Rust VEML6030 High Accuracy Ambient Light Sensor Driver

This is a platform agnostic Rust driver for the VEML6030 high accuracy ambient light sensor using the embedded-hal traits.

This driver allows you to:

Enable/disable the device. See: enable().
Read the measured lux value. See: read_lux().
Read the white channel measurement. See: read_white().
Read the measured ALS value in raw format. See: read_raw().
Calculate the compensated lux for a raw ALS value. See: convert_raw_als_to_lux().
Set the gain. See: set_gain().
Set the integration time. See: set_integration_time().
Set the fault count. See: set_fault_count().
Enable/disable and configure power saving mode. See: enable_power_saving().
Enable/disable interrupts. See: enable_interrupts().
Read the interrupt status. See: read_interrupt_status().
Set the high/low thresholds in lux or raw. See: set_high_threshold_lux().
Calculate the compensated raw threshold value ahead of time. See: calculate_raw_threshold_value().

Introductory blog post

The device

Vishay's VEML6030 is a high accuracy ambient light digital 16-bit resolution sensor in a miniature transparent 2mm x 2mm package. It includes a high sensitive photodiode, a low noise amplifier, a 16-bit A/D converter and supports an easy to use I2C bus communication interface and additional interrupt feature. The ambient light result is as digital value available.

Datasheet:

VEML6030

Application Note:

Designing the VEML6030 into an application

Usage

To use this driver, import this crate and an embedded_hal implementation, then instantiate the device.

Please find additional examples using hardware in this repository: driver-examples

extern crate linux_embedded_hal as hal;
extern crate veml6030;
use veml6030::{SlaveAddr, Veml6030};

fn main() {
    let dev = hal::I2cdev::new("/dev/i2c-1").unwrap();
    let address = SlaveAddr::default();
    let mut sensor = Veml6030::new(dev, address);
    sensor.enable().unwrap();
    loop {
        let lux = sensor.read_lux().unwrap();
        println!("lux: {:2}", lux);
    }
}

Support

For questions, issues, feature requests, and other changes, please file an issue in the github project.

License

Licensed under either of

Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contributing

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

veml6030 0.1.0