Inhibit example

[Aleksander Morgado]

Hey Tom,

> I've got an existing application that uses AT commands to setup a
> modem then qmicli to setup the data connection. For various reasons
> I'm trying to move to use ModemManager instead. My problem is that in
> order to keep the AT commands for setup I need to stop ModemManager
> for a bit.
>
> A previous email here said you can use the inhibit function but I'm
> having trouble figuring out how to use mm_manager_inhibit_device()
> because there are too many layers in the code. For instance, it takes
> a MManager pointer that comes from mmcli_get_modem_sync() but that's
> not in mm-glib. Is there a relatively simple example that shows how to
> do an inhibit/uninhibit so we can do setup?
>

If using libmm-glib, you would roughly need:

1. Create a MMManager, e.g. with
mm_manager_new()/mm_manager_new_finish() -->
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/ModemManager/doc/latest/libmm-glib/MMManager.html#mm-manager-new
2. Call mm_manager_inhibit_device() -->
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/ModemManager/doc/latest/libmm-glib/MMManager.html#mm-manager-inhibit-device

Both calls have their sync counterparts as well, but you anyway
require a GLib main loop running.

The mm_manager_inhibit_device() call takes a modem "uid" which is
basically the string exposed in the "Device" field in mmcli -m 0. This
is usually the sysfs path of the modem, or a custom name you may have
given to it with the ID_MM_PHYSDEV_UID udev tag.

The method you're pointing out, mmcli_get_modem_sync(), is an
implementation done inside the mmcli sources to get a Modem object
from the MMManager object. mmcli is also using libmm-glib.

-- 
Aleksander