Read a word (2 byte) without providing a register address from userspace
I am trying to read out an i2c ambient light sensor BH1750 from C in userspace. I am using a BeagleBone pocket with Linux.
The Datasheet says, that after a measurement operation the result needs to be read with the following i2c sequence: S Adr Rd (A) (Data) A (Data) NA P.
The issue I ran into: All examples/commands I have found either are only reading 1 byte or are requiring a register address to read more.
The closest I found was the following command: i2c_master_recv().
However my interpretation of the documentation is that this command is used in kernel-device-drivers.
How can I issue such a I2C-Read-Sequence from Userspace?
I was able to solve it using this comment from Ian Abbott:
Assuming the I2C controller has been opened, and the I2C_SLAVE ioctl command has been used to set Adr, The read syscall with a length of 2 will perform the above I2C read transaction. – Ian Abbott Oct 4 at 13:45
Here is a Logicanalyzer-Trace of the resulting I2C communication:
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