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interfaces:bme280 [2016/09/28 15:53] – [BME280 multi-purpose sensor] darroninterfaces:bme280 [2016/10/02 04:10] (current) – [Raspberry Pi] darron
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 This multi-purpose sensor is used to measure temperature, relative humidity and barometric pressure. This multi-purpose sensor is used to measure temperature, relative humidity and barometric pressure.
 +It operates as an I2C slave device.
  
-It operates as an I2C slave and is available from China on a miniature board with the I2C connections +The actual sensor is tiny but a board is available from China with the I2C connections 
-and power on a standard 0.1 inch header.+and power on a standard 0.1 inch header which makes it easily accessible.
  
 === Raspberry Pi === === Raspberry Pi ===
  
-The device uses I2C to communicate with a host master and with the Pi, the topmost +The device uses I2C to communicate with a host master and with the Pi, four 
-pins on the GPIO header are utilised.+pins on the GPIO header are utilised to achieve this.
  
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 GND 09       . GND 09       .
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-    /        / 
-    .        . 
-    +--------+ 
          
-Relevant I2C pins shown, others omitted.+Relevant pins for I2C communications shown, others omitted.
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 +With the miniature board (purple device in photo), the four wires hook up the BME280 to the Pi. Two wires are for power and two for communications. Power is supplied from the Pi 3V3 pin which is connected to the board's Vin pin. For safety you may wire the board with the Pi disconnected from it's power source and only power it up when satisfied the wiring is correct.
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 +Install [[projects:telegraph|Telegraph]] and use it's BME280 demo for PHP and the apache2 web server to create and display graphs of the sensor (see the three graphs on this page).
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 +Within the [[projects:telegraph|Telegraph]] directory you will find the `demo' directory and within
 +that `bme280'. Two further directories exist, the `etc' directory demonstrates how to set up telegraph to poll the BME280 device and store the results in a database. The `htdocs' directory contains files which you can be served by the apache2 web server to display images like the examples on this web page.