I2C slave mode doesn't work for UnitV Stick



  • Any ideas how to establish a I2C connection with the M5Stack UnitV as I2C.Slave?

    Setup:

    • M5Stack UnitV = I2C Slave
    • ESP8266 = I2C Master + Wifi

    Setting up the UnitV Stick as a I2C slave is failing. I'm connecting a ESP8266 with ports 34,35 of the UnitV and a 4,7kO Pull-Up resistor.

    The scan from the ESP8266 master is successful, but any read or write operation fails with a timeout message. The connection to other I2C devices is successful, when the UnitV is removed from the bus.
    UPDATE: Any write operation - before a read - is successful. After the first read, the bus is blocked.

    import time
    from machine import I2C
    
    I2C_SLAVE_ADDR = 0x3a
    count=0
    
    def i2c_on_receive (data):
        print ("on_receive:", data)
    
    def i2c_on_transmit ():
        count = count + 1
        print ("on_transmit, send:", count)
        return count
    
    def i2c_on_event (event):
        print ("on_event:", event)
    
    print ("starting i2c")
    i2c = I2C(I2C.I2C1, mode = I2C.MODE_SLAVE, scl=34, sda=35,
                freq = 400000, addr = I2C_SLAVE_ADDR,
                addr_size = 7,
                on_receive = i2c_on_receive,
                on_transmit = i2c_on_transmit,
                on_event = i2c_on_event)
    while True:
        time.sleep(20)
    

    ESP8266 Micropython Code:

    from machine import Pin, I2C
    i2c = I2C(scl=Pin(12), sda=Pin(13), freq=400000)
    i2c.scan()  # returns [58]
    i2c.writeto(0x3a,'test') # success, write 4 bytes to slave with address 0x3a
    result = i2c.readfrom(0x3a, 4)  # fails with Timeout
    print(q)
    

    UPDATE 2020-06-26:

    • Code Cleanup (remove ws2812 reference), add esp8266 code


  • i2c.deinit()? why you add deinit? that mean is close the I2C bus



  • @m5stack The deinit() is just called at the end for cleanup. I2C should work in the endless loop "while True: time.sleep(20)"



  • Why not just import the neopixel module if you are just driving some ws2812 rgb leds?



  • Hi @lukasmaximus,

    I want create snapshots with the UnitV via WIFI. The ws2812 import is only to show the status of the camera.

    UnitV = I2C Slave
    ESP8266 = I2C Master + Wifi

    Jan



  • I2C problem seems from the maixpy. maybe you could commit a issues to maixpy github



  • Is this problem already solved?

    It seems to be a mistake in the sample program.

    Although, the variable 'count' in the function i2c_transmit() should be global, it is interpreted as local.

    I modified the function i2c_on_transmit() as follows:

    def i2c_on_transmit ():
        global count
        count = count + 1
        print ("on_transmit, send:", count)
        return count
    

    Then, it worked well.