vl6180x-multi 1.0.1

Multiple VL6180X time of flight distance sensors on the same I2C bus.

Multiple VL6180X sensors on the same I2C bus

Introduction

This module allows operating several VL6180X Time Of Flight sensors on the same I2C bus. This is achieved by reallocating each sensor' address. The project is intended to run on RaspberryPi. Specifically, it was tested on RaspberryPi 4 with Python 3.7

Prerequisites

The example below is using Raspberry PI default I2C bus and two GPIOs to control two sensors:

Running the example

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://gitlab.com/vitus133/vl6180x_multi && cd vl6180x_multi

2. Create and activate Python virtual environment, install dependencies:

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Install the package

pip install -e .

4. Run the example

cd example/
python range.py