Can I use a creality adxl345 accelerometer for my DIY ratrig 4?

I am trying to use this creality accelerometer to measure resonance frequency on my ratrig4. It has a USB C out that I adapted to USB A to connect to my Rpi/mcu(octopus 1.1) but I don't know where to go from there. What settings do i need to change/add on my config file so that the mcu or rpi can detect it. Right no i get an error when i try to check using accelerometer_query. tia
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chicken
chicken3mo ago
Are you using a toolboard with the printer? If so I think all of them have a built in ADXL. The standard VC4 included a BTT EBB42 toolboard that has it included
jb02877
jb02877OP3mo ago
i dont have a toolboard
TheTik
TheTik3mo ago
Ah, when you said VC4, we thought you meant following the plan
chicken
chicken3mo ago
you are building a v-core 4 without a toolboard?
jb02877
jb02877OP3mo ago
not at the moment
chicken
chicken3mo ago
I am confused then.... your post title says use a creality adxl for a diy ratrig 4.
jb02877
jb02877OP3mo ago
i want to connect it to the pi or mcu directly not the toolboard
elpoepel
elpoepel3mo ago
Connect it to your pi, login into the pi with User pi password raspberry. Execute command ls /dev/serial/by-id/* You get your mcu and the adxl in return Add the adxl in your printer.cfg Example
[mcu] serial: /dev/serial/by-id/adxl
jb02877
jb02877OP3mo ago
thanks!
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