BMX160 reading accuracy

[Calvin111]

Hi

I’m currently using a BMX160 shuttle board on an esp8266 microcontroller, however the readings I am obtaining as an output from the bmx are only whole numbers, no decimals
E.g 10 instead of 9.81. Does this have something to do with the library I am using, or is the BMX160 sensor not capable of high accuracy values?

[BSTRobin]

Hello Calvin111,

It seems to have something to do with the data conversion on your MCU platform.

[Calvin111]

To how many decimal places can then sensor be accurate to then?

[BSTRobin]

Hello Calvin111,

For accelerometer of BMX160, output data format is LSB/g. It is not floating point number, so without decimal places.

For example of 8G range, it could be convert to (x/4096.0)g、(y/4096.0)g、(z/4096.0)g.

[Calvin111]

Hi

So just to confirm then, the bmx160 sensor is only capeable of returning whole numbers (integers)?

Or is it capable of returning floats aswell?