Nocera: iio-sensor-proxy 1.0 is out!

At his blog, Bastien Nocera announces the 1.0 release of iio-sensor-proxy, a framework for accessing the various environmental sensors (e.g., accelerometer, magnetometer, proximity, or ambient-light sensors) built in to recent laptops. The proxy is a daemon that listens to the Industrial I/O (IIO) subsystem and provides access to the sensor readings over D-Bus. As of right now, support for ambient-light sensors and accelerometers is working; other sensor types are in development. The current API is based on those used by Android and iOS, but may be expanded in the future. "For future versions, we'll want to export the raw accelerometer readings, so that applications, including games, can make use of them, which might bring up security issues. SDL, Firefox, WebKit could all do with being adapted, in the near future."

