Grove Gesture sensor not detected in pi

Hello,

ich bought the grove gesture sensor and connected it without the grove base hat directly to the raspberry pi gpio pins according to this https://github.com/eouia/MMM-GroveGestures. My problem is, that the raspberry pi does not even detect an i2c connection. I enabled i2c in the rapsberry pi config. With the help if i2c tools I check for the correct connection but the matrix tells me that nothing is connected.

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00: – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- –
10: – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – --
20: – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – --
30: – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – --
40: – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – --
50: – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – --
60: – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – --
70: – -- – -- – -- – --

I have no clue what the problem might be. Is it maybe necessary to use the grove base hat? Maybe the sensor is broken? Is there a way to check this?
Everything like processing code which uses the sensor does not work, of course.

Kind regards,
Thomas

Ok, I found the solution. I had to activate i2c on my raspi first.

sudo modprobe i2c-bcm2708 baudrate=100000
sudo modprobe i2c-dev

made it.

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