kdeconnect plasmoid doesn't show notifications anymore

[Sinan H]

Hey folks,

Somehow my kdeconnect plasmoid doesn't show notifications from my phone anymore. They
are (calls/sms only) shown with regular notifications, but nothing on the plasmoid. 
It works under gnome/gsconnect as expected and everything else is OK so this isn't a
connection, nor phone-side config issue. I've tried to fiddle with all options, even
nuked .config/kdeconnect to no avail.

Is it my setup or something has changed somewhere ? Any thoughts ?

Best, 
S

[Ed Greshko]

On 6/19/19 5:26 PM, Sinan H wrote:
>  Somehow my kdeconnect plasmoid doesn't show notifications from my
> phone anymore. They are (calls/sms only) shown with regular notifications, but nothing on
> the plasmoid. 
>  It works under gnome/gsconnect as expected and everything else is OK so this isn't a
> connection, nor phone-side config issue. I've tried to fiddle with all options, even
> nuked .config/kdeconnect to no avail.
>
>  Is it my setup or something has changed somewhere ? Any thoughts ? 
kdeconnect may have been recently updated on you phone.

If so, you may have to go into the settings on your phone and give permissions for
kdeconnect to do various things.  I had to do that recently.

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[Sinan H]

yep, tried that, but everything is flipped on. Unless there is something odd with my
version of of android (LG G6, Android 8.0.0 factory)
But anyway, notification of all apps are shown under gnome, so they are send out from
Phone.  Is there a debug / logging feature in kdeconnect ?

[Sinan H]

Oh, Ive found something in journalctl :)

plasmashell[3223]: kdeconnect.interfaces: dbus interface not valid
QDBusError("org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownInterface", "No such
interface 'org.kde.kdeconnect.device.notifications' at object path
'/modules/kdeconnect/devices/a3ca5b1>

It doesn't make it clearer for me though. If nobody else sees this I'm headed for
bugzilla.

[Ed Greshko]

On 6/19/19 5:57 PM, Sinan H wrote:
>  yep, tried that, but everything is flipped on. Unless there is
> something odd with my version of of android (LG G6, Android 8.0.0 factory) 
I just installed the lasted KDE Connect on my Samsung S7 which is running Android 8.0.0
as
well.

Sent an SMS to the phone and the notice appeared on my desktop and I was able to reply
from the desktop.  So, no issues.

>  But anyway, notification of all apps are shown under gnome, so they
> are send out from Phone.  Is there a debug / logging feature in kdeconnect ?  
Not that I'm aware of....

But you can try using the kdeconnect-cli on the desktop to send an SMS and see if you get
an error message which makes sense.

You may also wish to unpair and pair the device again just for "fun"

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[Sinan H]

>  Sent an SMS to the phone and the notice appeared on my desktop and I
> was able to reply
>  from the desktop.  So, no issues.
>   
Do you get notifications other than calls/sms ? Does the sms notification appeared on the
kdeconnect plasmoid, or only on generic notification applet ?
Thx for your input !
S

[Ed Greshko]

On 6/19/19 9:33 PM, Sinan H wrote:
>   
> > Sent an SMS to the phone and the notice appeared on my desktop and I was able to
> reply
> > from the desktop.  So, no issues.
> >
>  Do you get notifications other than calls/sms ? Does the sms notification appeared on the
> kdeconnect plasmoid, or only on generic notification applet ?
>  Thx for your input ! 
In both.

And when an SMS arrives the plasmoid has an envelop icon with the message.  Clicking on
that brings up the dialog to send a reply via the connected phone.


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