mindsensors.com Light Sensor Array (LightSensorArray)

General

This sensor uses the msensor device class.

	Value
type_id	157
# Modes	2
Connection	I2C/M
Vendor ID	mndsnsrs
Product ID	LSArray

Modes

	Mode 0	Mode 1
mode	MS-LSA-CAL	MS-LSA-RAW
Description	Calibrated values	Raw values
num_values	8	8
value0	LED 0	LED 0
Min	0	0
Max	100	???
value1	LED 1	LED 1
value2	LED 2	LED 2
value3	LED 3	LED 3
value4	LED 4	LED 4
value5	LED 5	LED 5
value6	LED 6	LED 6
value7	LED 7	LED 7
units	pct (percent)	none
dp (decimal places)	0	0

Values in the tables that look like ```this``` are the names of sysfs attributes or values returned by said attributes.

Commands

Commands are performed by writing the ASCII character value to register 0x41

Value	Description
W	Calibrate to white
B	Calibrate to black
D	Put sensor to sleep (must disable polling or it will immediately wake because of being polled)
P	Wake up sensor (will return error if the sensor is sleeping)
A	Configure for American region (60 Hz electrical mains)
E	Configure for African/Asian/European region (50 Hz electrical mains)
U	Configure for universal frequency (default)

Example:

$ echo -n -e "\x0x41W" > bin_data # calibrate white