1) could it be made less sensitive - I need to put my hand pretty close to the phone (almost touching) for a considerable time in order to activate the clock. I'd prefer it to trigger when it detects something further from the sensor (eg my hand waving quickly past, 5cm or so).
2) agree that a config for timeout of the clock would be good. Allowing colour choice would be a nice touch too :-)
3) could the widget be made smaller - I don't need any text description, just the green/amber icon (similar to how recaller works) would be sufficient as, if you use it at all you re likely to use it before going to bed every night, and so will quickly get familiar with it?
4) would it be possible to enable/disable via command line rather than by interaction with widget? I'd like to be able to use alarmed to have this enabled at 1am and disabled at 7am to avoid having to remember to do it manually each night
regardless, another very useful addon, great stuff :-)
1) could it be made less sensitive - I need to put my hand pretty close to the phone (almost touching) for a considerable time in order to activate the clock. I'd prefer it to trigger when it detects something further from the sensor (eg my hand waving quickly past, 5cm or so).
I think you might mean MORE sensitive. less means you will probably have to whack it with a stick before it responds
1) could it be made less sensitive - I need to put my hand pretty close to the phone (almost touching) for a considerable time in order to activate the clock. I'd prefer it to trigger when it detects something further from the sensor (eg my hand waving quickly past, 5cm or so).
This is quite impossible, since the proximity sensor has only two state, and there is no way to say if something is 5cm near etc etc
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2) agree that a config for timeout of the clock would be good. Allowing colour choice would be a nice touch too :-)
Definitely, I only need to understand the best place where to add this cumstomizable settings...I would avoid making a control panel applet or something similar...
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3) could the widget be made smaller - I don't need any text description, just the green/amber icon (similar to how recaller works) would be sufficient as, if you use it at all you re likely to use it before going to bed every night, and so will quickly get familiar with it?
Sounds good.
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4) would it be possible to enable/disable via command line rather than by interaction with widget? I'd like to be able to use alarmed to have this enabled at 1am and disabled at 7am to avoid having to remember to do it manually each night
I'm not sure but you can use the clock binary (/usr/bin/proximityclock-clock) to start the fullscreen clock. To close it you need to simply kill it (maybe you have to do a simple shell script)
the idea of running as a scheduled app would be to have proximity detection active during set hours so that the clock would show if proximity was triggered - but outwith those hours it would be disabled. just running the clock binary as a timed job wouldn't - I don't think? - activate proximity detection. I did try running the binary from xterm before posting, but it didn't seem to respond to prox sensor. No problem, manual it is!
Does this only detect your hand? or would it be triggered when i'm walking and it's in my pocket with a packet of gum or something, would the gum set it off and waste my battery? i know it wouldn't waste much but the amount i use my n900 i need all the battery i can get!
@xrobby: you presumably wouldn't activate the widget when the phone is going to be in your pocket (because it WOULD trigger on your gum, or just the inside of your pocket). it's really just meant for use when the phone is located on a table or bedside cabinet etc.
