GENERAL
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Telepathy-Ring is a Telepathy connection manager for GSM and similar mobile
telephony.
Telepathy-Ring is named after Douglas H. Ring, one of the inventors of
cellular mobile phone system.
Currently, Telephathy-Ring implements Connection Manager and Connection
functionality, StreamedMedia channels for voice calls and Text channels for
SMS messaging.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES AND DEBUGGING
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The following environment variables are used:
- RING_PERSIST - if set, keep running even if no connection is active
- RING_REALTIME - if set, try to use realtime priority
- RING_MEMLOCK - if set, use mmlockall()
- RING_LOGFILE - redirect debugging output (stdout/stderr) to named file
- RING_DEBUG - if set, determine what kind of debugging output to print
- all - everything
- connection - connection-related
- media - call and media-related
- text - SMS-related
- MODEM_DEBUG - determine what kind of debugging output to print from modem libraries
- all - print everything
- call - print call-related messages
- sms - print sms-related messages
- sim - print sim-related messages
- dbus - print dbus-related messages
- SMS_DEBUG - determine what kind of debugging output to print from sms-glib
- all - print everything
- submit - encoding SMS-SUBMIT
- deliver - decoding SMS-DELIVER
- status-report - decoding and handling SMS-STATUS-REPORT
REQUIRED LIBRARIES
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Telepathy-Ring is based on telepathy-glib (0.11.11 or newer)
RUNNING WITH ELEVATED PRIORITY
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Telepathy-Ring can be launched with RING_REALTIME and RING_MEMLOCK
environment variables set. If they are not set, the priorities are read from
/var/lib/telepathy-ring/realtime and /var/lib/telepathy-ring/memlock
instead.