SHTC3 sensor won't stay awake through a soft reset of ESP32-S2

[laurastephsmith]

There has been a fix for the SHTC3 not coping with a soft reset: adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_SHTC3#3. But this problem persists on the ESP32-S2 (I'm using a FeatherS2). The code below works fine on a Feather M0 Express.

My code:

import busio
import time

import adafruit_shtc3

i2c = busio.I2C(board.SCL, board.SDA)
sht = adafruit_shtc3.SHTC3(i2c)
while True:
    print(sht.temperature)
    time.sleep(1)

Running on this Feather:

>>> print(os.uname())
(sysname='esp32s2', nodename='esp32s2', release='6.1.0', version='6.1.0-beta.2
    on 2020-12-03', machine='FeatherS2 with ESP32S2')

Outputs this:

25.48
25.52
25.57

I press ctrl+s and it then outputs:

Code done running. Waiting for reload.
soft reboot

Auto-reload is on. Simply save files over USB to run them or enter REPL to disable.
code.py output:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "code.py", line 8, in <module>
  File "adafruit_shtc3.py", line 89, in __init__
ValueError: No I2C device at address: 70

[Cybot101]

Hi, saw your comments on my PR, so just dropping in my 2 cents.

Does it behave differently with another I2C device?
When I was testing originally on SAMD21 I through I noticed different behaviour between busio.I2C and board.I2C - not properly closing/opening the I2C bus after soft reset. Could this be similar?

I don't have an S2 to test with unfortunately :(

[laurastephsmith]

Hi. That's a really good point, I haven't tried another I2C device on it yet. I'll give it a go and get back to you!

[jepler]

This appears to be another problem due to adafruit_bus_device-in-core. The pure Python version first tries a zero byte write to probe for the presence of a device at an address, though if that is not possible (when is it not possible?) it also tries a 1-byte read:

        try:
            self.i2c.writeto(self.device_address, b"")
        except OSError:
            # some OS's dont like writing an empty bytesting...
            # Retry by reading a byte
            try:
                result = bytearray(1)
                self.i2c.readfrom_into(self.device_address, result)
            except OSError:
                raise ValueError("No I2C device at address: %x" % self.device_address)

The core version only tries the 1-byte read, and the SHTC3 doesn't like it:

    uint8_t status = common_hal_adafruit_bus_device_i2cdevice_readinto(self, (uint8_t*)bufinfo.buf, 1);
    if (status != 0) {
        common_hal_adafruit_bus_device_i2cdevice_unlock(self);
        mp_raise_ValueError_varg(translate("No I2C device at address: %x"), self->device_address);

[tannewt]

In the core, we should use the probe function in the common hal.

[jepler]

@laurastephsmith Please re-test and let us know if this is still a problem for you. We believe it was fixed by #3936.