We’ve had some interesting plans in this area… But nothing to announce yet…

Scenes in HTC Sense is a private API, which means that third party apps like Locale cannot access it.

HTC has launched a new developer API for Sense UI devices at http://www.htcdev.com/

Unfortunately, these APIs are extremely limited and do not allow developers access to more advanced features such as Scenes.

With Locale’s open plug-in architecture, the Locale part of this feature request is complete.

At this point dgAway would simply need to implement a plug-in setting for Locale. Please contact the author of dgAway, as the ball is now in his court.

A 3rd party developer has created a plug-in called “Locale Lockscreen Plug-in” that implements this feature request.

This plug-in can be found by choosing the “Get Plug-ins” menu item within Locale.

Given that this is a hack for specific devices that lack an ambient lighting sensor (e.g. G1, Tattoo, and a few others), this feature doesn’t make sense at this time.

The good news is that Locale 1.0 is compatible with phones that have an ambient lighting sensor built in (such as the Droid, Nexus One, etc.)

There is also the possibility that a 3rd party developer will create this feature as a plug-in condition for Locale 1.0.

Actually, I think there’s a better way to organize this:

I’m marking this feature request as complete, as there are two ways currently to detect when the phone is in a car: a car dock condition or a Bluetooth condition, both of which are available now as plug-ins on the Android Market.

In order to have the votes correctly tallied, created a new request for a speed condition. If you want a speed condition, vote here:

http://feedback.twofortyfouram.com/forums/5655-locale-feedback/suggestions/884809-speed-condition