortesco.com/tescoapiweb/
http://www.techfortesco.com/forum/in...sto5&board=1.0
http://techfortesco.blogspot.com/

I have looked into it, but seems way over my head.

@prentiz: I actually had the same issue a while back with a similar fix

@systemcrash: Uhm, yeah. I guess nobody has reported that since many Maemo users end up using landscape mode when portrait mode doesn't work. A fix would be to tilt your head 90 deg.

Just kidding The issue has just persisted since I've forgotten to disable portrait mode on the main screen. The main screen shouldn't have portrait mode enabled at all, but it was an easy way to enable it in all the other menus. I'll see if I can enable it only for the other menus instead. Thanks for noting it - I had almost forgotten about the issue altogether.

@Tiboric: After a quick look, it seems like it could be of interest both to search for products and for those who want to buy from Tesco. I suspect this would be great to implement in a new plugin, if there are any willing plugin developers out there. We'll very soon have the Python framework for plugins up and running again, making it quite quick and easy to create new plugins.

For any interested developers, the framework is documented here:
http://www.techfortesco.com/forum/index.php?topic=265.0

Thats just the answer I was looking for. lol
hope someone picks this up as a project.
The guys running the api project seem really freindly and are very helpful to questions about it.

I should soon have a fixed N900 coming back to me, so I'll fix the python plugin then and also look at adding in the iCal functionality using QT mobility 1.1

Just installed mbarcode and it works brilliantly! Thanks so much for this quality app!

// Please forgive me for not digging through 70+ pages :/

Since we already got the 'view text'-plugin, I'd like to know, how much work it would be to create a 'run in shell'-plugin from that?

My reason for this is, that I'd like to encrypt my files on the device, but entering a secure password without it echoing back is hard - and clumsy because of the limited keyboard - and storing it in a file on the internal/mmc memory isn't secure at all(ok, steganography tools could help).

So, I'd like to create a code containing a key, print it out and put it in my wallet. Also far from being 100% secure, I know, but a little better.

So, if possible and/or someone is willing, I'd just need something which passes on the deciphered text to a script, as ie in Thanks for consideration