Nocera: iio-sensor-proxy 1.0 is out!

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