Hi everyone, I have a pi zero that I am connecting to a Pimoroni drum hat, and I need it to communicate over I2C. I followed the steps here but when I run sudo i2cdetect -y 1 the grid is filled with dashes and there is no I2C device detected. I used a multimeter to check the connection from the…

Hi! Just to cover all the bases, you’ve soldered the header onto the Pi Zero? Could you also try running curl https://get.pimoroni.com/i2c | bash in the terminal, please?

I do have it soldered, but I think that is my issue. It seems that one of the pins is soldered fine to the hat, but not to the pi. When I continuity tested, I put the multimeter on the pi’s header (not on the pi itself), which would explain why it was continuous and I thought it was ok. I am going …

I2C device not detected on pi

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robotgirl July 9, 2017, 5:14pm 4

Resoldering worked, and I2C is detected! Now I’m just having difficulties with the drum hat, see this thread.

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I2C device not detected on pi

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