Qwiic on Onion Omega2+ or Python install help

Qwiic System
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Hey All -This is a two part question, any help on either would be greatly appreciated. I was wondering if anyone has gotten the Onion Qwiic expansion board to work? I have a Omega2+, Power dock, Qwiic Expansion and a few sensors.

Qwiic Expansion : https://www.sparkfun.com/products/15080

Onion Power 2 Dock: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14440

Onion Omega 2+ : https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14431

Qwiic Flex Sensor: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14666

Qwiic Temperature Sensor: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/16304

When I open the Onion web interface, install the Sparkfun App and launch it. No sensors show up (following this: https://onion.io/introducing-omega2-qwiic-sensor-kit/) . The Sensor Monitor app appears to respond the flex sensor, fwiw.

The next step was to try to install the Qwiic python module:

pip install sparkfun-qwiic

Which errors out with

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement sparkfun-qwiic-ublox-gps (from sparkfun-qwiic) (from versions: none)

ERROR: No matching distribution found for sparkfun-qwiic-ublox-gps (from sparkfun-qwiic)

So my next step is i2detect -y 0 which does give some output… but I am not making progress.

root@Omega-94DB:~# i2cdetect -y 0

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

00: – – – – – – – – – – – – –

10: – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

20: – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

30: – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

40: – – – – – – – – 48 – – – – 4d – –

50: – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

60: – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

70: – – – – – – – –

root@Omega-94DB:~# i2cget -y 0 0x48

0x00

root@Omega-94DB:~# i2cget -y 0 0x48 0x00

0x00

If anyone has successfully used the Onion QwiicExp or getting the python module installed I’d be psyched if you could lend a hand.

Cheers,

-Joe

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Please try seeing if the instructions on this post helps with your pip error: viewtopic.php?f=105&t=53471

Also double check to make sure there are no multiple devices with the same addresses. If there are, try to change them.

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Thanks for the reply Brandon. That did not work at all on Ubuntu 18.04 or 20.04.

root@bionic:~# pip3 install sparkfun-ublox-gps

Collecting sparkfun-ublox-gps

Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages … ne-any.whl

Requirement already satisfied: pyserial in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from sparkfun-ublox-gps)

Collecting ubxtranslator (from sparkfun-ublox-gps)

Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages … 1.1.tar.gz

Collecting spidev (from sparkfun-ublox-gps)

Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages … 3.5.tar.gz

Building wheels for collected packages: ubxtranslator, spidev

Running setup.py bdist_wheel for ubxtranslator … done

Stored in directory: /root/.cache/pip/wheels/ae/6e/92/58c241718b557538b5a2c55fb4bf525543b5492781d718b971

Running setup.py bdist_wheel for spidev … done

Stored in directory: /root/.cache/pip/wheels/71/1b/54/cbdf8186b66a40a5ac109b69c24a8688322458b80467a847b3

Successfully built ubxtranslator spidev

Installing collected packages: ubxtranslator, spidev, sparkfun-ublox-gps

Successfully installed sparkfun-ublox-gps-1.0.0 spidev-3.5 ubxtranslator-0.1.1

root@bionic:~# pip3 --no-cache-dir install sparkfun-qwiic

Collecting sparkfun-qwiic

Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages … ne-any.whl (208kB)

100% |████████████████████████████████| 215kB 1.2MB/s

Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-dual-encoder-reader (from sparkfun-qwiic)

Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages … ne-any.whl

Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-ccs811 (from sparkfun-qwiic)

Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages … ne-any.whl

Collecting sparkfun-top-phat-button (from sparkfun-qwiic)

Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages … ne-any.whl

Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-max3010x (from sparkfun-qwiic)

Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages … ne-any.whl

Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-pca9685 (from sparkfun-qwiic)

Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages … ne-any.whl

Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-vl53l1x (from sparkfun-qwiic)

Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages … ne-any.whl

Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-keypad (from sparkfun-qwiic)

Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages … ne-any.whl

Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-i2c (from sparkfun-qwiic)

Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages … ne-any.whl

Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-tca9548a (from sparkfun-qwiic)

Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages … ne-any.whl

Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-micro-oled (from sparkfun-qwiic)

Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages … ne-any.whl

Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-bme280 (from sparkfun-qwiic)

Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages … ne-any.whl

Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-proximity (from sparkfun-qwiic)

Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages … ne-any.whl

Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-scmd (from sparkfun-qwiic)

Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages … ne-any.whl

Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-ublox-gps (from sparkfun-qwiic)

Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement sparkfun-qwiic-ublox-gps (from sparkfun-qwiic) (from versions: )

No matching distribution found for sparkfun-qwiic-ublox-gps (from sparkfun-qwiic)

Trying this on the Onion Omega2+ it seems like it is a problem with OpenWRT on the Omega as SPIDEV won’t build. I’ve installed python3-spidev via opkg, but it seems pip doesn’t recognize it.

root@Omega-94DB:~# pip3.6 --no-cache-dir install sparkfun-ublox-gps

Collecting sparkfun-ublox-gps

Downloading sparkfun_ublox_gps-1.0.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (2.2 kB)

Requirement already satisfied: pyserial in /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from sparkfun-ublox-gps) (3.4)

Collecting spidev

Downloading spidev-3.5.tar.gz (10 kB)

Requirement already satisfied: ubxtranslator in /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from sparkfun-ublox-gps) (0.1.1)

Building wheels for collected packages: spidev

Building wheel for spidev (setup.py) … error

ERROR: Failed building wheel for spidev

Running setup.py clean for spidev

Failed to build spidev

DEPRECATION: Could not build wheels for spidev which do not use PEP 517. pip will fall back to legacy ‘setup.py install’ for these. pip 21.0 will remove support for this functionality. A possible replacement is to fix the wheel build issue reported above. You can find discussion regarding this at https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/8368.

Installing collected packages: spidev, sparkfun-ublox-gps

Running setup.py install for spidev … error

ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: /usr/bin/python3 -u -c ‘import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = ‘"’"’/tmp/pip-install-5hkoi3bm/spidev/setup.py’“'”‘; file=’“'”‘/tmp/pip-install-5hkoi3bm/spidev/setup.py’“'”‘;f=getattr(tokenize, ‘"’“‘open’”’“‘, open)(file);code=f.read().replace(’”‘"’\r\n’“'”‘, ‘"’"’\n’“'”‘);f.close();exec(compile(code, file, ‘"’“‘exec’”’"‘))’ install --record /tmp/pip-record-q4v2lxj8/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /usr/include/python3.6/spidev Check the logs for full command output.

On Ubuntu 20.04:

root@focal:~# pip3 install sparkfun-qwiic

Collecting sparkfun-qwiic

Downloading sparkfun_qwiic-1.0.12-py2.py3-none-any.whl (208 kB)

|████████████████████████████████| 208 kB 678 kB/s

Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-scmd

Downloading sparkfun_qwiic_scmd-0.9.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (7.9 kB)

Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-keypad

Downloading sparkfun_qwiic_keypad-0.9.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (5.2 kB)

Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-i2c

Downloading sparkfun_qwiic_i2c-0.9.11-py2.py3-none-any.whl (12 kB)

Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-tca9548a

Downloading sparkfun_qwiic_tca9548a-0.9.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (5.4 kB)

Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-proximity

Downloading sparkfun_qwiic_proximity-0.9.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (8.7 kB)

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement sparkfun-qwiic-ublox-gps (from sparkfun-qwiic) (from versions: none)

ERROR: No matching distribution found for sparkfun-qwiic-ublox-gps (from sparkfun-qwiic)

root@focal:~# pip3 install sparkfun-ublox-gps

Collecting sparkfun-ublox-gps

Downloading sparkfun_ublox_gps-1.0.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (2.2 kB)

Collecting ubxtranslator

Downloading ubxtranslator-0.1.1.tar.gz (20 kB)

Requirement already satisfied: pyserial in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from sparkfun-ublox-gps) (3.4)

Collecting spidev

Downloading spidev-3.5.tar.gz (10 kB)

Building wheels for collected packages: ubxtranslator, spidev

Building wheel for ubxtranslator (setup.py) … done

Created wheel for ubxtranslator: filename=ubxtranslator-0.1.1-py3-none-any.whl size=19953 sha256=c66873d896f78dc02f7889a03b01680f7b663cbcdc2a16ae1646ee2283e7f30a

Stored in directory: /root/.cache/pip/wheels/91/4d/de/c8fe79894e3139c952cf1b73796163779f7e87c20da5da3ac6

Building wheel for spidev (setup.py) … done

Created wheel for spidev: filename=spidev-3.5-cp38-cp38-linux_x86_64.whl size=44596 sha256=43ac65fe334307f94df01b66b0fcec5756cdad92480bc20e9e20c551139206b4

Stored in directory: /root/.cache/pip/wheels/97/5c/d8/280b1f544515539364cc56f7ff5ae3fbcba186f4f74649644f

Successfully built ubxtranslator spidev

Installing collected packages: ubxtranslator, spidev, sparkfun-ublox-gps

Successfully installed sparkfun-ublox-gps-1.0.0 spidev-3.5 ubxtranslator-0.1.1

root@focal:~# pip3 install sparkfun-qwiic

Collecting sparkfun-qwiic

Using cached sparkfun_qwiic-1.0.12-py2.py3-none-any.whl (208 kB)

Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-twist

Downloading sparkfun_qwiic_twist-0.9.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (6.6 kB)

Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-i2c

Using cached sparkfun_qwiic_i2c-0.9.11-py2.py3-none-any.whl (12 kB)

Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-micro-oled

Downloading sparkfun_qwiic_micro_oled-0.9.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (20 kB)

Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-vl53l1x

Downloading sparkfun_qwiic_vl53l1x-1.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (17 kB)

Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-relay

Downloading sparkfun_qwiic_relay-0.0.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl (5.7 kB)

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement sparkfun-qwiic-ublox-gps (from sparkfun-qwiic) (from versions: none)

ERROR: No matching distribution found for sparkfun-qwiic-ublox-gps (from sparkfun-qwiic)

Cheers,

-Joe

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Hello,

After asking internal teams it seems that one of our team members broke the installation path by accident. We are working on a fix. If the issue isn’t resolved in 2 business days please let me know.

Thank you for your time and patience.

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Thanks Brandon!

-Joe

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Our internal team members say that the paths should be fixed.

In addition, I was also advised that the UBlox GPS now uses serial instead of the Qwiic I2C system. Please account for this is in your setup.