I recently purchased an Oak-D lite from Amazon [link here] very recently (13th Oct 2023). And I seem to be facing the same issues as these discussions

whereby I get:

RuntimeError: IMU(4) - IMU invalid settings!: IMU not detected. Your board doesn't have IMU or requires firmware update (Set imu.enableFirmwareUpdate(True) explicitly.). 1, 321

when trying to access the IMU through code examples. Signalling that the IMU is without the BMI270 IMU chip. I understand from this page, that the early batches of Oak D cameras were without an IMU. But this was over 1 year ago…

Running:

import depthai as dai
with dai.Device() as device:
    print(device.getMxId())

Gives me: 1844301041537C0F00

I opened up the device to see whether the IMU chip is even there and it is not:

I intend to return the device and repurchase one with an IMU. My question is should I purchase the Oak-D lite directly from the Luxonis store to guarantee I get the version with IMU? I purchased from Amazon because I thought I was going to be getting the latest batch…

Thanks

    Hi chutsu
    Write to support@luxonis.com and attach this thread. I think we can make sure you get the IMU version. You will have to explicitly ask though.

    Thanks,
    Jaka

      Ok thanks, I'll try that route.

      3 months later

      [unknown] Email support ^

      Hi [unknown]
      More info:
      Oak-D-Lite AF batches should all include IMU. In case you are looking for a FF variant, there is a (very) small chance of getting the IMU-less version. You probably don't have to worry about it.

      Thanks,
      Jaka