Flatsonar

PinePal

by nico359

Companion app for PineTime watches

Dangerous permissions Verified creator GPL-3.0-or-later v0.6.0
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About

PinePal is a companion app for PineTime smartwatches running InfiniTime. Connect via Bluetooth LE to view battery, heart rate, and step count, forward notifications from your phone, and track your step history over time.

Permissions

3 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • unrestricted access to the session D-Bus (all your running apps)
    --socket=session-bus
  • talks to system service org.bluez
    --system-talk-name=org.bluez
  • talks to system service org.ofono
    --system-talk-name=org.ofono
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
    --socket=fallback-x11
  • GPU acceleration
    --device=dri
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • Bluetooth
    --allow=bluetooth
  • network
    --share=network
  • notifications
    --talk-name=org.freedesktop.Notifications
  • media player controls (MPRIS)
    --talk-name=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.*

Who publishes this

The creator demonstrably controls this app id: Flathub verification, the hosting account owns the namespace, or a well-known file on their domain.

  • the build has network access: it can download things the manifest does not list
    build-options:--share=network
  • hosted by github.com/nico359, which owns the io.github namespace of io.github.nico359.pinepal
    publisher:namespace

Maintenance

Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.

No staleness signals: recent activity, or built and reviewed by Flathub.