There doesn’t seem to be a lot of info on this. Culturally I’m aware that this is a problem in South-Korea at least, but could also be something that will become more problematic in the west.
The tech probably is a combination of wifi-signal detector an IR-led light (for night/low-light) detection. Could similar be made for L5 (or any platform) or is does it need a special HW?
If the RF that it is detecting is only WiFi then I suspect the Librem 5’s WiFi module should be capable of becoming promiscuous, as it were.
There is plenty of RF that is not WiFi however e.g. Bluetooth, cellular, ISM, LoRa, …
I think there is no general IR transmitter or receiver as such in the Librem 5 (which is a pity because it could be cool to be able to use the Librem 5 as a remote control) although I think the proximity sensor is an IR transmitter / receiver of sorts. Maybe you could get an IR transmitter / receiver USB dongle.
My TV remote transmitting in a darkened room, holding down the “on” button.
The red light, which is constant, is visible to the naked eye. The blinking pink light is not.