Issues with Using GrovePi and GoPiGo

Hello,

I have both a GoPiGo and a GrovePi which I use together semi-frequently. I recently ordered some new sensors to use with them and found that the GoPiGo could no longer communicate with the GrovePi (with or without the new sensors attached). I disconnected the pair and connected just the GrovePi to my RPi and everyhting was fine. I’m not sure why out of the blue the GrovePi doesn’t work with the GoPiGo anymore, its been connected the same way (through I2C) for months now, with no issue.

I ran the troubleshooting test on the GrovePi whilst it was connected to the GoPiGo and have copied the log file below:

Check space left

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 7.2G 2.9G 4.0G 42% /
devtmpfs 427M 0 427M 0% /dev
tmpfs 432M 0 432M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 432M 6.1M 425M 2% /run
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 432M 0 432M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mmcblk0p1 60M 21M 40M 35% /boot
tmpfs 87M 0 87M 0% /run/user/1000

Check for dependencies

python 2.7.9-1 install ok installed
python-pip 1.5.6-5 install ok installed
git 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u2 install ok installed
libi2c-dev 3.1.1+svn-2 install ok installed
python-serial 2.6-1.1 install ok installed
python-rpi.gpio 0.6.2~jessie-1 install ok installed
i2c-tools 3.1.1+svn-2 install ok installed
python-smbus 3.1.1+svn-2 install ok installed
arduino 2:1.0.5+dfsg2-4 install ok installed
minicom 2.7-1 install ok installed
scratch 1.4.0.6~dfsg1-5 install ok installed

wiringPi Found
wiringPi Found
I2C already removed from blacklist
SPI already removed from blacklist

Check for addition in /modules

I2C-dev already there
i2c-bcm2708 already there
spi-dev already there

Hardware revision

gpio version: 2.32
Copyright Β© 2012-2015 Gordon Henderson
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type: gpio -warranty

Raspberry Pi Details:
Type: Pi 2, Revision: 01, Memory: 1024MB, Maker: Embest

  • Device tree is enabled.
  • This Raspberry Pi supports user-level GPIO access.
    -> See the man-page for more details
    -> ie. export WIRINGPI_GPIOMEM=1

Check the /dev folder

i2c-1
spidev0.0
spidev0.1
ttyAMA0

USB device status

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:8176 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188CUS 802.11n WLAN Adapter
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp. SMSC9512/9514 Fast Ethernet Adapter
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9514 Standard Microsystems Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

/: Bus 01.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=dwc_otg/1p, 480M
|__ Port 1: Dev 2, If 0, Class=Hub, Driver=hub/5p, 480M
|__ Port 1: Dev 3, If 0, Class=Vendor Specific Class, Driver=smsc95xx, 480M
|__ Port 3: Dev 4, If 0, Class=Vendor Specific Class, Driver=rtl8192cu, 480M
Raspbian for Robots Version

V 6.10

This version of Raspbian was modified by Dexter Industries on the Wheezy Raspbian Build.
This version was updated on 2016.10.05

Hostname

dex

Checking for Atmega chip

avrdude: Version 5.10, compiled on Jun 18 2012 at 12:38:29
Copyright Β© 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
Copyright Β© 2007-2009 Joerg Wunsch

     System wide configuration file is "/etc/avrdude.conf"
     User configuration file is "/root/.avrduderc"
     User configuration file does not exist or is not a regular file, skipping

     Using Port                    : unknown
     Using Programmer              : gpio
     AVR Part                      : ATMEGA328P
     Chip Erase delay              : 9000 us
     PAGEL                         : PD7
     BS2                           : PC2
     RESET disposition             : dedicated
     RETRY pulse                   : SCK
     serial program mode           : yes
     parallel program mode         : yes
     Timeout                       : 200
     StabDelay                     : 100
     CmdexeDelay                   : 25
     SyncLoops                     : 32
     ByteDelay                     : 0
     PollIndex                     : 3
     PollValue                     : 0x53
     Memory Detail                 :

                              Block Poll               Page                       Polled
       Memory Type Mode Delay Size  Indx Paged  Size   Size #Pages MinW  MaxW   ReadBack
       ----------- ---- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ---- ------ ----- ----- ---------
       eeprom        65     5     4    0 no       1024    4      0  3600  3600 0xff 0xff
       flash         65     6   128    0 yes     32768  128    256  4500  4500 0xff 0xff
       lfuse          0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0  4500  4500 0x00 0x00
       hfuse          0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0  4500  4500 0x00 0x00
       efuse          0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0  4500  4500 0x00 0x00
       lock           0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0  4500  4500 0x00 0x00
       calibration    0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0     0     0 0x00 0x00
       signature      0     0     0    0 no          3    0      0     0     0 0x00 0x00

     Programmer Type : GPIO
     Description     : Use sysfs interface to bitbang GPIO lines

avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions

Reading | ################################################## | 100% 0.00s

avrdude: Device signature = 0x1e950f

avrdude done. Thank you.

Checking I2C bus for devices

Checking I2C bus 0

Error: Could not open file /dev/i2c-0' or/dev/i2c/0’: No such file or directory

Checking I2C bus 1

 0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  a  b  c  d  e  f

00: – -- – -- – 08 – -- – -- – -- –
10: – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – --
20: – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – --
30: – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – --
40: – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – --
50: – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – --
60: – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – --
70: – -- – -- – -- – --

Checking for firmware version

Traceback (most recent call last):
File β€œ/home/pi/Desktop/GrovePi/Software/Python/grove_firmware_version_check.py”, line 40, in
print(β€œGrovePi has firmware version: %s” %grovepi.version())
File β€œ/home/pi/Desktop/GrovePi/Software/Python/grovepi.py”, line 258, in version
return β€œ%s.%s.%s” % (number[1], number[2], number[3])
TypeError: β€˜int’ object has no attribute β€˜getitem’

After some wrestling I was able to fix this problem by updating the firmware

1 Like

Hi @cjirvene,

Yeah looking at the troubleshooting log it looks like your firmware wasn’t stable and needed an update. Glad that you figured out, thanks for reaching out to us.

-Shoban