How can I read the accelerometer in my windows tablet with python?

I have an accelerometer in my tablet, that I can read from within javascript.

How can I access this data in python? Is there some ctypes trickery I can use to call a windows 8 Sensor API function?

Solution

I know this is old but I just found out that you can use winsdk pip install winsdk (community maintained version of winrt)

Here's the documentation for the accelerometer class under the windows runtime api https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.devices.sensors.accelerometer?view=winrt-22621

Basic script for reading out the accelerometer data

import time

import winsdk.windows.devices.sensors
import winsdk.windows.devices.sensors as sensors

accel = sensors.Accelerometer.get_default()


def reading_changed_handler(accel, args: winsdk.windows.devices.sensors.AccelerometerReadingChangedEventArgs):
    reading = args.reading
    print(reading.acceleration_x, reading.acceleration_y, reading.acceleration_z)


accel.add_reading_changed(reading_changed_handler)


while True:
    time.sleep(1)