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This is a manual test application for the SRF02 ultrasonic ranger driver.

Usage

First you always need to initialize the sensor using the init shell command and the devices address in right-aligned, decimal format (as specified in the reference manual), e.g.: init 224.

If successful (the shell will tell you...), you can sample distance data from the device, either once (shoot) or continuously every second (sample).

This test application also allows to re-program the I2C address of SRF02 devices. For this initialize the device with its current address and then change to the new address using the addr shell command (e.g. addr 228). After calling the addr command, this application will automatically re-initialize the device with the new address, so it is usable right away. Refer to the datasheet for more information on usable addresses.

The following sequence shows how to re-program a device. The initial address is 224, the new address after the sequence is 228:

2016-03-21 15:53:34,049 - INFO # > init 224
2016-03-21 15:53:34,054 - INFO # Initializing SRF02 sensor at I2C_DEV(0), address is 224
2016-03-21 15:53:34,079 - INFO # ... [Ok]
2016-03-21 15:53:34,079 - INFO #
shoot
2016-03-21 15:53:37,339 - INFO # > shoot
2016-03-21 15:53:37,411 - INFO # distance =  94 cm
addr 228
2016-03-21 15:53:41,468 - INFO # > addr 228
2016-03-21 15:53:41,472 - INFO # Set address to 228
shoot
2016-03-21 15:53:42,454 - INFO # > shoot
2016-03-21 15:53:42,527 - INFO # distance =  94 cm
init 224
2016-03-21 15:53:48,933 - INFO # > init 224
2016-03-21 15:53:48,938 - INFO # Initializing SRF02 sensor at I2C_DEV(0), address is 224
2016-03-21 15:53:48,962 - INFO # ... [Failed]
shoot
2016-03-21 15:53:50,568 - INFO # > shoot
2016-03-21 15:53:50,641 - INFO # distance = 29703 cm
init 228
2016-03-21 15:53:53,084 - INFO # > init 228
2016-03-21 15:53:53,089 - INFO # Initializing SRF02 sensor at I2C_DEV(0), address is 228
2016-03-21 15:53:53,113 - INFO # ... [Ok]
2016-03-21 15:53:53,113 - INFO #
shoot
2016-03-21 15:53:54,201 - INFO # > shoot
2016-03-21 15:53:54,274 - INFO # distance =  94 cm