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Nura in 2026-09: FP5, ME30 Call Audio Routing

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Key points

The project's September 2026 report covers its first conference, where it announced a rebranding to Nura, and a two-day hackathon that followed. The main technical result is an initial version of call audio routing for the Fairphone 5 and Motorola Edge 30, now in Nura edge.

Call audio routing

  • Phone call audio now works out of the box in Nura edge on the Fairphone 5 and Motorola Edge 30 (merge requests !9656 and !9650).
  • Luca and Federico did the work, building on the Fairphone 5 proof-of-concept from the FOSDEM hackathon and using Val's dummystreamhack.
  • Speakerphone and microphone mute were left out on purpose because they are not yet wired up to the UI; they need UCM and UI integration later.
  • Bluetooth calls do not work yet. On Qualcomm phones, call audio is routed through the SoC and never reaches the main CPU or userspace.
  • Bluetooth calls therefore need a slimbus (digital audio) driver for the WCN3990 Bluetooth chip, and someone is working on one.

Conference and hackathon

  • Talks were live-streamed and recordings will be uploaded, with no date given because this is volunteer work.
  • The rebranding to Nura was announced at the end of the conference, and a signed tablecloth with the old branding was raffled off.
  • The two-day hackathon took place afterwards at CCCAC.
  • Besides the call audio work, attendees finished blog posts presenting the ASBL and the road to daily-drivable mainline phones.

Rebranding and help wanted

  • The rename is in progress: many user-facing places have been changed, but many others still use the old name.
  • The GitLab instance will move to the new domain in about three weeks.
  • Anyone who finds the old name in a repository, such as in docs pages, is asked to send a patch; a meta issue tracks the work.
  • Topics for the next monthly post can be suggested by commenting on issue #238.
  • Financial contributions are accepted through OpenCollective.

Coming up

  • Rob will staff a Nura table at OpenSource Conference 2026 Tokyo/Fall on Saturday 2026-10-17.

Contributors

  • The post thanks by name the roughly 60 people whose patches were merged since the previous monthly report, along with upstream projects and other helpers.

Summary by DistroNews, based on the original post.

We have a very exciting month behind us. Our very first conference happened and was a huge success thanks to the amazing people who operated the video equipment, organized the event, gave talks, helped out in other ways and attended (in person and online)! Talks were live-streamed during the event and will be uploaded (no ETA yet as this is volunteer work). At the end of the conference, we announced the rebranding to Nura and gave away the tablecloth with old branding in a raffle, signed by lots of people who attended the last day and contributed anything to Nura, Alpine and/or Linux Mobile. Afterwards we had a short two-day hackathon at CCCAC (where the photo above was taken, first #ShotOnNura) and managed among other things to finish the blog posts presenting the ASBL and road to daily-drivable mainline phones and got some work on call audio routing done. Fairphone 5 and Motorola Edge 30 Call Audio Routing Luca and Federico continued the efforts from the FOSDEM hackathon where we had a proof-of-concept for call audio routing for the FP5. They now have an initial version working out-of-the-box in Nura edge (!9656,!9650) with Val 's dummystreamhack. There is more work to do for this, Federico wrote: "Luca and I left speakerphone and microphone mute outside on purpose as they are not wired up to UI. They can be investigated and added later (UCM + UI integration), but at least we now have the basic call functionality available. As for the bluetooth phone calls, in Qualcomm phones phone call audio is routed through the SoC without ever reaching the main CPU or userspace. This means we need a slimbus (digital audio) driver for the WCN3990 bluetooth chip. You can find some info on that here. There is someone working on it."

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