[maemo-developers] n810: Light Sensor (?)

[From: Igor Stoppa]

On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 20:05 +0000, ext Neil MacLeod wrote:
> Igor Stoppa wrote:
> > 
> > iirc this was taken from some phone product, to save time (yes, that's
> > arguable but it's not the point here) and therefore it's considered not
> > viable for opening.
> > 
> > I strongly suspect that if you just check the website of some
> > manufacturer of ALS devices, you'll probably get some demo algorythm to
> > do the filtering, likely similar to the one we are using.
> > 
> 
> If Nokia open sourced the code taken from the phone I'm sure we could fix it for you![1]

heh, if it was for me i couldn't ask for more :)

> As it stands, the light sensor is more irritating than it is useful, as it constantly alters the backlight brightness between bright and dim even when the room lighting level is consistently bright.

yup, i noticed that too, it would be nice (even for the average user) if
there were more UI options to tweak the behaviour, up to disable it.

Of course, i agree that open is better. Hopefully we can do better in
the future.

-- 
Cheers, Igor

Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa at nokia.com>
(Nokia Multimedia - CP - OSSO / Helsinki, Finland)