Getting IMU data

Reach Module / M+ / M2 Getting started
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I also need to use the IMU as a logger and found this to work:

  • Download that zip, scp it over to your reach with “scp MPUtest-master.zip root@YOUR.REACH.IP.HERE:/home/root”
  • SSH to the reach as user root with password emlidreach
  • Unzip the file and cd into the directory
  • make
  • sudo ./MPUtest

That will just spew the data out. At this point I was happy enough with that and just redirected it to a file. Or one could pipe it somewhere else. Or write better and optimized c++ code. Mine’s still a work in progress, so that’s as far as I’ve gone so far. I did add a printout of the time to my version.

I did notice that I didn’t get any magnetometer data until I upgraded the reach firmware from 1.2 to 2.3, so you may need to update. That’s the firmware, not reachview. My units are firmware 2.3 with reachview version 2.2.7.

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