Ruuvitag with external I2C sensor

[espruino-discuss]

Posted at 2018-04-03 by jonreid

I have attached a SI7055 temperature sensor to a Ruuvitag as I need 2x temperature sensors for an application. My simple test app is below . If I call readBmpTemp() I get a correct temperature. If I then call read7055Temp() - the first time I get an I2C arbitration error and then the second call works. If I switch back to readBmpTemp() the first reading is incorrect etc

Is there something I have setup wrong ?

var i2c;
var Ruuvitag;

function onInit() {
  Ruuvitag = require("Ruuvitag");
  Ruuvitag.setEnvOn(true);
  
  i2c = new I2C();
  i2c.setup({ scl : D28, sda: D29 });
}

function read7055Temp() {
  i2c.writeTo(0x40, [0xf3,0x40,0x40,0x40]);
  
  setTimeout(function() {
    var rawTemp = i2c.readFrom(0x40, 2);
    var val = (rawTemp[0] << 8) + rawTemp[1];
    var temp = (175.72*val) / 65536 - 46.85;
    console.log(temp);
  }, 10);
}

function readBmpTemp() {
  console.log(Ruuvitag.getEnvData());
}

[espruino-discuss]

Posted at 2018-04-04 by @gfwilliams

It looks like D28 and D29 are already used for SPI for the onboard sensors: http://www.espruino.com/modules/Ruuvitag.js

So setting them to I2C is likely to mess things up. Are there any other pins you think you could get to?

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Posted at 2018-04-04 by jonreid

Oh i did not think to check that. I just assumed the external pads were free. Easy to swap over.