Qt Sensors - Sensors Showcase#
The Sensors Showcase example demonstrates sensor usage with visual examples.
Overview#
On startup, the application shows a menu with buttons for the subviews for each sensor. The sensor views instantiate the given sensor, display the sensor’s values as numbers, and also visualize them with a simple graphical representation.
Accelerometer View#
The accelerometer view shows the current device acceleration values and moves around an image with an amount that is opposite of the device acceleration giving the image an inertia effect that is proportional with the movement of the device.
Moving around the image happens in the accelerometer onReadingChanged
method.
Accelerometer { id: accelerometer active: true dataRate: 25 property real x: 0 property real y: 0 property real z: 0 onReadingChanged: { x = reading.x y = reading.y z = reading.z imageTranslation.x = -reading.x * 10 imageTranslation.y = reading.y * 10 } }
Whenever there is a new accelerometer value the image translation coordinates are updated accordingly.
Proximity View#
The proximity view shows an image that is enlarged whenever the proximity sensor of the device is covered.
Compass View#
The compass view shows a compass image that is rotated according to the Compass sensor reading value making the compass turn towards north.
Magnetometer View#
The magnetometer view displays a magnet image that is rotated around an amount that is decided by the rotation angle of the vector given by the x and y magnetometer values. This results in general in the same rotation as the compass gives, demonstrating one use case of how the magnetometer readings can be used. Since the magnetometer provides readings along all three axes, there is more freedom with how these readings can be used.
Magnetometer { id: magnetometer active: true dataRate: 25 onReadingChanged: { root.magnetometerX = reading.x root.magnetometerY = reading.y root.magnetometerZ = reading.z root.magnetRotation = ((Math.atan2(reading.x, reading.y) / Math.PI) * 180) } }
Gyroscope View#
The gyroscope view also shows an image that is rotated around three axes with an amount that is calculated from the gyroscope readings. Since the gyroscope provides relative rotational change around the three spatial axes and the time between reading updates can vary, the time of the readings are stored and the rotational change is normalized based on the time passed between reading updates.
Gyroscope { id: gyroscope active: true dataRate: 25 property variant lastTimeStamp: 0 property real x: 0 property real y: 0 property real z: 0 onReadingChanged: { x = reading.x y = reading.y z = reading.z var firstCall = false if (lastTimeStamp == 0) { firstCall = true } var timeSinceLast = reading.timestamp - lastTimeStamp lastTimeStamp = reading.timestamp //Skipping the initial time jump from 0 if (firstCall === true) return var normalizedX = reading.x * (timeSinceLast/1000000) imageXRotation.angle += normalizedX var normalizedY = reading.y * (timeSinceLast/1000000) imageYRotation.angle -= normalizedY var normalizedZ = reading.z * (timeSinceLast/1000000) imageZRotation.angle += normalizedZ } }
By pressing the reset button the image rotation is reset to 0.