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Error accessing 0x13: Check your I2C address

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Former Member over 11 years ago

Hi everyone,

 

Did anyone faced this issue while trying to work with VCNL4000 proximity sensor?

 

Trying to use this code from this repo ( https://github.com/marcoschwartz/RaspberryPiCode ) but when invoking this code:

 

 

#!/usr/bin/python


from VCNL4000 import VCNL4000
import time


# ===========================================================================
# Example Code
# ===========================================================================


# Initialise the VNCL4000 sensor
vcnl = VCNL4000(0x13)


# Print proximity sensor data every 100 ms
while True:


          print "Data from proximity sensor", vcnl.read_proximity()
          time.sleep(0.1)

 

When trying to see if the sensor is wired up correctly I get the following output:

 

 

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo i2cdetect -y 1
     0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  a  b  c  d  e  f
00:          -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
10: -- -- -- 13 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
20: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
30: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
40: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
50: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
60: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
70: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

 

 

 

The CPU info of my Raspberry Pi looks like:

 

 

 

Processor   : ARMv6-compatible processor rev 7 (v6l)
BogoMIPS    : 697.95
Features    : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp java tls
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part    : 0xb76
CPU revision    : 7

Hardware    : BCM2708
Revision    : 000e
Serial      : 000000007b9b5e3c

 

 

 

Can anyone tell me what would be the reason why I'm getting this error when running the above script?

 

Data from proximity sensor Error accessing 0x13: Check your I2C address
Error accessing 0x13: Check your I2C address
Error accessing 0x13: Check your I2C address
-1

 

Any comment is appriciated image

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  • Former Member
    Former Member over 11 years ago

    As an experiment, what happens if you change line 11 of Adafruit_I2C.py to

         bus=smbus.SMBus(1)

    ?

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