@Dana-Myers114 That would be nice, thanks !
Is it not possible to do bit banging using python ? This is what is done on the RPi in the adafruit tutorial link I gave. It doesn't seem a very clean way to do it, but it works pretty well on the RPi.

Is it possible to user other GPIO pins to bit bang the SPI protocol ?

@Richard-Berg said in Using a MCP3008 via SPI:

Read this thread HERE

Oh ok, thanks.

Everytime I try to use my omega 2 for something, I first need to wait for a fimware update.
Guess I'll have to build my own LEDE or something... Too bad, I needed the wifi

Hi,
Last week I connected a MCP3008 ADC to my omega2 via the SPI pins.
I thought I could read data but it was in fact rubbish.

Reading a tutorial on adafruit (https://learn.adafruit.com/reading-a-analog-in-and-controlling-audio-volume-with-the-raspberry-pi/script) and the mcp documentation (http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/21295d.pdf), it seems the read procedure is simple : I just have to send a 4 bit word (1100) to ask for a reading on channel 0, and the MCP returns 10 bits.
However, using the python lib I have to give a one byte address during the read, which I assume would be the command word 1100 with a 0 padding, so 11000000. The value I read next is quite inconsistent, even with a fixed input voltage.

Has anyone any clue of what I am doing wrong ?

Thanks

@ccs-hello
I have the same issues with two different voltage regulators.
I bought a first one which delivers ~3.1V, which I recon might not be enough.
I made another one using a LMS1117 which delivers a very nice 3.3V from a USB charger. It says it handles 1A, and the USB charger can deliver up to 1.2A.

The worst part is that sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.
I did not connect anything else on the charger so the Omega2 should be able to draw whatever it needs.

@Brice-Parent I don't need it, I'm using the SPI to communicate with a very simple MCP3008

@Brice-Parent
Indeed, my only mistake was to swap the arguments.
I did not have the spi-tools package installed but I'm not sure it is really necessary.

My code seems to work now.
Thank you very much !

@WereCatf It does show up, but when I use it with the python library as described here : https://docs.onion.io/omega2-docs/spi-python-module.html
I get that error.

My code is pretty simple :

import onionSpi

spi = onionSpi.OnionSpi(32766, 1)
spi.sck = 7
spi.mosi = 8
spi.miso = 9
spi.cs = 6
spi.registerDevice()
spi.setupDevice()

I got the 32766, 1 part from the /dev/spi32766.1 file name

@Brice-Parent What did you install to make it work on the omega2?
I followed the documentation but I get an error while registering the spi device : "Failed to find spi-gpio-custom. Maybe it is a built in module ?"

I've had the same issue in the latest firmware
Has anyone managed to make it work ?