What types of apps are you missing from the FOSS ecosystem?

An open-source app is missing for:

What’s this? A messager? We have lots of messagers.

ask them to open source it lol

Yes, it is used by schools.

Your reply is not polite. This thread is for stating which software is missing. It doesn’t mean, that you or anybody else has to do anything.

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What makes it special? There are Matrix, Zulip, Mattermost, Wire and many other messagers.

It’s tied into Untis a proprietary silo education platform thing, were teachers and students are prisoners and forced to use it

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And parents…

There is a web interface, but I could not check its functionality. Someone told me, that the app has the advantage that the user doesn’t have to relogin and it is reporting new messages.

An app which could sound various alarm sounds when a relevant notification is created by another app would be good. I want it to, particularly, check Smartlife/Tuya notifications.

I think Alertly was meant to do this but not been able to get it to work consistently - could be user error.

Can’t you just set per notification sound?

Thanks for the suggestion. I had tried that and not been able to get it to work but, with your confirmation it should work, tried again and got it working. So suppose no need for that app though it might still be good to get more control over exactly what happens depending on the notification.

Thanks,

I’m missing a manager for the bookmark lists. If I use different browsers, the bookmark lists should be displayed in all of them. Thanks.

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You are? We have a whole category for that | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

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Maybe it exists (an internet search seems to think that Tasker can do this but I don’t think so) already but….. I would like an app that tells me if I am on mobile data even though wifi is turned on and I should be getting internet through wifi.

A few weeks ago I used almost all my monthly data allowance in a day even though working at home as, for some reason, my wifi kept insisting that it could connect to my wifi but was not getting internet connection. Result my connection was via mobile data and slow and expensive and I did not get any notification that my wifi kept failing..

Not sure why all my home wifis would not let my phone connect. It happens quite frequently, not sure why but mostly it self resolves though sometimes I have to restart phone to get a full wifi connection again.

Hope that makes sense.

So either app, advice as to what is wrong and/or advice as to how to monitor this would be great.

Thanks,

Look in Developer options, do you have a “always connect through mobile data” (or something name like that) settings active?

already tried Data Monitor | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository ?

Can’t see an “always connect through mobile data” but do have a “mobile data always on” which is active. I would prefer to keep both wifi and mobile active as in and out of house quite a bit but just want to make sure that when a known wifi connection is available that I am told before using a mobile data. That would stop what happened when all mobile data used but should have been on wifi.

The Data Monitor app seems like a good idea and I might use but it does not seem to do what I am looking for. I rarely use that much of my mobile data allowance (unless wifi fails!) so not sure this is needed but may give it a try.

Thanks,

please don’t toggle this developer setting, it can break calls for carriers relying on VoLTE

are you using any ad/tracker blockers apps or dns?
you may be blocking the connectivity check domains

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So leave the mobile data always on as active?

I have Bitdefender app and VPN and Brave is set to block cookies and similar. Not aware of anything for DNS.
It mostly works fine but then every so often……

Apologies for the distraction caused from the current flow of conversation …

Considering the subject of the thread: What types of apps are you missing from the FOSS ecosystem?, I am definitely missing a voice-changer app, as described in the posts #4 and #6 in Voice changer app during a call.