IMFSensorActivityMonitor interface (mfidl.h)

Provides methods for controlling a sensor activity monitor.

Inheritance

The IMFSensorActivityMonitor interface inherits from the IUnknown interface. IMFSensorActivityMonitor also has these types of members:

Methods

The IMFSensorActivityMonitor interface has these methods.

IMFSensorActivityMonitor::Start Starts the sensor activity monitor.
IMFSensorActivityMonitor::Stop Stops the sensor activity monitor.

Remarks

Get an instance of this class by calling MFCreateSensorActivityMonitor. Sensor activity reports are delivered through the IMFSensorActivitiesReportCallback interface passed into this method.

Examples

The examples below are using C++/WinRT to author COM callback class and Windows Implementation Libraries (WIL).

Full sample Visual Studio project can be found from the Windows-Camera GitHub repository

The following example shows a class declaration that implements IMFSensorActivitiesReportCallback.

class MyCameraNotificationCallback : public winrt::implements <MyCameraNotificationCallback, IMFSensorActivitiesReportCallback>
{
public:
    
    static HRESULT CreateInstance(_In_z_ LPCWSTR symbolicName, _COM_Outptr_ MyCameraNotificationCallback** value) noexcept;

    // IMFSensorActivitiesReportCallback
    IFACEMETHODIMP OnActivitiesReport(_In_ IMFSensorActivitiesReport* sensorActivitiesReport) override;

    bool IsInUse();

private:

    HRESULT Initialize(_In_z_ LPCWSTR symbolicName);

    WCHAR   _symbolicName[MAX_PATH] = {};
    bool    _inUse = false;
    wil::slim_event  _event;
};

The next example shows the implementation of the OnActivitiesReport callback.

The OnActivitiesReport function updates a boolean class member to indicate whether the queried sensor device is currently in use and then sets an event to signal that the status has been obtained.

Note that the callback can be called multiple times and may not contain any reports, so the event is only set when reports were found.

IFACEMETHODIMP MyCameraNotificationCallback::OnActivitiesReport(_In_ IMFSensorActivitiesReport* sensorActivitiesReport)
{
    bool inUse = false;
    wil::com_ptr_nothrow<IMFSensorActivityReport> sensorActivity;
    ULONG cProcCount = 0;

    printf("\nGetActivityReportByDeviceName [%ws] \n", _symbolicName);
    RETURN_IF_FAILED_WITH_EXPECTED(sensorActivitiesReport->GetActivityReportByDeviceName(_symbolicName, &sensorActivity),MF_E_NOT_FOUND);

    RETURN_IF_FAILED(sensorActivity->GetProcessCount(&cProcCount));
    for (ULONG i = 0; i < cProcCount; i++)
    {
        BOOL fStreaming = FALSE;
        wil::com_ptr_nothrow<IMFSensorProcessActivity> processActivity;

        RETURN_IF_FAILED(sensorActivity->GetProcessActivity(i, &processActivity));
        RETURN_IF_FAILED(PrintProcessActivity(processActivity.get()));
        
        RETURN_IF_FAILED(processActivity->GetStreamingState(&fStreaming));

        if (fStreaming)
        {
            inUse = true;
            break;
        }
    }

    // Set flag that the device is in use and then signal event
    _inUse = inUse;
    if (cProcCount > 0)
    {
        _event.SetEvent();
    }

    return S_OK;
}

This example shows a class method that waits for the event to be signaled by the OnActivitiesReport callback. As the OnActivitiesReport will only SetEvent when activities where found, we want to use some reasonable timeout value for WaitForSingleObject, this example uses 500ms and any timeout cases will be translated to "camera not in use".

bool MyCameraNotificationCallback::IsInUse( )
{
    if (_event.wait(500))
    {
        return _inUse;
    }

    return false;
}

The following example shows an implementation that calls MFCreateSensorActivityMonitor to create the activity monitor and then calls the IsInUse class method shown above to determine if the specified sensor is currently in use.

HRESULT IsCameraInUse(
    _In_z_ LPCWSTR symbolicName,
    bool& inUse
)
{
    wil::com_ptr_nothrow<MyCameraNotificationCallback> cameraNotificationCallback;
    wil::com_ptr_nothrow<IMFSensorActivityMonitor> activityMonitor;
    wil::com_ptr_nothrow<IMFShutdown> spShutdown;

    RETURN_IF_FAILED(MyCameraNotificationCallback::CreateInstance(symbolicName, &cameraNotificationCallback));

    // Create the IMFSensorActivityMonitor, passing in the IMFSensorActivitiesReportCallback.
    RETURN_IF_FAILED(MFCreateSensorActivityMonitor(cameraNotificationCallback.get(), &activityMonitor));

    // Start the monitor
    RETURN_IF_FAILED(activityMonitor->Start());

    // Call the method that checks to if the monitored device is in use.
    inUse = cameraNotificationCallback->IsInUse();

    // Stop the activity monitor.
    RETURN_IF_FAILED(activityMonitor->Stop());

    // Shutdown the monitor.
    RETURN_IF_FAILED(activityMonitor.query_to(&spShutdown));

    RETURN_IF_FAILED(spShutdown->Shutdown());

    return S_OK;
}

Requirements

Requirement	Value
Minimum supported client	Windows 10, version 1703 [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server	None supported
Target Platform	Windows
Header	mfidl.h