Problem with AMG8833 Thermal Camera Sensor

[mhmuss]

Hi!

I am making a project using the Adafruit AMG8833 Thermal Camera Sensor. I set up the wiring according to the Adafruit instructions (I tried using A4 and A5 for I2C communication as well):

I was having trouble with the sensor so I tried running the example test codes from the Adafruit library and I'm still having the same problem.

It prints:
"AMGxx test
Could not find a vaid AMG88xx sensor, check wiring!

Here is the code:

#include <Wire.h>
#include <Adafruit_AMG88xx.h>

Adafruit_AMG88xx amg;

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(9600);
  Serial.println(F("AMG88xx test"));

  bool status;

  // default settings
  status = amg.begin();
  if (!status) {
    Serial.println("Could not find a valid AMG88xx sensor, check wiring!");
    while (1);
  }

  Serial.println("-- Thermistor Test --");

  Serial.println();

  delay(100); // let sensor boot up
}


void loop() {
  Serial.print("Thermistor Temperature = ");
  Serial.print(amg.readThermistor());
  Serial.println(" *C");

  Serial.println();

  //delay a second
  delay(1000);
}

Again, this is the example code from Adafruit and using the wiring from Adafruit so i'm not sure what the problem is.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks!

[DaveEvans]

Which Arduino are you using? Post a well-focused and close up photo of your system. Try an I2C address scanner. I had good luck with the SparkFun library for that sensor; maybe give that a try, too.