Micro suggestions for the fingerprint reader firmware

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Having a fingerprint reader that works on Linux out of the box is… a bit surreal. But there are two small things I can’t seem to do in software that would make it slightly better:

  1. Wake on touch (e.g., send KEY_WAKEUP). This would allow users to unlock with one touch instead of having to hit a random key first.
  2. Blink the power LED when waiting on a fingerprint (blink faster when the fingerprint is accepted?). There’s currently no feedback.

Of course, I don’t expect you’ll have much time to work on features like this for a while… but I figured I’d put it on your radar.

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I’m interested with other people’s findings. Excited to get my batch 8, specifically using the reader on Linux.

Windows Hello might have better support for the “wake on fingerprint unlock”. I don’t plan installing that right away, would be interested to see if this is indeed a firmware thing or Windows though…