Unit in which generic_buffer.c application gives data for sensors.

Daniel Baluta daniel.baluta at gmail.com
Thu Jul 2 06:43:26 EDT 2015


On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 10:46 AM, s.rawat <imsaurabhrawat at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> What are the unit in which the generic_buffer.c application gives the
> accelerometer , Gyro and Magnetometer values.
> Thanks in advance !

Hi,

Look for process_scan function in generic_buffer.c. It says:
process_scan() - print out the values in SI units.

Then, look inside IIO ABI file [1] for units associated with _raw attributes.
There you'll find:

* accel - m/s^2
* gyro - rad/s
* magneto - Gauss

thanks,
Daniel.

[1] http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio



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