Bricks snap in sensors

Introduction

By default the the I2C-1 Bus connected to the Brick connector of UDOO NEO is assigned to Cortex-A9 core and it’s possible to control them by Linux driver. If you would use Bricks from the Arduino™ core Cortex-M4 take a look at Introduction to Pinmuxing.

Barometer Brick - MPL3115A2

Here you can find documentation as datasheet, schematics, and montage plane in the Other Resurces page of our website, in the Accessories tab.

Usage

Barometer Brick is able to return Temperature and Pressure ambient values.
In this file you can find the temperature scale (the sensor resolution):

/sys/class/i2c-dev/i2c-1/device/1-0060/iio\:device0/in_temp_scale

In this file you can find the temperature integer raw value (to be multiplied for the above-mentioned resolution):

/sys/class/i2c-dev/i2c-1/device/1-0060/iio\:device0/in_temp_raw

In this file you can find the pressure scale (the sensor resolution):

/sys/class/i2c-dev/i2c-1/device/1-0060/iio\:device0/in_pressure_scale

In this file you can find the pressure integer raw value (to be multiplied for the above-mentioned resolution):

/sys/class/i2c-dev/i2c-1/device/1-0060/iio\:device0/in_pressure_raw

Heads up! If you turn off the M4 the device name can change to

/sys/class/i2c-dev/i2c-1/device/1-0060/iio:device2

Barometer example

This example reads data from the Brick sensor and prints the temperature and pressure on the console:

#!/bin/bash

while [ 1 ]; do
    echo -n 'temp: '
    TEMP_RAW=`cat /sys/class/i2c-dev/i2c-1/device/1-0060/iio\:device0/in_temp_raw`
    TEMP_SCALE=`cat /sys/class/i2c-dev/i2c-1/device/1-0060/iio\:device0/in_temp_scale`
    python << EOF
print( $TEMP_RAW * $TEMP_SCALE )
EOF

    echo -n 'pressure: '
    PRES_RAW=`cat /sys/class/i2c-dev/i2c-1/device/1-0060/iio\:device0/in_pressure_raw`
    PRES_SCALE=`cat /sys/class/i2c-dev/i2c-1/device/1-0060/iio\:device0/in_pressure_scale`
    python << EOF
print( $PRES_RAW * $PRES_SCALE )
EOF
done

Linux kernel support

If you plan to use this Brick sensor with a custom kernel, be sure to build the following module:

Device Driver ->
    -> Industrial I/O support
            -> Pressure Sensors
                ->  Freescale MPL3115A2 pressure sensor Driver    

And declare the sensor in the device-tree too:

&i2c2 {
    clock-frequency = <100000>;
    pinctrl-names = "default";
    pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_i2c2_1>;
    status = "okay";

    barometer: mpl3115@60 {
        compatible = "fsl,mpl3115";
        reg = <0x60>;
    };
};

Connection at boot

If the sensor is already connected at boot the kernel automatically recognizes the sensor. If you connect the sensor when UDOOBuntu already booted, you need to restart the module:

sudo rmmod mpl3115
sudo modprobe mpl3115

Temperature Brick - TMP75b

Here you can find documentation as datasheet, schematics, and montage plane in the Other Resurces page of our website, in the Accessories tab.

Usage

Enable the sensor via the following command:

sudo sh -c 'echo lm75 0x48 > /sys/class/i2c-dev/i2c-1/device/new_device'

(sudo sh -c is required to execute a command as root user)

In this file there is the temperature value in milli-degree Celsius:

/sys/class/i2c-dev/i2c-1/device/1-0048/temp1_input

Temperature example

This example reads data from the Brick sensor and prints the temperature on the console:

#!/bin/bash
while [ 1 ]; do
    cat /sys/class/i2c-dev/i2c-1/device/1-0048/temp1_input
done

Linux kernel support

If you plan to use this Brick sensor with a custom kernel, be sure to build the following module:

Device Drivers  --->
Hardware Monitoring support  --->
        <M>   National Semiconductor LM75 and compatibles

And declare the sensor in the device-tree too:

&i2c2 {
    clock-frequency = <100000>;
    pinctrl-names = "default";
    pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_i2c2_1>;
    status = "okay";

    lm75: lm75@48 {    // Brick Temperature Sensor
  		compatible = "national,lm75";
  		reg = <0x48>;
  	};
};

Connection at boot

If the sensor is already connected at boot the kernel automatically recognizes the sensor. If you connect the sensor when UDOOBuntu already booted, you need to restart the module:

sudo rmmod lm75
sudo modprobe lm75

I2C Snap-in connector for UDOO Bricks