Monday, November 19, 2012

Raspberry Pi I2C

I have a Raspberry Pi and lets face it, who doesn't?

I have played with linux on many architectures before including PPC, Hitachi, MIPS, PA-RISC and Sparc so I figure I had better have a go at ARM too.

Apart from playing around, I plan to create a light controller module for my garden lights. This will require some hardware hacking which is always a bit of fun but my main plan is to bring it together with some fancy software.

In previous projects I have interfaced with GPIO and I2C to run door controllers and read swipe cards (Mostly on the WRT54G).

I could not find accurate instructions for getting I2C going on the rpi so here are my instructions for users for raspbian:

Install some tools
# apt-get install i2c-tools

edit  /etc/modprobe.d/raspi-blacklist.conf and comment out the line


i2c-bcm2708

I don't know why it comes as blacklisted.

edit /etc/modules and add the lines
i2c-bcm2708
i2c-dev
This will make sure the drivers are loaded during the boot.

create a file /etc/udev/rules.d/99-i2c.rules and add the line
SUBSYSTEM=="i2c-dev", MODE="0666"
This will give all users access to the i2c devices. You could instead set the owner or group but the rpi is not normally being used as a multi-user device

Now you can test these changes without a reboot:
modprobe i2c-bcm2708
modprobe i2c-dev
udevadm trigger
ls -l /dev/i2c*

And you should see output like this (Your date will be different):
crw-rw-rwT 1 root i2c 89, 0 Nov 18 22:36 /dev/i2c-0
crw-rw-rwT 1 root i2c 89, 1 Nov 18 22:36 /dev/i2c-1

If that works, reboot and run the ls again. The devices should be there and have world read/write permissions.

Now, to connect up some hardware and show that it works. Look for a new blog soon.

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