My Mobile Phone's Senses

I’ve been experimenting with Termux on my Moto G7 Play. While my route in was looking for a terminal emulator for the phone, I’ve since discovered that Termux us much, much more than that.

For example, I can run Node-RED on my phone via Termux, which gives me a rich visual programming tool for wiring up inputs to outputs.

What kinds of inputs, you ask?

Well, via Termux: API, I gain access to all of the sensors on my phone. And it turns out there are a lot of them:

# termux-sensor -l
{
  "sensors": [
    "LSM6DSM Accelerometer",
    "MMC5603NJ Magnetometer",
    "MMC5603NJ Magnetometer Uncalibrated",
    "LSM6DSM Gyroscope",
    "LSM6DSM Gyroscope Uncalibrated",
    "EPL259x ALS\/PS PROX",
    "EPL259x ALS\/PS ALS",
    "LSM6DSM Accelerometer -Wakeup Secondary",
    "MMC5603NJ Magnetometer -Wakeup Secondary",
    "MMC5603NJ Magnetometer Uncalibrated -Wakeup Secondary",
    "LSM6DSM Gyroscope -Wakeup Secondary",
    "LSM6DSM Gyroscope Uncalibrated -Wakeup Secondary",
    "EPL259x ALS\/PS PROX -Non Wakeup Secondary",
    "EPL259x ALS\/PS ALS -Wakeup Secondary",
    "Gravity",
    "Linear Acceleration",
    "Rotation Vector",
    "Step Detector",
    "Step Counter",
    "Significant Motion Detector",
    "Game Rotation Vector",
    "GeoMagnetic Rotation Vector",
    "Tilt Detector",
    "Android Stationary Detector",
    "Android Motion Detector",
    "Gravity -Wakeup Secondary",
    "Linear Acceleration -Wakeup Secondary",
    "Rotation Vector -Wakeup Secondary",
    "Step Detector -Wakeup Secondary",
    "Step Counter -Wakeup Secondary",
    "Game Rotation Vector -Wakeup Secondary",
    "GeoMagnetic Rotation Vector -Wakeup Secondary",
    "Chop Chop Gesture",
    "Moto Glance Gesture",
    "Camera Gesture",
    "Stowed",
    "Display Rotate",
    "Flatup",
    "Flatdown",
    "LTS Gesture",
    "FTM Gesture",
    "LTV Gesture",
    "Off Body",
    "capsense_top",
    "capsense_bottom"
  ]
}

Lots more experimenting to do now!