Interfacing with XSens - Githubissues

MT Software Suite can be obtained from https://www.xsens.com/mt-software-suite/

If the IMU is recognized via USB, you should read this after lsusb Bus 002 Device 006: ID 0403:d38b Future Technology Devices International, Ltd
In the directory MT_Software_Suite_Linux_4.3 you want to run mtsdk_linux_4.3.sh which is the MT SDK.
If you run into this error message

'realpath' could not be found. It is usually installed with the 'realpath' package
'uudecode' could not be found. It is usually installed with the 'sharutils' package

Simply do:

sudo apt-get install realpath && sudo apt-get install sharutils

If you want to install in the default directory /usr/local just hit Enter when it asks to Enter the installation directory. Afterwards you will find in this directory all the libraries, headers and examples necessary for you to start collecting data straight from the sensor.
The first example you wanna try is in /usr/local/xsens/examples/mtsdk/src_cpp. To compile do: make src_cpp. Enter src_cpp cd src_cpp and run ./example
If it recognizes the device but it can't access the device do the following as found in README.MTSDK

The device is recognized, but I cannot ever access the device -

    Make sure you are in the correct group (often dialout or uucp) in order to
    access the device. You can test this with

        $ ls -l /dev/ttyUSB0
        crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 188, 0 May  6 16:21 /dev/ttyUSB0
        $ groups
        dialout audio video usb users plugdev

    If you aren't in the correct group, you can fix this in two ways.

    1. Add yourself to the correct group
        You can add yourself to it by using your distributions user management
        tool, or call

            $ sudo usermod -G dialout -a $USER

        Be sure to replace dialout with the actual group name if it is
        different. After adding yourself to the group, either relogin to your
        user, or call

            $ newgrp dialout

        to add the current terminal session to the group.

It is strongly recommended to log out and back in after these changes for them to take effect

The output of the example module will look like this: W:-0.72,X: 0.22,Y:-93.12,Z: 0.00,Roll: -82.13,Pitch: 90.00,Yaw: -89.80^C0.00,Yaw: -90.000w: 90.00: -90.000

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