How do I find the proximity sensor status

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L.S.,

I may have a proximity sensor issue, but do not know how to find its status from the CLI.

On a Maemo it would be a matter of:

cat /sys/devices/platform/gpio-switch/proximity/state

But this is not a Maemo, but SailFish OS on a Xperia 10-II

It looks like it should be someplace under /sys/devices/platform/soc/soc:tlmm_gpio_100_reg/subsystem/ but that is quite the rabbit hole and I cannot find it.

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Go into settings, on the ‘system’ tab and scroll down to ‘About Product’. Go into this page and look for ‘Build’. Tap on this 5 times and the CSD tool will load.

Go into ‘Individual Tests’ and select ‘Proximity Sensor’.

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Thanks, that worked.

It turns out that the proximity sensor is not working, but the light sensor is. Aren’t they the same device?

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Might be easier to just run csd in terminal.

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On my Xperia10iii this works, and gives a bunch of dbus methods you can call:

 busctl introspect com.nokia.SensorService /SensorManager/proximitysensor
 busctl introspect com.nokia.SensorService /SensorManager/alssensor

For example:

busctl call com.nokia.SensorService /SensorManager/proximitysensor local.ProximitySensor proximity
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