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| - | Fremantle provides an accelerometer API. Currently<ref>[https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4724 #4724] ''Lack of official documentation on how to use the accelerometer''</ref> there are two interfaces available:
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| - | # D-Bus
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| - | # sysfs
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| - | See also the [http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=288990 related thread] at talk.maemo.org.
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| - | == D-Bus ==
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| - | Thomas Thurman ([http://twitter.com/marnanel marnanel]) has put together a simple demo of an application using accelerometers using the D-Bus interface. You can find sources and .deb up at http://people.collabora.co.uk/~tthurman/sandcastle/
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| - | == sysfs ==
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| - | Another way is to use the sysfs file information:
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| - | /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-3/3-001d/coord
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| - | When reading that file you get 3 values X, Y and Z (provided on one line, separated by white space). Values are in mG (milli G). 1000 = 1 G
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| - | {| class="wikitable"
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| - | ! Position
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| - | ! X
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| - | ! Y
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| - | ! Z
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| - | | Lying on table (back down)
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| - | | 0
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| - | | 0
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| - | | -1000
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| - | | Lying on table (face down)
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| - | | 0
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| - | | 0
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| - | | 1000
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| - | | Sitting on table (bottom edge down)
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| - | | 0
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| - | | -1000
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| - | | 0
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| - | | Sitting on table (right edge down)
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| - | | -1000
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| - | | 0
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| - | | 0
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| - | | Sitting on table (left edge down)
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| - | | 1000
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| - | | 0
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| - | | 0
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| - | | Bottom right corner down (approx.)
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| - | | -500
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| - | | -500
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| - | | 0
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| - | These are theoretical values. In real life your mileage will vary.
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| - | == Using the data ==
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| - | The ''X'' and ''Y'' values can be used to calculate<ref>Tom Pycke, ''[http://tom.pycke.be/mav/69/accelerometer-to-attitude Accelerometer to pitch and roll]''</ref> the roll (that is, clockwise rotation) using the ''atan2'' function (note the inverted sign of ''y''):
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| - | angle_in_radians = '''atan2'''(''x'', -''y'')
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| - | Similar, ''Y'' and ''Z'' can be used to calculate the pitch.
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| - | == Python ==
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| - | Using the sysfs interface:
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| - | <pre>
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| - | def get_rotation():
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| - | f = open("/sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-3/3-001d/coord", 'r' )
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| - | coords = [int(w) for w in f.readline().split()]
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| - | f.close()
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| - | return coords
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| - | </pre>
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| - | == References ==
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| - | [[Category:Development]][[Category:Fremantle]]
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