m-laniakea/st_spin

A Python library for interfacing with ST Spin Family devices, specifically the ST Micro L6470, L6472, L6474, and L6480 ICs.

st_spin's Issues

SpinValue issue

Hi I am looking to utilize some steppers with these particular L6470 drivers. I want to use python and this code was going to make that easy. I am having issues though. For whatever reason I am getting this error while using your code.

Might you know why or how to fix it?

Thank you

Issue running basic commands

Hi! When running the basic commands you have listed in the readme I have run into an issue I can't seem to figure out. When I compile and run the code I receive an error when calling the move function. The error states: TypeError: unsupported operand types(s) for |: 'int' and 'SpinValue'.

I'm fairly new to python so I'm sorry if it's a dumb error!

Missing License

Please add License to this repo. My suggestion is to use MIT-licence (a common choice for this type of projects).
https://docs.github.com/en/communities/setting-up-your-project-for-healthy-contributions/adding-a-license-to-a-repository

This is a great implementation of the base functions needed to use the L6470 stepper driver (and related). Great job!
I would like to continue the development by implementing higher level commands, and submit this back to Your repo. But to do this I need to know that it is released with a compatible open source license. I have use for this library in work for a client (to use in their research lab).

Conection between Raspberry 4b and RoboFun L6470 board

Can you tell me how to connect GPIO with this board?
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1564532401.html
Thank you.

README.md fails with several errors

Something is really wrong. The README.md sample code fails with several errors. I worked around all of those, then I hit the same error as another user:
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/stspin/spin_device.py", line 135, in move
self._writeCommand(Command.Move | self._direction, steps, PayloadSize)
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for |: 'int' and 'SpinValue'

Command.Move, an integer, can't be "|" with an object "self._direction". So I then looked at the typedef branch and see you changed the code around:

command = (Command.Move | self._direction).setPayload(steps)
self._writeCommand(command)

Is there a missing commit to the dev branch? You code is amazing and I would really like to use is for my project. Any insights would be greatly appreciated.