Interfacing GrovePi with Scratch 1.4 on Pi

[kwiatks]

Am using scratchpy with GrovePi and am getting the temperature from sensor on A0. Have the following python program but it doesn’t continuously run - see the error message below. I do not yet have firmware 1.1 but wish to know if there are known issues with the original firmware in this area and I should upgrade. I don’t like upgrading for no reason. It does not always crash at the same time (known this since counter i is not always the same value).

import scratch
import smbus
import time
import grovepi
s=scratch.Scratch()
bus=smbus.SMBus(0)
address=0x04
i=0
f=0
while True:
        i=i+1
        if i> 255:
                i=0
        f=grovepi.temp(0)
#       print grovepi.analogRead(0)
        time.sleep(.5)
        s.sensorupdate({'temp' : f})
        print i,grovepi.temp(0)

===============
CTraceback (most recent call last):
File “temp.py”, line 33, in <module>
f=grovepi.temp(0)
File “/home/pi/sensorlab/grove_scratch/grovepi.py”, line 100, in temp
a=analogRead(pin)
File “/home/pi/sensorlab/grove_scratch/grovepi.py”, line 88, in analogRead
time.sleep(.1)
KeyboardInterrupt

[karan]

Hi,
There should be no issue with the AnalogRead in the old firmware. Can you tell us a bit more in detail about the issue that you are facing, along with the error that comes and the analog value that you are getting in the program.

Thanks,
Karan

[kwiatks]

Have changed the code slightly since the above but the error is the same - see below. Is there some tracing option I can turn on for GrovePi or is this dependent on tracing available in Python ?

Confirm I do have Firmware 1.1 since when ran GrovePi /Firmware/new_fw_search.sh this returned “You have the latest firmware”

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo i2cdetect -y 1
     0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  a  b  c  d  e  f
00:          -- 04 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
10: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
20: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
30: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
40: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
50: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
60: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
70: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
pi@raspberrypi ~ $

Error I get :
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “temp.py”, line 35, in <module>
f=grovepi.temp(0)
File “/home/pi/sensorlab/grove_scratch/grovepi.py”, line 100, in temp
a=analogRead(pin)
File “/home/pi/sensorlab/grove_scratch/grovepi.py”, line 87, in analogRead
bus.write_i2c_block_data(address,1,aRead_cmd+[pin,0,0])
IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error

[kwiatks]

Now only have read A0 and temperature sensor on A0 - still same issue - its not reliable and crashes after a few seconds and sometimes a few minutes - can’t use this in a classroom environment - will try a different sensor on A0 and see what happens.

[kwiatks]

Changed again the python program :

import scratch
import smbus
import time
import grovepi
import datetime
s=scratch.Scratch()
bus=smbus.SMBus(0)
address=0x04
i=0
f=0
#ff=open('temp','a')
while True:
        i=i+1
        f=grovepi.temp(0)
        time.sleep(0.5)
        s.sensorupdate({'date' : datetime.datetime.today()})
        s.sensorupdate({'temp' : f})
        s.sensorupdate({'i' : i})
        print i,f
        with open ('temp','a') as ff:
                ff.write(str(i)+','+str(f)+'n')

Output in the file :

173,23.9107594119
174,23.9107594119
175,23.8239250554
176,23.8239250554
177,23.7371324894
178,23.6503810198
179,23.6503810198
180,23.6503810198
181,23.6503810198
182,23.5636699536
183,23.5636699536
184,23.5636699536
185,23.5636699536
186,23.5636699536
187,23.4769985989
188,23.4769985989
189,23.4769985989
190,23.4769985989

Counter reached 190 and then this error :

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "temp.py", line 33, in <module>
    f=grovepi.temp(0)
  File "/home/pi/sensorlab/grove_scratch/grovepi.py", line 100, in temp
    a=analogRead(pin)
  File "/home/pi/sensorlab/grove_scratch/grovepi.py", line 90, in analogRead
    number = bus.read_i2c_block_data(address,1)
IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error

[kwiatks]

Changed so no calls to Scratch at all :

import scratch
import smbus
import time
import grovepi
import datetime
s=scratch.Scratch()
bus=smbus.SMBus(0)
address=0x04
i=0
f=0
#ff=open('temp','a')
while True:
        i=i+1
        f=grovepi.temp(0)
        time.sleep(0.5)
#       s.sensorupdate({'date' : datetime.datetime.today()})
#       s.sensorupdate({'temp' : f})
#       s.sensorupdate({'i' : i})
        print i,f
        with open ('temp','a') as ff:
                ff.write(str(i)+','+str(f)+'n')

Got further but still crashed :

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "temp.py", line 33, in <module>
    f=grovepi.temp(0)
  File "/home/pi/sensorlab/grove_scratch/grovepi.py", line 100, in temp
    a=analogRead(pin)
  File "/home/pi/sensorlab/grove_scratch/grovepi.py", line 87, in analogRead
    bus.write_i2c_block_data(address,1,aRead_cmd+[pin,0,0])
IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error

File output :
369 20.7203883998
370 20.6346447236
371 20.7203883998

[kwiatks]

OK - fixed it by using try blocks :

import scratch
import smbus
import time
import grovepi
import datetime
s=scratch.Scratch()
bus=smbus.SMBus(0)
address=0x04
i=0
f=0
#ff=open('temp','a')
while True:
        try:
                i=i+1
                f=grovepi.temp(2)
                time.sleep(0.5)
                s.sensorupdate({'date' : datetime.datetime.today()})
                s.sensorupdate({'temp' : f})
                s.sensorupdate({'i' : i})
                print i,f
                with open ('temp','a') as ff:
                        ff.write(str(i)+','+str(f)+'n')
        except IOError:
                print "sjk IO Error"
        except:
                print "error"