CMMotionManager and the Gyroscope on iPhone 4

Question

I am trying to simply NSLog the output of the new iPhone 4 Gyroscope. But after reading the documentation and following their sample code I am getting this error.

ERROR,Time,300635803.946,Function,"CLLoggingSetFile",could not open locations log /var/mobile/Library/Caches/CoreMotion/CoreMotion.log

Even if I just setup my motionManager object with [[CMMotionManager alloc] init]; on its own and no other code, I still get the error.

Here is my .h file.

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#import <CoreMotion/CoreMotion.h>

@interface GyroTest0ViewController : UIViewController {
    CMMotionManager *motionManager;
    NSOperationQueue *opQ;
}

@end

And here my .m file.

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];

    // the error occurs even just with this line on its own
    motionManager = [[CMMotionManager alloc] init]; 

    if (motionManager.gyroAvailable) {
        motionManager.gyroUpdateInterval = 1.0/60.0;
        [motionManager startGyroUpdates];
        opQ = [[NSOperationQueue currentQueue] retain];
        CMGyroHandler gyroHandler = ^ (CMGyroData *gyroData, NSError *error) {
            CMRotationRate rotate = gyroData.rotationRate;
            NSLog(@"rotation rate = [%f, %f, %f]", rotate.x, rotate.y, rotate.z);
        };
    } else {
        NSLog(@"No gyroscope on device.");
        [motionManager release];
    }
}

Any help and/or source code to simply log the iPhone 4 gyroscope data would be much appreciated. Many thanks!

Answer 1

Try this,

    motionManager.gyroUpdateInterval = 1.0/60.0;
    [motionManager startGyroUpdatesToQueue:[NSOperationQueue currentQueue]
                               withHandler: ^(CMGyroData *gyroData, NSError *error)
                                            {
                                                CMRotationRate rotate = gyroData.rotationRate;
                                                NSLog(@"rotation rate = [%f, %f, %f]", rotate.x, rotate.y, rotate.z);
                                            }];

Answer 2

I get the same error when I try to log the 'attitude', but the error does not seem to cause a real problem: the NSLog works.

Answer 3

Any results regarding this issue? I get the same error even when I use WWDC teapot demo code. I filed a bug report (8382659).

By the way I get the same error when I use the push method described by Joshua Weinberg.

Update: Apple confirmed the bug but referred to a duplicate issue 8173937 that I can't find. Well let's hope that it will be fixed in the next release.

Answer 4

Pleases anyone tell me how can i find the WWDC teapot demo code?

Answer 5

For the WWDC sample code:

• Log in to ADC
• Click on WWDC 2010 session videos
• View in iTunes
• There you find the link to sample code (230 MB)

Answer 6

Thanks Kay. I got the code.