bme280 0.1.0

Python Driver for the BME280 Temperature/Pressure/Humidity Sensor from Bosch.

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BME280 Python Driver
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Python Driver for the BME280 Temperature/Pressure/Humidity Sensor from Bosch.

* Free software: BSD license
* Documentation: https://bme280.readthedocs.org.

Full credit to https://github.com/IDCFChannel/bme280-meshblu-py for most of the logic, I simply packaged
/ tidied it.


Features
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* i2c reading of the bme280 Temperature/Pressure/Humidity sensor
* munin plugins for graphing the results


Installation (Package)
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For I2C access you must have the 'smbus' package available - for debian based systems install python-smbus.
If you wish to compile it, the packages required is smbus-cffi (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/smbus-cffi/)

Then:
pip install bme280


Usage
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Adafruit have a good run through of setting up their break out version of the bme280 at
https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-bme280-humidity-barometric-pressure-temperature-sensor-breakout/wiring-and-test

You will need to know the i2c address being used by the bme280, it is usually 0x76 or 0x77. You can use

i2cdetect -y 1

To verify which devices are connected.

Then:

$ read_bme280 --help

usage: read_bme280 [-h] [--pressure] [--humidity] [--temperature]
[--i2c-address I2C_ADDRESS] [--i2c-bus I2C_BUS]

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--pressure
--humidity
--temperature
--i2c-address I2C_ADDRESS
--i2c-bus I2C_BUS

Example:

$ read_bme280 --i2c-address 0x77

1017.58 hPa
50.55 ％
19.03 ℃

Munin
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Three plugins are available in the /munin folder. To use them link them into /etc/munin/plugins:

ln -s /path/to/bme280/munin* /etc/munin/plugins

You can configure the plugins by editing /etc/munin/plugin-conf.d/munin-node and adding:

[bme280_*]
group i2c
env.I2C_ADDRESS 0x77


You can test it with:

sudo munin-run bme280_humidity




History
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0.1.0 (2015-08-29)
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* First release on PyPI.