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IIO accelerometer sensor to input device proxy
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[Feature] Support extra sensors #221

Closed depau closed 6 years ago

depau commented 6 years ago

I just noticed that my computer (Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga 1st) has also a rotation and magnetic field sensor:

$ cat /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:*/name
gyro_3d
magn_3d
gyro_3d
accel_3d
als

It would be nice if IIO sensor proxy supported them too, so that new apps can be developed on top of it (I would easily make a compass app just for fun).

hadess commented 6 years ago

Compasses are already supported through Geoclue. There's no direct access to the compass.

For what it's worth:

gyro_3d

A gyro which we don't need (or would use in combination with the accelerometer)

magn_3d

Already used by Geoclue

gyro_3d

Another gyro.

accel_3d

The accelerometer.

als

Light sensors, which are also already supported.

depau commented 6 years ago

Thank you. May I ask why you're not going to support gyro? I like the current dbus API for the other sensors. Is this project strictly aiming at what may be useful for a desktop environment?

hadess commented 6 years ago

May I ask why you're not going to support gyro?

Why do you want to use it? If it's something we're interested in, we'll probably accept patches for it.

I like the current dbus API for the other sensors. Is this project strictly aiming at what may be useful for a desktop environment?

Depends on what you want to use it for.