Linux accelerometer facade

[trivedigaurav]

Cleaned up version of @Davideddu's pull request: #51

[depau]

Thanks for the clean up!

[trivedigaurav]

@Davideddu Sure! Np. I am waiting for some one to review this and merge.

[depau]

I'm glad they added the new features. If I have enough time I'll work on it again and add the SMS feature on Linux through ModemManager/NetworkManager (I made some cool python/bash scripts to mess with USB modems last year, I still have to push them though :/ )
I'll also see what I can do with the picture taking thing... I'm pretty sure guvcview has a command line interface that we can easily use.

[depau]

I just need to see how both the facades work, their API and the expected behavior on the already supported platforms.

[depau]

It seems that FreeDesktop totally revolutioned ModemManager's DBus API, and I cannot understand how to port the existing scripts created by Novell for the previous API...

EDIT: @trivedigaurav actually with D-Feet and an old Nokia phone (in which I miraculously managed to insert my MicroSIM) I kind of managed to explore the new DBus interface...

I want to test it a little bit and port the old utilities to ModemManager1, then create the new Linux facade.

[depau]

Why is this not getting merged? @tito

[trivedigaurav]

@Davideddu I think I will go ahead and merge this since there seems to be no comments on this. Thanks for the reminder.

[depau]

Now Linux looks as good as OSX :D

[trivedigaurav]

That's nice! This thread also talks about your ModemManager feature. You might want to open a separate issue for that so that we don't forget about it.

[depau]

Yeah I want to work on it, but the new modem manager implementation is either not up to date or it doesn't sent texts through my old Nokia phone. I asked the CyanogenMod maintainer for my phone to enable USB modem in the kernel but he hasn't answered yet.
I'll try to see if there's a modemmanager ppa, otherwise I'll downgrade it and develop the api for the old implementation.

[depau]

Today I found this interesting code: https://github.com/willcast/hp-touchpad-ubuntu/blob/master/rotationd.c

I think I will implement it soon, as I think most of the accelerometers work this way to minimize power consumption.

[depau]

This should be re-written using the SensorProxy API:

https://developer.gnome.org/iio-sensor-proxy/stable/gdbus-net.hadess.SensorProxy.html

[KeyWeeUsr]

@depau if the current implementation returns the correct results and is only marked as deprecated (or only as old or something), feel free to add a new implementation, but leave the current one in place as a fallback or add the reasoning for using dbus, please.

I got 503 from that website. :/

Edit: From what I see this approach uses kernel's sysclass, so this is the most desired approach in my opinion since the only software problem (excluding python + our implementation) is perhaps an issue with the kernel alone + it does not depend on 3rd party stuff.