platform-api

platform-api needs a non-NULL Desktop sensor implementation

Bug #1261935 reported by Stephen M. Webb on 2013-12-17

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	platform-api	Expired	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

platform-api needs a non-NULL Desktop implementation for the following sensors.

* Accelerometer
* Proximity
* Ambient Light

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2014-01-07:

https://code.launchpad.net/~pitti/platform-api/test-backend/+merge/198098 adds a backend for simulated sensors, mostly for testing.

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote on 2014-01-07:

Stephen: does https://code.launchpad.net/~pitti/platform-api/test-backend/+merge/198098 help in this regard?

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Stephen M. Webb (bregma) wrote on 2014-01-07:

Well, the proposed change allows not Android to be selected at runtime on platforms where Android does not exist, but unless we plan to ship test fakes on production releases in Ubuntu 14.10 it does not address the need to provide a Desktop implementation of sensor support in the platform-api project.

In short, it does not address this bug.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2014-01-08:

OK, unlinking again. Then I don't understand this, on desktops (i. e. PCs and laptops) you don't usually have sensors, so there's nothing to take that data from. What are you asking for precisely?