Is there a good sensor app available?
I mean such an app where you can show air pressure, air pollution, the accelerometers and so on.
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Anyone ever thought of pulling the raw data from the proximity sensor and using as a IR sensor for, say, a remote. Sticking my tv remote by the proximity sensor, I was able to use a sensor data app to tell me that the proximity sensor was reacting to the remote when I pushed volume buttons. Sound interesting to anyone?
yeah, sounds cool
Any devs think its possible to accomplish this realistically?
This is only slightly related, but I wish there was a way to use my phone to open to proximity gate to my unit complex.
Stupid $50 for key replacements.
Maybe close range phone-to-phone communication?
Yeah, trying to lookinto it now actually. Also if the proximity sensor is sending out IR and is positioned next to the camera...I imagine an ability to detect objects/"human invisible colors" in the dark may be possible... if the amount of energy to the IR/proximity sensor could be programmatically set, depending on what eventual resistor components are installed of course...
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Escaladez2 said:
Anyone ever thought of pulling the raw data from the proximity sensor and using as a IR sensor for, say, a remote. Sticking my tv remote by the proximity sensor, I was able to use a sensor data app to tell me that the proximity sensor was reacting to the remote when I pushed volume buttons. Sound interesting to anyone?
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I just now tested my remote too (a couple of years later) and yes I can clearly see the proximity sensor is reacting to presses on my remotecontrol. Limits as I can see this far:
1. The remote has to be exactly pointing towards the sensor and if more far than a decimeter away it seems to not be detected.
2. The proximity sensor in my device only returns a binary value,either it returns 0 or it returns 5, nothing in between.
I've tried several different apps that report sensor data from the Evo LTE, and almost all of the sensors show no data.
Only things like the proximity sensor, light and sound register data.
The orientation sensor and compass sensor show nothing and the accelerometer shows almost no changes as I move the phone around.
The Compass app always shows North.
And yet... Google sky maps works perfectly.
I wanted to use the orientation sensor to control some servos on an arduino project like I had been with my old Evo 4G.
Have they changed the APIs, or are they using some new chipset that (almost) all the apps don't yet understand?
Use elixir 2 to test the sensors
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pbarrett said:
I've tried several different apps that report sensor data from the Evo LTE, and almost all of the sensors show no data.
Only things like the proximity sensor, light and sound register data.
The orientation sensor and compass sensor show nothing and the accelerometer shows almost no changes as I move the phone around.
The Compass app always shows North.
And yet... Google sky maps works perfectly.
I wanted to use the orientation sensor to control some servos on an arduino project like I had been with my old Evo 4G.
Have they changed the APIs, or are they using some new chipset that (almost) all the apps don't yet understand?
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I tested my compass app and it works perfectly.
Hmm -
Compass (Catch.com) and Compass Pro are stuck on North.
Compass & Level shows North and always centered level
Smart Compass and Compass (Droidware UK) are showing the actual direction.
Labirynth light works.
Google Sky Map works.
Elixir 2 shows:
Accelerometer: seems to be working
Gravity sensor: nothing
Gyroscope: nothing
Light sensor: works
Linear acceleration sensor: nothing
Magnetic field sensor: works
Microphone: works
Orientation sensor: nothing
Proximity sensor: works
Rotation vector sensor: nothing
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Hmm -
Compass (Catch.com) and Compass Pro are stuck on North.
Compass & Level shows North and always centered level
Smart Compass and Compass (Droidware UK) are showing the actual direction.
Labirynth light works.
Google Sky Map works.
Elixir 2 shows:
Accelerometer: seems to be working
Gravity sensor: nothing
Gyroscope: nothing
Light sensor: works
Linear acceleration sensor: nothing
Magnetic field sensor: works
Microphone: works
Orientation sensor: nothing
Proximity sensor: works
Rotation vector sensor: nothing
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Using a rom of some sort? Possibly it has broken things.
Everything checks out for me in elixir. Go have sprint run their tests on your device. Sounds like yours needs replacement
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Do you think maybe sensor tests are a bit esoteric for your basic Sprint store?
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Do you think maybe sensor tests are a bit esoteric for your basic Sprint store?
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Any store with a service department has a wide assortment of tests. All they have to do is plug it in
I've been using a Watchmaker watchface that displays barometric pressure. I would rather have an altimeter display.
I know the watch itself does not have an altimeter, but isn't there a way to convert the barometer reading (from the phone weather app) to altitude and display it on the watch?
The GPS sensor should give you the altitude more precisely than a barometric pressure reading from a weather app.
moto 360 sport specifications say barometric altimeter, is it true?
Hi!
Can anyone tell me how I get the pressure sensor to get recognized? All apps I tried so far say it's not there, but apparently the compass app from the stock ROM does display the pressure data. Does anyone have the stock pressure app? I'm running AEX.
Would a different kernel help for that?
Thanks!
Molvol said:
Hi!
Can anyone tell me how I get the pressure sensor to get recognized? All apps I tried so far say it's not there, but apparently the compass app from the stock ROM does display the pressure data. Does anyone have the stock pressure app? I'm running AEX.
Would a different kernel help for that?
Thanks!
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What u mn??? Pressure app ???
Almost every cell phone has a pressure sensor, and the Redmi 5 plus apparently too. But it doesn't seem to work like in all other phones. There are many apps that can read this sensor and display it - barometer apps namely and other sensor-display apps. I haven't found one that works with my 5 plus.
I have only seen mentioned that the built in compass app does display a pressure, all apps I have tried do not display a correct value, most just say "no sensor".
Sorry
No pressure sens. in RN5. Compass works with magnetic sensor which detects magnetic field of Earth. Not atmospheric pressure. Pressure sensor is only in more expensive phones included
Hello all,
Any chance someone would be interested in helping to implement fall detection on regular wear OS watches? Something similar to those on the galaxy and apple watches. Am I missing something that should be an obvious reason this hasn't been implemented?
Thanks
I have looked into this, and there are some difficulties to it. Most algorithms for fall detection use continuous accelerometer and/or gyroscope readings. There is a significant battery hit for making these recordings continuously.
As far as I know, the only way to make this viable is to use sensor batching with wakeup accelerometer and gyroscope sensors. That way, the device will be able to sleep for a significant portion of the time and be woken up when there are new measurements. Some devices (I'm looking at you ticwatch pro 3) don't even have wakeup accelerometer or gyroscope. The only way I see to get around this is using the significant motion detector which is always a wake-up sensor. Maybe this sensor will be triggered to wakeup the device when a fall occurs and sensors can be recorded at that time.
I think this is how I would go about it, but maybe I'm missing something
Sounds like a good plan for starters... cheers
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I have looked into this, and there are some difficulties to it. Most algorithms for fall detection use continuous accelerometer and/or gyroscope readings. There is a significant battery hit for making these recordings continuously.
As far as I know, the only way to make this viable is to use sensor batching with wakeup accelerometer and gyroscope sensors. That way, the device will be able to sleep for a significant portion of the time and be woken up when there are new measurements. Some devices (I'm looking at you ticwatch pro 3) don't even have wakeup accelerometer or gyroscope. The only way I see to get around this is using the significant motion detector which is always a wake-up sensor. Maybe this sensor will be triggered to wakeup the device when a fall occurs and sensors can be recorded at that time.
I think this is how I would go about it, but maybe I'm missing something
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I don't have a great understanding of how these all integrate into the system but I would think that the same sensor, what I am assuming is an accelerometer, that is used for the wake feature could also be used for this. Like you said, using the full suite would be prohibitively expensive from an energy standpoint, but I assume that the wake accelerometer can be used to directly measure the acceleration of the wake motion and could also be used to calculate fall detection, one that measures the acceleration and not just if said motion is occurring. So, there would be no need for the rest of the sensor suite to be used after, correct? As a side note, it would be pretty cool to have the watch read vitals and such and be able to report that with the fall notification via a continuous stream of text messages on set intervals.