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Offset registers always read 0

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
52/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
c
Domain
embedded-iot

Research direction

Start in Firmware/SFE/Src/main.cpp at updatePoseFromHostShadow(), especially the allRegsWritten check. Trace how register contents are handled there and confirm the offset registers are populated after the check. Done means the offset registers no longer read as 0 when all registers have been written.

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Description

The root problem is updatePoseFromHostShadow() does not set register contents. That should be done after checking if allRegsWritten is true.

Dominant language
C
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Forks
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