N810 light meter

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Third party applications that use this sensor include [http://nitstuff.appspot.com light-meter].
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Third party applications that use this sensor include [http://nitstuff.appspot.com light-meter] and [http://norayr.arnet.am/weblog/?p=1838 photographic light meter].
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Latest revision as of 23:27, 13 February 2011

The light meter lets the software on the N810 sense ambient light levels.

[edit] Hardware

The device is a TAOS TSL2563.

[edit] Software

The kernel driver exposes the lux value in the sysfs file

cat /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/device/0-0029/lux
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Third party applications that use this sensor include light-meter and photographic light meter.