librepods: init at 0.2.0-alpha

[Cameo007]

Add librepods: AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem.

https://github.com/kavishdevar/librepods

There is just one problem when running it.

qt.bluetooth.bluez: Missing CAP_NET_ADMIN permission. Cannot determine whether a found address is of random or public type.

Running librepods as root is a workaround for this but

1. I don't think you should need to run such an app as root
2. it doesn't work with pactl

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[Cameo007]

#440322

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[acid-bong]

now i'm back at my pc and can test what i'm suggesting. all these are tested locally and work on my machine™️

[acid-bong]

Just one little nitpick, and i'm done 😅

[Cameo007]

No problem, I really appreciate your patience.

There is just one thing from my side.
One one hand the program needs to be run as root for some bluetooth stuff to work but on the other hand pactl does not work as root. Also I don't think that the user should necessarily need to run this as root.

The nightly version showed some logs about CAP_NET_ADMIN being necessary here.
However enabling it on a copy of the binary (the one in ./result is read-only) with sudo setcap cap_net_admin+ep librepods does not help.

Is there a way we can set this in the package or is this something the user has to do?

[qzylinra]

You can write a nixos module to set security.wrappers

[Cameo007]

I now wrote a module and patched the autostart .desktop file because with the original path it failed to load QtQuick.Controls.
However I noticed that the path in the autostart file is not the path used when running librepods directly (which is /run/wrappers/wrappers.LUhfWBFYDz/librepods). This doesn't cause any problems beside the title bar not being fully white.

But it might be better to fix this upstream and to obtain the right path.

https://github.com/kavishdevar/librepods/blob/main/linux/autostartmanager.hpp#L58

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[fugidev]

Works well for me (with the wrapper), except for theming:

(librepods:18744): Gtk-WARNING **: 14:09:26.881: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",
Fontconfig warning: using without calling FcInit()
[...]
qt.qpa.theme.gnome: dbus reply error: [ "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied" ] "Portal operation not allowed: Unable to open /proc/18521/root"

[ZainKergaye]

Is there anything I can do to speed this up and get this merged? I would love to just try it out without messing around with a bunch of nix build files

[Cameo007]

Is there anything I can do to speed this up and get this merged? I would love to just try it out without messing around with a bunch of nix build files

If you know how to solve this problem with the autostart path. I mean it doesn't cause any severe issues but I want it to be as it is intended by it's creators.

[NetaliDev]

What is the intended use of the autostart path? It seems to work fine as it is right now.

And could you please address the requested changes to the module and the package? These requested changes are also preventing the PR from being merged.

[phanirithvij]

There is a new iced implementation kavishdevar/librepods#241, and the old qt one seems to have halted development. Quoting https://github.com/kavishdevar/librepods#linux

for the old version see the Linux README. (doesn't have many features, maintainer didn't have time to work on it)
new version in development (kavishdevar/librepods#241)

Non-blocking: I think its fine to package the current one still, but better not backport it to stable.

[Cameo007]

Thanks for the hint

[Redlonghead]

Thanks for the hint

I do have the iced version packaged in my nixos-config, I was just waiting for it to be on the main branch before finalizing it. You can totally copy from it if you package it here at some point. :)

[Cameo007]

Thanks for the hint

I do have the iced version packaged in my nixos-config, I was just waiting for it to be on the main branch before finalizing it. You can totally copy from it if you package it here at some point. :)

That’s good to know, especially for the Iced stuff.
I will definitely take a look at your config as soon as it’s released.

[doprz]

There is a new iced implementation kavishdevar/librepods#241, and the old qt one seems to have halted development. Quoting https://github.com/kavishdevar/librepods#linux

for the old version see the Linux README. (doesn't have many features, maintainer didn't have time to work on it)
new version in development (kavishdevar/librepods#241)

Non-blocking: I think its fine to package the current one still, but better not backport it to stable.

I merged a PR kavishdevar/librepods#382 that adds Nix support onto the branch that introduced the new iced-rs implementation. Feel free to take a look and see if it is of any help.