I see you have posted this in 2014 but I am having the same trouble. Did you find the answer to the problem?
On Saturday, 29 November 2014 10:44:26 UTC, JJ wrote: > > Hello > > I need help with reading the MLX90614 ir sensor... When I attach it to BBB > and run sudo i2cdetect -y -r 1, it slowly looks for i2c addresses and dmesg > says "controller timed out" every time. > > The problem seems to be in the MLX90614 communication, because if I plug > it out, i2cdetect finds other sensors attached to BBB just fine and rapidly > without errors. > I find out that Raspberry Pi has had similar problems and that linux > kernel version 3.17 does have support for the sensor. > > http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/iio/temperature/mlx90614.c > http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=362243 > > But how to get this sensor working with Beaglebone Black? My distro is > debian, and the kernel is 3.8.13-bone67. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
