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termux-sensor: no sensors found

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
android, shell

Research direction

Reproduce the reported termux-sensor -a and termux-sensor -l behavior on the Android media player described in the issue. Read the linked termux-packages issue 1309 and investigate whether the missing sensors are a Termux:API problem or a platform limitation. Done means documenting the cause and, if actionable, defining the supported sensor behavior.

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Description

Hi there!
I'd love to see some temperatures / whatever hardware state info I can get my hands on on my android hardware media player. Can I help this somehow?

$ termux-sensor -a
No valid sensors were registered!
$ termux-sensor -l
{
  "sensors": []
}

I stumbled upon a bug report of someone trying to build lm-sensors, should I try that instead?
https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/1309

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