I am trying to read the acceleration data in the X, Y and Z axes from the LIS2DE12 accelerometer which is connected to an I2C-to-USB adapter, it is UMFT201XB.
I am using a virtual machine in VirtualBox whose operating system is a lubuntu 20.04.5 LTS. I was planning to read it directly from the linux terminal without using any kind of C program as I found on this website but /sys/bus/iio... directories do not exist for me. I have also read in other posts like this where the user @Ashutosh said that the UMFT201XB adapter has the FT201X chipset so it only has I2C slave functionality and since the accelerometer is another slave, you can't initialize the communication.
In VirtualBox, the USB device is being detected as when I run the dmesg I get the following output:
$ dmesg usb 1-1: new full-speed USB device number 6 using ohci-pci usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0403, idProduct=6015, bcdDevice=10.00 usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 usb 1-1: Product: UMFT201XB usb 1-1: Manufacturer: FTDI usb 1-1: SerialNumber: FT5BIUOL ftdi_sio 1-1:1.0: FTDI USB Serial Device converter detected usb 1-1: Detected FT-X usb 1-1: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB0 This way I know it's in located in /dev/ttyUSB0 but I've been trying tools like screen or stty but I don't get any results. Neither when using cat or tail to read the output.
EDIT 1
After some research i found this entrance on FT201X datasheet:
Please note that the FT200XD and FT201X are I2C slave devices only and should be interfaced to an I2C host (often in a microcontroller or FPGA). If an I2C master is required, please see the FT232H, FT2232H, FT4232H and FT2232D devices.
So I decided to look for devices with those chipsets. They all have MPSSE interface so I don't really know where the SDA and SCL pins are but, I managed to find a picture of UM232H device which indicated where these pins are, SDA being a short between AD1 and AD2 and, SCL being the AD0 pin. So, my question now is a bit different... before I buy anything is this device good for the application I want to do?
