Mastodawn

Ever wanted to use your phone's NFC reader on Linux? Now you can — right from GNOME! I built a minimal NFC app using neard and D-Bus — no hacks, no proprietary drivers. Just run the daemon, tap a tag, and it works. 👉 https://gitlab.gnome.org/dh/gnfc/ 1/2 #nfc #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux #Mobian #NixOS #postmarketOS

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David Heidelberg 4d ago

What works today: read & import vCards from NFC tags, and detect any tag read — great for verifying your hardware is actually enabled. It's early but real. Contributions and feedback very welcome — let's make Linux NFC happen! 🏷️ 2/2

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PocketVJ aka magdesign 4d ago

@okias
do we need yo install sdm845-next kernel for this to work?

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David Heidelberg 4d ago

@pocketvj Oneplus 6/6T should work with older kernels, some devices still doesn't have NFC enabled, but some (such as Shift 6MQ) will work only with sdm845-next.

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darkdragon 33m ago

@okias @pocketvj so the wiki page https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/OnePlus_6_(oneplus-enchilada)#NFC is outdated and it should be changed to just "works" also in the overview table?

OnePlus 6 (oneplus-enchilada) - postmarketOS Wiki

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David Heidelberg 26m ago

@darkdragon @pocketvj yes, many pmOS devices wiki pages are outdated.

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darkdragon 38m ago

@okias @z3ntu does this work with postmarketOS on Fairphone?

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David Heidelberg 28m ago

@darkdragon @z3ntu should work (depend on FP model, if nfc is implemented in-kernel) on any distribution.

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achill 4d ago

@okias it doesn't build btw. the wrong filename was referenced here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/dh/gnfc/-/blob/main/data/meson.build#L15

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David Heidelberg 4d ago

@fossdd [update] Fixed.

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Zeeshan Ali Khan

🇺🇦4d ago

@okias super cool. I'll try this soon.

Btw, you can (and IMHO should) use zbus_names through zbus::names re-export. 😊

@okias that's cool!

@okias Thanks for this! Will make a good amount of use of this.

Wish we had a good FOSS solution for mobile payments. Would love to implement an app to enable this on mobile Linux, but sadly any real implementation seems to depend on a lot of proprietary infrastructure.