Compass

Compass

by Emanuele Sorce

App

simple compass app

About Compass

A simple compass app that reads data from the sensors.

"No compass backend found" error means your device has no compass support. Contact the porter of your device!

It uses Qt standard interface which most newer devices support.

On old bq devices, an old hacky interface is still used. This requires unconfinement to access a specific file.

Recent Changes

1.0.1
- Fixed #4 - All Azimuth values are negative
- Fixed #3

1.0.0
- Now working on all newer devices with working compass!
- New logo, smaller improvements
- amd64 arch added

0.4.0
- Multiarch support
- Updated build system
- Dutch translation (thanks Heimen Stoffels!)

0.3.0
Fork, Xenial

Permissions

  • Networking
  • Webview
  • Sensors
  • Unrestricted read access to: /sys/bus/platform/drivers/msensor/sensordata

Community Built

This app has been released under the GNU GPL v3 license.It is developed in the open and you can review the source code.

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Info

  • Published Date

    Aug 19, 2018

  • Updated Date

    Jan 10, 2022

  • Current Version

    1.0.1

  • Total Downloads

    4,513

  • Latest Version Downloads

    0

  • Supported Architectures

    armhf, arm64, amd64

  • Translation Languages

    fr, nl, sl

Links

Reviews

13lenar

Reviewed Feb 23, 2023 for version 1.0.1

Its work

Cikitta Tjok

Reviewed Jun 26, 2022 for version 1.0.1

Works fine

Angonikro

Reviewed Apr 18, 2022 for version 1.0.1

zeigt nicht die ricjtige Richtung an, auch nicht wenn der kompass zu 100% kalibriere ist. redmi note 9 pro aber trotzdem danke .

1978Enrico

Reviewed Mar 11, 2022 for version 1.0.1

Ein ziemlich nervöser Zeiger.

43037384

Reviewed Feb 23, 2022 for version 1.0.1

指南针不错

Karlheinz S.

Reviewed Jan 11, 2022 for version 1.0.1

Works on Vollaphone with OTA 20

Jefriiyer

Reviewed Jan 10, 2022 for version 1.0.1

Works well on MI A2

juanjo

Reviewed Jan 5, 2022 for version 1.0.0(older version)

no funciona en BQ M10 FHD

Rüdiger Kupper

Reviewed Jan 4, 2022 for version 1.0.0(older version)

Cannot calibrate on Xperia X. Calibration level stays at 0% no matter what I do.

michael-g-murphy

Reviewed Jan 2, 2022 for version 1.0.0(older version)

Great little tool! Thanks Emanuele! One tweak to recommend: when compass is at Azimuth 0 this triggers an error message ('no backend') but this is not an error, just a reading of Azimuth 0 ! thank you!