VL53L5CX CTypes Python Wrapper

CTypes wrapper for the Sitronix VL53L5CX Ultra-light Driver- C source mirror can be found at https://github.com/ST-mirror/VL53L5CX_ULD_driver/tree/lite/en

Prerequisites

You must enable:

• i2c sudo raspi-config nonint do_i2c 0

If you're not using any i2c devices for which 400KHz is out of range (trackball), you might also want to increase your i2c baud rate.

VL53L5CX requires a firmware upload on startup, and it's slow. Add a baudrate to the i2c line in /boot/config.txt to speed it up:

dtparam=i2c_arm=on,i2c_arm_baudrate=400000

Note: The default baudrate is 200000 (200KHz) and a typical maximum for most devices is 400000 (400KHz), but you can also use 1000000 (1MHz) if you're just driving VL53L5CX sensors.

Installing

• Just run pip3 install vl53l5cx-ctypes

In some cases you may need to use sudo or install pip with: sudo apt install python3-pip

Latest/development library from GitHub:

• `git clone https://github.com/pimoroni/vl53l5cx-python
• cd vl53l5cx-python/library
• python3 setup.py install --user

Changelog

0.0.3

• Rename to vl53l5cx_ctypes to better reflect the differences between this and the pure Python VL53L5CX driver
• Change package name to avoid conflicts with Python VL53L5CX driver

0.0.2

• Fix segfault bug in is_alive

0.0.1

• Initial Release