I am trying to build a small battery monitoring system using LTC 6804-1 IC which will send the cell voltages over I2C to my STM32 Nucleo board. I have read and understood I2C and how to use the HAL APIs for communication. However, I am not able to understand anything about the communication from the datasheet of LTC 6804-1. https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/data-sheets/680412fc.pdf I was looking for the slave address it sends data to and also the length of data. But I can see configuring some data registers which is bit of confusing. At point I do not know where to even start? Or is it actually easy that I have to connect wires and it starts?
Any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks!
The LTC6804 is not using I2C for communication, it's using SPI. It can host I2C communication to a slave device. Reread the data sheet thoroughly. Although I must agree, the manual is not really written very well, or at least there could be a lot more info, not only on how to get started...
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This website http://www.esp32learning.com/code/esp32-and-infrared-receiver-example.php uses Arduino code to read the data from an IR transmitter (remote control/wand).
Has anyone done the same for MicroPython?
You would want to think about the specifics of which board MicroPython is running on, and what kind of IR transceiver you have, however, at the time of answering there is at least one MicroPython library that should help here.
I want to connect an STM32F407 Discovery board with a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B.
And I want to use UART as communication so I plan to use PD5&6 on STM32 and Pin8&10 on RPi. But after looking up online it says that the voltage of a STM32 port is 5V and RPi is 3.3V, so it seems that I need a level converter between them?
And there are also some articles says that not all the STM32 port are 5V, some are 3.3V. But I cannot find any of that information in the datasheet. Can anyone tell me where can I find these information?
Thank you very much ~ ~
The STM32 uses 3.3V as well. But it's 5V tolerant.
Just go ahead and connect them. There is no voltage difference.
You should have a look at the reference manual for that discovery board. It is here: STM32F407 Reference Manual.
There should be no issue connecting UARTs between those boards. Just remember to connect the TX from one to the RX of the other and vice versa. You can also use the CTS/RTS for flow control, but that isn't necessary as long as you are using baud rates of 115200 or slower.
Something else that I would recommended is to power the Raspberry Pi from the Discovery board. There should be pins for suitable power on the discovery. This is important because it gets both boards using the same power and ground so that the UART logic levels are consistent between the two. This may not be necessary, but I have had issues trying to connect two Nucleo boards SPI busses together if I didn't power one board from the other.
I am working on edge computing for IoT applications and expected to create a system that acts as a near edge computer with the use of a raspberry pi hooked up to a dht11 sensor. How do I send this data over to a computer that is at the edge? Ideally I want to use my PC as this device but I have no clue how to send this data over in real time.
So far I have created the circuit and can view the temperature and humidity readings on the raspberry pi in python. Unsure of what the next steps are - I don't want to send this data over to the cloud just yet.
Side note: I believe i may be missing knowledge regarding this but is the raspberry pi an edge device because it is hooked up to the sensor directly?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
You need to think this through a bit more. What will you do with the temperature and humidity data that you receive?
For example, if you're just experimenting and want to just see the readings in a console on your PC, you can use netcat to send the console output of your Python program from the RPi to PC. No SW development needed, they just have to be in the same network. Not particularly useful for anything else, either.
Otherwise you need to set up some client-server solution between the RPi and your PC. There's a ton of possible solutions, all depending on what you plan to do with the data. You can use MQTT, HTTP, a straight database connection (MySQL, PostgreSQL), etc. You have to supply both sides of the connection. The Python code on client side which connects and sends data; and the server side thing that accepts the samples and stores them somewhere. Plus all the networking, authentication etc.
Or you can just download the Python client libraries for your favourite cloud solution and set that up according to a tutorial. TBH, this sounds a lot less work to me.
I want to read the CAN bus and get the data from a specific device on the CAN bus. I have implemented this previously using the Socket communication api that is available in the user space (sys/socket).
I now have a similar requirement but this time working on device drivers which work in the kernel space. The same socket communication is i suppose not available in the kernel space which is why i guess i am not able to compile the kernel module with #include .
An approach i have come up to is to create a device driver for device creation and a supporting user-space program to interact it and provide CAN data by using socket communication. If there is any better approach please suggest me.
Is there a sample i2c master code that supports rtc s35390a hardware clock? I am currently working on an SOC that needs to support s35390a from Seiko. But currently, i am getting an error rtc-s35390a 0-0030: hctosys: unable to read the hardware clock. I cannot read/write data properly. I am implementing combined form of transmission.
Use oscilloscope to check if I2C SCL/SDA show some thing
If you can get the first address correct waveform, You will easy to get the register value
This might not be a rtc chip problem.