In BNO005.py line 241 , "if i2c is None:" should be "if i2c is not None:".

The default i2c busnum used by this library on the BeagleBone should be 2 as pins P9_19 (I2C2_SCL) and P9_20 (I2C2_SDA) are accessed via the device /dev/i2c-2.

Please see this Adafruit forum issue for more information:
Error when trying to run BNO055 simpletest.py

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In _write_bytes() in BNO055.py, the response from the serial send function is being checked regardless of whether ack was set to True. Might be the source of some register write error exceptions!

Since you can talk to the IMU via a serial connection, I have successfully used it on OSX. Mabe Windoze will work too? However your setup file requires Adafruit-GPIO which won't install on OSX because of spidev looking for linux header files. Is there a way to conditionally change this (or maybe Adafruit-GPIO ) so BNO055 package will install on OSX? It would be nice to stay up to date via pip rather than me manually checking for updates to this package.

Hi,

I just followed the instruction and installed the BNO055 Python Module on Raspberry Pi Zero. However, when I tried to run the simpletest.py, it showed "RuntimeError: Register read error: 0x6e06". It seems that it tried to read data from a non-existing register. If I keep running the simpletest.py several times, it may work a few seconds and then show another "Register read error" again.

Could you please tell me whether there is anything I can do to solve this problem?

Thanks a lot.

Could you help me in how can I modifify the sympletest.py in order to print the Temperature of the sensor and Linear acceleration reading for the X, Y, Z axis (in meters per second squared). Thank you in advance. Daniel