N900 light meter

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The light meter lets the software on the n900 sense ambient light levels.
The light meter lets the software on the n900 sense ambient light levels.
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The device is a TAOS [http://www.taosinc.com/downloaddetail.aspx?did=141 TSL2562].
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The device is a TAOS [http://www.taosinc.com/downloaddetail.aspx?did=141 TSL2563].
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It is handled by the kernel module tsl2563.
It is handled by the kernel module tsl2563.

Revision as of 23:33, 7 June 2010

The light meter lets the software on the n900 sense ambient light levels.

Hardware

The device is a TAOS TSL2563.

Software

It is handled by the kernel module tsl2563.

The kernel driver exposes the lux value in the sysfs file

cat /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-2/2-0029/lux
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