I got finally my 9$ chip boards. Fortunately this boards comes with LiPo battery connector and charging IC (named axp209). One can query this chip's i2c subsystem by i2cget/ic2set commands to get the data about system's battery status like:
- Battery voltage
- Charging current
- Battery connected
- Battery charging
- etc
NTC provides a shell script that fetches above data. But running this script in daemon mode and collecting data from multiple chips (which are in network) would put strain on CPU/battery resources of chip as this script executes almost 50 unix processes for getting 10 sensor values and it also might drain battery (when main power goes off AND monitoring scripts should not drain resources).
As I am going to monitor system using other python scripts as well, I started porting the axp209 script to python script using i2c-tools/py-smbus module. But this porting does not work in python as smbus python-module does not provide forceful read/write of i2c-device addresses (for safe reasons).
Similar options were provided in command line tools of i2c-tools (like i2cget, i2cset, etc). So I have hacked i2c-modules/py-smbus code and changed/added 3 lines to get similar forceful opening in smbus module of python.
Changed i2c-tools/py-smbus code is at github
Using the above modified smbus module, I wrote python script that collects 9$ chip data in daemon mode. Source code is at github
This changed i2c-tools/py-smbus code can be used for raspberry pi as well (one has to change i2c-bus and device addresses accordingly)
Warning: Developer should be aware that forceful read/write of i2c devices can lead to dangerous consequences (if done unknowingly/inappropriately/etc). So developer is responsible for using this changed code :)
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