Native Development

[SammyBGoode]

Hello there,

There seems to be an inconsistency with the accelerometer interface.  QAcceleromer::start() is returning "true" yet a) the accelerometers do not appear to be working and b) I am getting an error notification in the console. 

Code snippet:

qDebug() << "Starting accelerometer";
bool success = _accelerometer->start();
qDebug() << "Did it work? " << success;

And here is a cut and paste from the console:

Starting accelerometer
Starting sensor "/dev/sensor/linAccel" failed: "Unknown error"
Starting sensor "/dev/sensor/linAccel" failed: "Unknown error"
Did it work?  true

In the least, shouldn't ::start() be return false?  Addiitonally, I have no idea why it is not starting.  (It has worked before, maybe with the previous cut of the sdk. ??)

Using the latest SDK on a DevAlpha.

Thanks in advance.  SbG.

[SammyBGoode]

Small update here: In the example above, I had set the mode to "USER", whereas previously I had set it to "COMBINED", the default.  I switched it back to COMBINED and the accelerometers started working again.  So this appears another glitch.  It remains however that ::start() appears to be returning an incorrect value.

I have filed an issue here with the bug tracking department (BBTEN-598).  SbG.