Re: Dbus api for gta2 accelerometers

2009-09-16 Thread Ed Kapitein
Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote: On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 07:50:26PM +0200, Ivo van den Maagdenberg wrote: The use case is as follows: take the openmoko and make it a cycleway shock measuring platform, utilizing the accelerometers. So, direct reads from the are going to be needed. The gps

Re: Dbus api for gta2 accelerometers

2009-09-16 Thread RANJAN
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Ed Kapitein e...@kapitein.org wrote: Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote: On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 07:50:26PM +0200, Ivo van den Maagdenberg wrote: The use case is as follows: take the openmoko and make it a cycleway shock measuring platform, utilizing the

Re: Dbus api for gta2 accelerometers

2009-09-16 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 16 September 2009, Ed Kapitein wrote: Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote: On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 07:50:26PM +0200, Ivo van den Maagdenberg wrote: The use case is as follows: take the openmoko and make it a cycleway shock measuring platform, utilizing the accelerometers. So, direct

Re: Dbus api for gta2 accelerometers

2009-09-15 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 15 September 2009, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 01:36:35PM +0100, Al Johnson wrote: Out of interest why you want to know the position of the points, For simulation purposes. Aerial photographs can be used too, of course, but it is quite time consuming

Re: Dbus api for gta2 accelerometers

2009-09-15 Thread rhn
Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote: On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 07:50:26PM +0200, Ivo van den Maagdenberg wrote: The use case is as follows: take the openmoko and make it a cycleway shock measuring platform, utilizing the accelerometers. So, direct reads from the are going to be needed. The gps unit

Re: Dbus api for gta2 accelerometers

2009-09-14 Thread Al Johnson
On Sunday 13 September 2009, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote: On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 07:50:26PM +0200, Ivo van den Maagdenberg wrote: The use case is as follows: take the openmoko and make it a cycleway shock measuring platform, utilizing the accelerometers. So, direct reads from the are

Re: Dbus api for gta2 accelerometers

2009-09-14 Thread Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 01:36:35PM +0100, Al Johnson wrote: Out of interest why you want to know the position of the points, For simulation purposes. Aerial photographs can be used too, of course, but it is quite time consuming to measure the distances that way. Curves are also an issue that

Re: Dbus api for gta2 accelerometers

2009-09-14 Thread RANJAN
The use case is as follows: take the openmoko and make it a cycleway shock measuring platform, utilizing the accelerometers. So, direct reads from the are going to be needed. The gps unit is of course of interest to make the measurements location-based. Looks like an interesting idea to

Re: Dbus api for gta2 accelerometers

2009-09-13 Thread Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 07:50:26PM +0200, Ivo van den Maagdenberg wrote: The use case is as follows: take the openmoko and make it a cycleway shock measuring platform, utilizing the accelerometers. So, direct reads from the are going to be needed. The gps unit is of course of interest to make

Dbus api for gta2 accelerometers

2009-09-12 Thread Ivo van den Maagdenberg
Anyone able to show how to read out the accelerometers through d-bus? I tried looking it up on http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Dbus_device_API but did not find references to the accelerometers. http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Accelerometer_data_retrieval is of course valuable, but I'd like to learn

Re: Dbus api for gta2 accelerometers

2009-09-12 Thread Frederik Sdun
* Ivo van den Maagdenberg ivo.vdmaagdenb...@gmail.com [12.09.2009 09:57]: Anyone able to show how to read out the accelerometers through d-bus? I tried looking it up on http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Dbus_device_API but did not find references to the accelerometers.

Re: Dbus api for gta2 accelerometers

2009-09-12 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
On Saturday 12 September 2009 09:56:08 Ivo van den Maagdenberg wrote: Anyone able to show how to read out the accelerometers through d-bus? I tried looking it up on http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Dbus_device_API but did not find references to the accelerometers. What's your usecase? Since very

Re: Dbus api for gta2 accelerometers

2009-09-12 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/9/12 Frederik Sdun frederik.s...@googlemail.com: There is no DBus API for the accelerometers, because it throws up to 100 signals a second. That's too much for poor little Freerunner and it was removed at what point could the api handle the data? iirc, the data rate can be set, so i'm

Re: Dbus api for gta2 accelerometers

2009-09-12 Thread Frederik Sdun
* Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.com [12.09.2009 13:31]: 2009/9/12 Frederik Sdun frederik.s...@googlemail.com: There is no DBus API for the accelerometers, because it throws up to 100 signals a second. That's too much for poor little Freerunner and it was removed at what point could

Re: Dbus api for gta2 accelerometers

2009-09-12 Thread Ivo van den Maagdenberg
2009/9/12 Michael 'Mickey' Lauer mic...@vanille-media.de On Saturday 12 September 2009 09:56:08 Ivo van den Maagdenberg wrote: Anyone able to show how to read out the accelerometers through d-bus? I tried looking it up on http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Dbus_device_API but did not find

Re: Dbus api for gta2 accelerometers

2009-09-12 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
On Saturday 12 September 2009 19:50:26 Ivo van den Maagdenberg wrote: 2009/9/12 Michael 'Mickey' Lauer mic...@vanille-media.de On Saturday 12 September 2009 09:56:08 Ivo van den Maagdenberg wrote: Anyone able to show how to read out the accelerometers through d-bus? I tried looking it up