TOSMotionSensor is an accelerometer driver for Toshiba hackintosh devices. It has been designed to use the built-in accelerometer in any Toshiba device sporting one and should be compatible with any supported device.
TOSMotionSensor also kinda-sorta emulates the built in accelerometer HDD MacBook and MacBook Pros used to come with by publishing the same IOService and can be queried by user-space applications in the same way.
tldr: This is compatible with native macOS applications that use SMS (SMCMotionSensor/Sudden Motion Sensor) data. No proprietary software/patches/hacks necessary.
NOTE: This driver does NOT offer HDD protection. A lot more testing and research needs to be done in order for that to happen. I did not include this in the first release as I don't feel this is as important as it used to be. Most of us are using solid state storage these days. Would still be cool to get working though.
I have tested this kext on High Sierra and Mojave in Clover's 'kexts/Other', SLE, and LE. All seem to be working.
If you do not want to build it yourself you can Download the latest release here
If you would like to get started developing motion-based applications you can check out SMSLib, a library made especially for grabbing accelerometer data on Apple hardware or check out my own display autorotation app Displace for a real-world example.
I am really excited about iOS apps (supposedly) coming to macOS and the possibilities this opens up. Possible uses include:
- Gaming. Playing motion-based iOS games "natively" on a bigger screen.
- Testing for iOS motion-based app developers.
I am very open to pull requests. This is my first kext release and I'm sure that I have some areas to improve upon.
- Development. Check out the source, there are comments, questions, and todos all over the place.
- Testing. If you have a Toshiba device with an accelerometer, please try this out alongside Displace and let me know how it worked for you.
- Financially. Yeeeeessshh, okay, this is where I get uncomfortable. This and other projects take time and something I've come to learn since having a child is that time isn't free. Especially (and ironically) free time. The only thing I have up right now is a Patreon account if you are interested. *cue Sarah McLachlan* Even $1/month is a huge help and allows me to dedicate more time to Hackintosh projects as well as access to more devices to make drivers for.
I cannot thank you enough for even reading this far let alone helping out in any way you can.