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Using the i2c smartdrive sensor with a Pio Cli commands to run motors


This is my i2c sensor: http://www.mindsensors.com/rpi/76-smartdrive-high-current-motor-controller look in pdf in Documents sessions please

Based on this google guide https://developer.android.com/things/sdk/pio/pio-cli.html What I need to put in XX ZZ YY UU to run motors in determined speed, direction, duration, etc...

e.g.: pio i2c I2C1 0x1B write-reg-buffer 0xXX 0xYY 0xUU 0xZZ

As (in this case) I will use writeRegBuffer() on my android things app to run one, two or both motors in determined spped, direction, duration, etc?

e.g.: I used (via jcenter) this driver in intel edison/android things DP2, but now I want to create an AT driver to use smartdrive in nx pico and rpi 3, because there would be no more mraa:

https://github.com/androidthings/contrib-drivers/issues/70

My questions is: If you see here: https://github.com/intel-iot-devkit/upm/blob/master/src/smartdrive/smartdrive.hpp and especially in this: https://github.com/intel-iot-devkit/upm/blob/master/src/smartdrive/smartdrive.cxx in function

SmartDrive::Run_Seconds(int motor_id, int direction, uint8_t speed, uint8_t duration, bool wait_for_completion, int next_action )

you will see writeArray(array, sizeof(array));

ok. I need help to use this in android things using writeRegBuffer(int reg, byte[] buffer, int length) and write(byte[] buffer, int length)


Solution

  • run motor 1 in direction A pio i2c I2C1 0x1B write-raw 0x46 128 0x05 0x00 0xD1

    run motor 1 in direction B pio i2c I2C1 0x1B write-raw 0x46 127 0x05 0x00 0xD1

    run motor 2 in direction A pio i2c I2C1 0x1B write-raw 0x4E 128 0x05 0x00 0xD1

    run motor 2 in direction B pio i2c I2C1 0x1B write-raw 0x4E 127 0x05 0x00 0xD1