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Re: Reading mediatek device [Was: No sentence logs]
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Gary E. Miller |
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Re: Reading mediatek device [Was: No sentence logs] |
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Tue, 19 Mar 2024 20:51:13 -0700 |
Yo tangoing.mill745@aceecat.org!
On Tue, 19 Mar 2024 20:02:01 -0700
tangoing.mill745@aceecat.org wrote:
> I have a working prototype here:
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> https://gist.github.com/nobrowser/285d63410b9c2aec77a53587020cf2b6
Cool. YOu should add a SPDX licenese line to it.
> it is a prototype because reading data via i2c *really* sucks,
> and doing it with the adafruit python interface makes it suck
> exponentially. i.e. there seems to be no other way to read than to
> poll, and that 1 byte at at time ...
Yeah, that was what I expected.
> So my next step is to write a trivial C daemon with libi2c just to get
> the data from the hardware.
I'll guess the problem is the I2C speed, not the python, but look forward
to your hard data.
> I'm happy with my decision to bypass gpsd, though.
Since gpsd can't read I2C, an easy decision.
RGDS
GARY
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