Wader overview

Introduction

Open Mobile Connect is a 3G device manager daemon written in Python for the Linux OS1. Some of its features are:

• Service activable through DBus
• Pluggable architecture that can be extended by plugins
• Make mobile data connections over the network
• Manage your SIM contacts and SMS
• Operator-agnostic

History

Warp Networks developed Vodafone Mobile Connect Card driver for Linux for Vodafone Spain R&D between 2006 and 2008.

When the project ended, we realized that there were some parts of the application, like the core, that were pretty good and potentially useful for other applications of the Linux desktop ecosystem that wanted to interact with 3G devices.

So Warp decided to fork it, rewrite some dodgy spots and export all its juicy bits over DBus, which was the missing piece in order to be able to talk with other applications of the Linux desktop. We have not decided a name for the daemon yet, so for now we are stuck with Wader, but we will probably change to OMC (Open Mobile Connect) in the near future.

Footnotes

1. although there are some secret plans to port it to other OSes such as *BSD, Windows, OS X, etc. Being Python multiplatform, you are only really constrained by Twisted's support of your chosen GUI toolkit.