I tried to get the part number for the accelerometer from im Watch developer support and they refused to give it to me. The response was you don’t need need that information just use the supplied sensor library. I tried to tell them the library would only collect data at 10 Hz and I require 200 Hz. It also wastes time by always sampling the magnetometer and the accelerometer even if you only need the accelerometer data.<\/p>\n
After trying for a few days to get the information from developer support I decided to figure it out for myself.<\/p>\n
I wrote a little i2c scanner and enumerated the devices on the bus. I found a device at 0x19 and 0x1e. now to figure out what they are. I disassembled the the sensor library supplied by imdeveleoper.it and found the hex constant 0x19 in the initAccel function. So far so good.<\/p>\n
I then stepped up my scanner to read all of the registers from 0 to 127. The first register was at 0x7 and the second was at 0xF and then a bunch more upto 0x2F. I had expected some kind of who am I at 0x0. No such luck. I re-read the registers a few times looking for the changing values. The values at 0x28 to 0x2d changed with the orientation of the device. Good I’ve found the accelerator, but which one ?<\/p>\n
I started going through accelerometer datasheets and found that the st micro parts had a who_am_i variable at 0xF. I finally found a match, 0x33 in the LIS3DSH<\/a> datasheet. The changing values also correspond to the locations of the x, y and z values \u00a0so I’m pretty sure I’ve found the correct part.\u00a0EDIT: i’m Watch support finally got back to me and it is actually the\u00a0LSM303DLHC<\/a>. The magnetometer and thermometer are both integrated.<\/p>\n So now I get to re-write the imWatch sensor library. The good news is that the accelerometer has a FIFO, can sample at 5KHz and has a temperature sensor. After I’ve re-written the sensor lib I’m going to see what’s hiding in the magnetometer.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I tried to get the part number for the accelerometer from im Watch developer support and they refused to give it to me. The response was you don’t need need that information just use the supplied sensor library. I tried … Continue reading