How do I access the Accelerometer and Gyroscope on my Surface Pro?

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I'm trying to make a simple tilt-control game.

I figured that the easiest way to test motion controls as I code them was to work on my Surface Pro, since it's basically a full PC with Accelerometer and Gyro. Problem is, Unity doesn't seem to be recognizing these sensors when I test the game in the editor.

I tried the test code from the script reference on a cube "transform.rotation = Input.gyro.attitude;" And nothing happens. I tried printing the attitude and Input.acceleration and all I get are "(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0)" and "(0.0, 0.0, 0.0)" respectively, no matter how much I twist and shake the device.

I do currently have my build settings on Windows Store Apps.

So... how can I make Unity recognize my Surface's sensors?

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Answer by Jason_N · Mar 07, 2016 at 10:19 AM

I found this. When running in unity editor via the Play button the accelerometer doesn't work. I built it (as a Windows Universal store app, via visual studio), then it worked correctly as a standalone app

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TallBrian · Jul 23, 2017 at 11:09 PM 0

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@jason_N I expect that the accelerometer works in a windows Uni App (built in visual studio). But how do you get it to work in Unity?

CraigGraff · Jul 24, 2017 at 12:06 AM 0

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Have you tried this? Input.gyro.enabled = true;

DanVioletSagmiller · Mar 20, 2018 at 05:48 PM 0

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@Jason_N Building it did not work. (running on Surface Pro 5) @CraigGraff I did try Input.gyro.enabled, but it did nothing.
SystemInfo.supportsGyroscope returns false in IDE or EXE :(

CraigGraff DanVioletSagmiller · Mar 20, 2018 at 07:27 PM 0

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I assume you've already realized this, but SystemInfo.supportsGyroscope returning false means that your hardware does not have a gyroscope to read from (or at least doesn't have one that Unity supports).

DanVioletSagmiller DanVioletSagmiller · Mar 21, 2018 at 02:20 AM 0

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Building to pc did not work. building to UWP did. The hardware turned out to work, just not in the IDE. same issue as above. :(

DanVioletSagmiller DanVioletSagmiller · Mar 21, 2018 at 02:21 AM 0

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SystemInfo.supportsGyroscope returns true in a build and false in the ide on the same hardware.

How do I access the Accelerometer and Gyroscope on my Surface Pro?

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