<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/30/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Richard Franks</b> <<a href="mailto:richard.franks@drdc-rddc.gc.ca" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
richard.franks@drdc-rddc.gc.ca</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 09:48 +0100, Sven Neuhaus wrote:<br>> Sean Moss-Pultz wrote:<br>> > > On 11/30/06 3:32 AM, "Robert Michel" <<a href="mailto:openmoko@robertmichel.de" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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</a>> wrote:<br>> >> >> But this light sensor could also combined with localisation, time and<br>> >> >> provile (or movement sensor)<br>> >> >> E.g. when I'm at home and the light sensor detects light at 2 o'clock
<br>> >> >> in the morning, I will still be reachable for calls from my frinds.<br>> > ><br>> > > Combined with automatically switching profiles (AGPS stuff) this is<br>> > > really an amazing idea.
<br>><br>> Agreed - fascinating possibilities! FYI, the Motorola L2 phone has a light<br>> sensor (it toggles the keypad light), so it's been done already, but - of<br>> course - the closed software on that phone doesn't fully utilize it...
<br><br>I'm assuming that acquiring/monitoring the microphone input doesn't come<br>for free.. but ambient noise level could also be used as an indicator of<br>activity - either polling for one second every minute or so, or (if the
<br>ADC can be directed to acquire at a lower data rate) a continuous sample<br>over a longer period of time -- you don't require too much resolution to<br>monitor the presence of ambient noise.<br><br>You would want to base it on an probabilistic analysis in either case,
<br>else it might pick up car headlights swinging across the window, a<br>neighbours security light being triggered by raccoons, etc.<br><br>Oh wait, that wouldn't work... if you had the phone in the bedroom it<br>would allow incoming calls if you were snoring.
<br><br>Bah.<br><br>Richard<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OpenMoko community mailing list<br><a href="mailto:community@lists.openmoko.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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http://lists.openmoko.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community</a><br></blockquote></div><br>It almost sounds like we should make a plugin framework for availability detection, with plugins for the light sensor, PIM calendar, microphone (can we set an interrupt if the ADC receives a level greater than X?) and so on and so forth as people
figure out other ways to detect it<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>--Jeff<br>What DO you call whitewater when you live in the desert?