I2CAccelerometerSample and Raspberry PI

HarrySatt

Hi

I am trying to get the I2CAccelerometerSample running but I am not successful. The sample uses a read which communicats with the MMA without using combined read sequence. This means a STOP condition is send after the transfer of the register pointer which erases this information and the read always reads at 0x00. Which is defenitly wrong. With bash I can read in the data correctly. For example I was trying to read out the WHO_AM_I Device ID register. this shoul read 0x2A. That is fixed.

I tried with the command prompt on the RPi. This does well as you can see in the screenshot and the oscilloscop output.

This is correct reading from the WHO_AM_I ID register.

If I try the I2CAccelerometerSample from the ME SDK and add one line in the private void initializeAccelerometer() to read out the WHO_AM_I ID register

	private void initializeAccelerometer() throws IOException {
	// read WHO_AM_I DEVICE_ID from register 0x0D
	int ID = readRegister( (byte)0x0d );
	// set 0 to 0x2A control register to set the accelerometer in configurable mode
	writeRegister(CTRL_REG1_ADDRESS, (byte) 0);
	// set accelerometer range to 8g
	writeRegister(XYZ_DATA_CFG_ADDRESS, (byte) 2);
	// turn the active mode on
	writeRegister(CTRL_REG1_ADDRESS, (byte) 1);
	}

This gives me FF what is really wrong. See oscilloscope reading. The transfer of the register pointer is followed by a stop sequence and the MMA can not deal with this. The read request is far away leading to a wrong reading. I am not sure that this sample ever worked with a Raspberry Pi.

If the sample is running and it does I only see 0.

What can I do.