QMC5883L with Revo. Wrong magnetometer?
« on: February 20, 2018, 04:10:30 pm »
hi, i've got my magnetometer today and it was labeled as a HMC5883L. but i found the same one on other sites where other people say its actually a QMC5883L, so it seems like i have a QMC5883L. Other sites say its the same magnetometer just made by a chinese factory and that the adress is different.

Is it possible to get a QMC5883L working? the one i got didn't work. I have lent the one from my friend, it has a label with HMC5883L on it and it worked pretty good.

f5soh

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Re: QMC5883L with Revo. Wrong magnetometer?
« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2018, 04:24:07 pm »
Cloned QMC5883 version is not compatible with HMC5883, need codes changes, not only the I2C address.
http://wiki.epalsite.com/index.php?title=HMC5883L_Electronic_Compass
http://wiki.epalsite.com/index.php?title=QMC5883L_Electronic_Compass

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Re: QMC5883L with Revo. Wrong magnetometer?
« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2018, 08:21:53 pm »
Hi アイラ,
I have just ordered one of those new GPS/MAG units with QMC5883L from banggood. I can add support for it as soon as I get it.

Re: QMC5883L with Revo. Wrong magnetometer?
« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2018, 08:24:55 pm »
Do you think it can be automatically detected?

Re: QMC5883L with Revo. Wrong magnetometer?
« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2018, 09:03:16 pm »
Well mine did not work, so i think i will order a new one, propably from china, because now its too cold to fly anyways, so i could wait.

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Re: QMC5883L with Revo. Wrong magnetometer?
« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2018, 09:40:55 pm »
Do you think it can be automatically detected?

Most definitely. Pity though that they choose the chip-id register to have value 0xff  :o

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Re: QMC5883L with Revo. Wrong magnetometer?
« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2018, 04:03:58 pm »
Hi アイラ,
I have just ordered one of those new GPS/MAG units with QMC5883L from banggood. I can add support for it as soon as I get it.

I used GY-511 from Banggood, there works fine.

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Re: QMC5883L with Revo. Wrong magnetometer?
« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2018, 06:27:39 pm »
I used GY-511 from Banggood, there works fine.
How did you know that this module is supported? Is there some documentation about supported modules or chips?