I'm having trouble reading and writing to my Adafruit LSM6DSOX IMU from my Raspberry Pi 4 running Ubuntu 20.04. I need to do it via SPI since I require the bandwidth, but I can only seem to read the WHO_AM_I register successfully. Other registers (see below) either returns junk data or 0x00. I have verified that I can read data off the IMU from an Arduino via SPI, so its likely some software issue. Any insight/ideas what could be causing this would be greatly appreciated!
I can read the following registers:
0x0f : 0x6c
0x13 : 0x1c
0x33 : 0x1c
0x53 : 0x1c
0x73 : 0x1c
These are all random registers however, and the value 0x1C doesn't seem to correspond with anything. In fact, CTRL4_C (0x13) is defined as having bit 5=0, so the value being read shouldn't even be possible...
My main.py:
import LSM6DSOX
def main():
imu=LSM6DSOX.LSM6DSOX()
imu.initSPI()
whoamI=imu.read_reg(0x0F)
while(whoamI != imu.LSM6DSOX_ID):
imu.ms_sleep(200)
print('searching for IMU')
whoamI=imu.get_id()
print(hex(whoamI))
print('found lsm6dsox IMU')
imu.spi.close()
imu.spi = None
if __name__=="__main__":
main()
An excerpt of my LSM6DSOX.py:
def initSPI(self):
# Setup communication SPI
self.spi = spidev.SpiDev()
self.spi.open(0, 0)
self.spi.mode=0b11 #mode 3, (mode 0 is also fine)
self.spi.max_speed_hz = 500000
return self.spi
def read_reg(self, reg, len=1):
# Set up message
buf = bytearray(len+1)
buf[0] = 0b10000000 | reg # MSB bit must be 1 to indicate a read operation. this is OR'd with the register address you want to read
resp =self.spi.xfer2(buf) #send (and recieve) data to the imu
if len==1:
return resp[1]
else:
return resp[1:] #display recieved data
def write_reg(self, reg, data, len=1):
# Set up message
buf = bytearray(len+1)
buf[0] = 0b00000000 | reg # MSB bit must be 0 to indicate a read operation. this is OR'd with the register address you want to read
buf[1:] =bytes(data)
resp =self.spi.xfer2(buf) #send (and recieve) data to the imu
return resp[1:] #display recieved data
