DialCentral

DialCentral (formerly called GC Dialer) is meant as an interface to Google's GoogleVoice service that integrates with your Maemo device or Linux computer.

Contents

Screenshots

Note: Be sure to set your callback number before making calls

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Note that a call was placed relatively recently since it is under the refresh time. There is nothing else during the day the history was refreshed. Several items in the previous week.

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Note that a text was sent relatively recently since it is under the refresh time. There is nothing else during the day the history was refreshed. Several items in the previous week.

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Contacts with dividers:

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Start a call or enter a text for a contact

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Texting someone from the history

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Sending a group SMS:

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Features

Basic features:

  • Dialpad for click-to-call (callback, forwarding, whatever you want to call it)
  • Sending of SMS including group SMS
  • Recent calls list
  • Voicemail/SMS viewer
  • Contact list, either from GV website or CSV

Keyboard Shortcuts

  • Ctrl+Enter - toggle between fullscreen
  • Ctrl+w, Ctrl+q - quit
  • Ctrl+l - Copy the debug log contents
  • Ctrl+i to import a CSV

CSV Support

  • Must be imported (or placed in "~/.dialcentral/contacts")
  • Displayed in the addressbook selector based on the filename
  • Supported columns with the following in their names "name", "phone", "mobile"
  • Known to work with GoogleVoice and GrandCentral exports.

Getting DialCentral

Getting DialCentral

  • Maemo 4.1: Available in extras through the Application Manager.
  • Maemo 5 or available in extras through the Application Manager.
  • Ubuntu

DialCentral has been tested on:

  • Ubuntu 10.04
  • Maemo 4.1
  • Maemo 5

Contribute

DialCentral is available under the GPL v2.1 license

Trouble Shooting and Reporting of Bugs

Are the Call/SMS buttons grayed out?

  • This means it is not logged in

Can't call

  • In the account configuration, is a callback number set?
  • Did you enter the area code?
  • Have you tried calling a good known number like one of your own (that isn't the callback)

The views show stale data?

  • Go into the menu and select "Refresh"

Information to include when reporting an issue

  • Your version of Dialcentral
  • Information from the steps you followed above
  • From what tab are you having issues (Dialpad, Recent, Messages, Account Info)?
  • Is it a US or international number?
  • (For the advanced) Could you post the contents of "~/.dialcentral/dialcentral.log"
  • (For the advanced) If its a login issue, could you run "/usr/lib/dialcentral/gv_backend.py USERNAME PASSWORD" and post the files generated along with the output
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