foner
Make and receive phone calls through a paired Bluetooth phone, from your KDE desktop
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Details
- External ID
- 1407550812
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- foner
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Oct. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 16
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.38807912545549195
- Tags
- bluetooth, dialer, hfp, kde, kirigami, linux, pipewire, plasma, qt6, telephony
- Fetched at
- Oct. 8, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 8, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
Enrichment
- Niche
- ChatGPT developer tools and extensions
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Communication
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- bluetooth call manager for kde desktop
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Building the KDE desktop UI and dialer is straightforward, but robustly managing Bluetooth HFP/HSP telephony profiles, DBus state machines, and PipeWire SCO audio routing on Linux is notoriously complex.
What it would actually take: The architecture relies on a Qt/QML frontend interfacing via DBus with BlueZ, oFono or ModemManager, and PipeWire/WirePlumber for bi-directional audio stream routing. The difficult part is reliable handling of Bluetooth Hands-Free Profile (HFP) edge cases, AT modem command negotiation, and Linux audio routing without latency or dropped audio.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 199 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #121 of 200 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 335 days after the earliest competitor.
- Fieldwatch · github · 2026-09-15 · 53 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Connect a voice agent to your phone as a Bluetooth headset with a ESP32 · hn · 2026-07-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- OpenRayneo · github · 2026-09-28 · 43 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- DiPlay · github · 2026-09-24 · 300 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Crate · hn · 2026-07-20 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- nectarlink · github · 2026-10-04 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- HearBridge-PS5 · github · 2026-10-07 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Proxmox -> Share your host's Bluetooth with a VM over the network · hn · 2026-07-25 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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