Remote located imu

[christin]

I have my Pypilot installed in my under my console table in cockpit. It is a built in console with wires and cables. Pypilot works ok most of the time except if I set something like a phone on the tabletop to close to the Pypilot head. I like the location since it is protected from water but I can lift the table top up to access the pi. I would like to know what would be needed to move the imu to a remote location away from wire and metal. I would be locating it about 6 feet away. I have a Pypilot from Sean.

[abrax5]

According to this post 6 feet might be working for the I2C bus:
https://electronics.stackexchange.com/qu...bus-length

In Andreas' guide he uses a I2C extender chip:
https://github.com/AndreasW29/pypilot-ti...ircuit.pdf
https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/p82b715.pdf

With that, you would be able to extend the cable further.

[PaddyB]

I did this which seems to have worked. https://forum.openmarine.net/showthread....4#pid25584