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RE: Trouble accessing CMPS03 via I2CGeneric

jsummerour — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:40:55 GMT

Cool! That works!

I was using the '<<' shift operator t shift each sequential bit to the left, to convert the bytes into an int.

I didn't have time to compile it and debug it, and typed it at almost 1:00am. :)

Also, now that you have the updated firmware, you should be getting spaces between the values, instead of the '\r'.

Best Regards!

RE: Trouble accessing CMPS03 via I2CGeneric

cjohns — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:05:20 GMT

UPDATE: I updated the firmware in the Serializer and it started working. Guess I should have thought of that one first ... :)

RE: Trouble accessing CMPS03 via I2CGeneric

cjohns — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:16:49 GMT

Jason,

Thanks for quick response. Had some trouble with the code, so I started stepping through it. First problem seems to be that rather than strReadings getting "255 255" as your code assumed, it was actually pulling the value "255/r/n255r/n". So before I could do the Split(' '), I had to do a replace

readings.Replace("\r", " ");

With that taken care of, it now gets stuck on the line:

int part = Convert.ToByte(r) << (pos*1);

The runtime error it gives (which occurs the first time it hits this line) is "Input string was not in the correct format".

Since I am not entirely sure what you are doing on this row, I'm not sure how to debug it. I'm not too familiar with the << operator, although I just finished reading a little about it on MSDN. And I am not sure why you would multiply pos by 1, that wouldn't ever do anything would it?

However, that problem aside, I'm thinking there is a bug in the I2CDevice class when it comes to reading the I2C registers. I just compiled and ran your example code for the I2CDevice [url]http://www.roboticsconnection.com/multimedia/libraries/MSDNDocumentation/[/url] (modifying only the COM port, BaudRate, and the I2CAddress to the TPA81 so it would fully run on my system), and it too read only "255" off the compass sensor and 255 for all registers of the TPA81 as well. (Both these sensors work fine when read from their respective CMPS03 and TPA81 classes).

RE: Trouble accessing CMPS03 via I2CGeneric

jsummerour — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:48:43 GMT

Try something like this...

private void ReadHighResCompassRegister()
{
i2cd.Write(0xC0, "2"); // Start reading at register 2
string reading = i2cd.Read(0xC0, "2"); // Read registers/bytes 2 and 3
// Bytes returned are separated by spaces:
string [] readings = reading.Split(' ');
int pos = 0;
int heading = 0;
// Convert bytes to word:
foreach (string r in readings)
{
// There's probably a simpler way to do this...
int part = Convert.ToByte(r) << (pos * 1);
heading = heading | part;
}

lblCompass.Text = heading.ToString();
}

Best Regards!

Trouble accessing CMPS03 via I2CGeneric

cjohns — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:21:25 GMT

I attempted to roughly follow the example for the I2CDevice accessing CMPS03 compass, posted at:
http://www.roboticsconnection.com/multimedia/libraries/MSDNDocumentation/_23n15r2ti.htm

The main difference being that I am doing it from a Windows Forms not Console. Here is what I coded, which is not working (always returns "255"). [FYI, my compass is working fine using Serializer.NET class CMPS03, so its not a hardware issue]. Let me know if you see anything wrong here ...

[Declaration]:
private static I2CDevice i2cd;

[Form_Load]:
i2c = new I2CDevice(serializer)
i2cd.I2CAddress = 0xC0;
i2cd.ReadCommand = "1";
i2cd.WriteCommand = "1";
//I notice there is no i2cd.Update() like I would normally use for CMPS03 class?

[Periodic_Timer_Tick]:
serializer.PumpEvents();
i2cd.Write();
lblCompass.Text = i2cd.Read().ToString(); //always posts 255 to my label