Ultrasonic Sensor with BrickPi and Raspberry Pi 2

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Hello together,

we are working at a project to setup a self parking car for our University. We’ve done this already with MATLAB and the EV3-Controller of LEGO. Everything is ok. Now we also want to do this with the Raspberry Pi 2 and the BrickPi.
All Motors are running perfectly but i don’t get any correct value of the ultrasonic sensors.

We use:

  • Raspberry Pi 2 (with 2015.11.09_Dexter_Industries_wheezy) and completly updated
  • BrickPi
  • 3 Motors from LEGO EV3 (one for steering and two for driving) ==> they work perfectly
  • 2 ultrasonic sensors from LEGO EV3
  • programming with python

I think i’ve tested all options to get the ultrasonic sensors running on the BrickPi. (I’ve tried the Rasp B+ Model, the Rasp 2 Model, different ultrasonic sensors, different sensor slots, powered by battery pack or over the rasp connection, system with updated, system without updates).
If i use the “EV3_ultrasonic_test.py” the sensor returns always 0. If it’s disconnected something about 1008.
But if i use the “LEGO_ultrasonic_test.py” the sensor always returns -1, no matter if it’s connected or not.

All sensors work. I’ve tried it with MATLAB.

So maybe you have an idea to fix that problem?

Thanks in advance
Felix

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Hey Felix, this must be maddening, I’m sorry.

First, which version of the BrickPi are you using? Does it have a version number on the board?

The EV3-Ultrasonic_test.py is the correct version of the software to try with the EV3 ultrasonic sensor. Can you double check the sensor is plugged into the properly numbered port?

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Hi John,
thank you very much for your fast answer!

But we just fixed the Problem. The Problem was, that we had the wrong BrickPi-Version. We had the BrickPi not the BrickPi+.

Felix

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Great, thanks Felix. Glad we could get this working!

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