[Telepathy] Received SMSs not announced in Empathy UI?

[Neil Jerram]

Will Thompson <will.thompson at collabora.co.uk> writes:

> When I tested this stuff out, I mostly used the GSM card in my
> laptop. Sending messages from Empathy to my personal phone worked
> fine; and sending messages from my phone to my laptop's number caused
> channels to pop up and show up in Empathy.
>
> If you're sending messages behind Empathy's back, I could well believe
> that this wouldn't work. For instance, if you're driving an N900 over
> USB and send a message in the N900 UI, it doesn't show up as sent for
> telepathy-ring on your laptop.

I don't believe I'm doing that (i.e. something behind Empathy's back).
I just have ofono + telepathy-ring + empathy installed on my Freerunner
phone.  Then I send an SMS from my Skype account (running on a different
computer) to the Freerunner's phone number, and see what happens.  Does
that sound OK?

> That's more surprising. When I tested this, I got notification for
> incoming calls. They didn't work fully (they got stuck on Connecting…)
> but they definitely showed up.

As I mentioned, I'm definitely seeing something in the debug log for
incoming calls, so they're definitely getting part of the way up the
stack.

In any case, voice calls are going to be way more complicated to get
working fully, because of integrating with the Freerunner's audio
system, and I guess it wouldn't be at all surprising if something to do
with the media handling was causing the lack of UI notification.  So I
guess it makes sense to focus on the easier SMS case first.

Many thanks for your input,

      Neil