diff --git a/community/iio-sensor-proxy/0002-proximity-Get-near-level-from-sysfs-if-available.patch b/community/iio-sensor-proxy/0002-proximity-Get-near-level-from-sysfs-if-available.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..504a002e912e29f241e0ad64f9378f4add14a0f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/community/iio-sensor-proxy/0002-proximity-Get-near-level-from-sysfs-if-available.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+From ed427251b703dc832a2051b5e4bdd1b51b99b115 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>
+Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 11:59:03 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] proximity: Get near-level from sysfs if available
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+DT based devices can set the near-level via sysfs. Parse it from
+there too.
+
+Signed-off-by: Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>
+Closes: #297
+---
+ src/drv-iio-poll-proximity.c | 3 +++
+ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/src/drv-iio-poll-proximity.c b/src/drv-iio-poll-proximity.c
+index 98bacb1..432cda5 100644
+--- a/src/drv-iio-poll-proximity.c
++++ b/src/drv-iio-poll-proximity.c
+@@ -100,6 +100,9 @@ get_near_level (GUdevDevice *device)
+ 	gint near_level;
+ 
+ 	near_level = g_udev_device_get_property_as_int (device, PROXIMITY_NEAR_LEVEL);
++	if (!near_level)
++		near_level = g_udev_device_get_sysfs_attr_as_int (device, "in_proximity_nearlevel");
++
+ 	if (!near_level) {
+ 		g_warning ("Found proximity sensor but no " PROXIMITY_NEAR_LEVEL " udev property");
+ 		g_warning ("See https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/hadess/iio-sensor-proxy/blob/master/README.md");
+-- 
+2.30.0
+
diff --git a/community/iio-sensor-proxy/APKBUILD b/community/iio-sensor-proxy/APKBUILD
index ecdd8990e73f2d939ba52d7bec88cef8ab372c2c..228a1bbd30c9c8913e9ec05b61fc7e554e5f00ca 100644
--- a/community/iio-sensor-proxy/APKBUILD
+++ b/community/iio-sensor-proxy/APKBUILD
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Maintainer: Rasmus Thomsen <oss@cogitri.dev>
 pkgname=iio-sensor-proxy
 pkgver=3.0
-pkgrel=1
+pkgrel=2
 pkgdesc="IIO sensors to D-Bus proxy"
 url="https://developer.gnome.org/iio-sensor-proxy/1.0/"
 arch="all"
@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@ makedepends="eudev-dev libgudev-dev glib-dev autoconf automake libtool gtk+3.0-d
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc $pkgname-openrc"
 source="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/hadess/iio-sensor-proxy/uploads/de965bcb444552d328255639b241ce73/iio-sensor-proxy-$pkgver.tar.xz
 	iio-sensor-proxy.initd
-	0001-Revert-build-Check-for-.pc-files-before-using-them.patch"
+	0001-Revert-build-Check-for-.pc-files-before-using-them.patch
+	0002-proximity-Get-near-level-from-sysfs-if-available.patch
+	"
 
 prepare() {
 	default_prepare
@@ -42,4 +44,5 @@ package() {
 
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