Questions tagged [sensor]
For questions dealing with devices that measure the physical world around us and translate it into signals for the Raspberry Pi.
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Troubleshooting Temp/RH Sensor with RPi
I am working off of a Raspberry Pi 4B. I have recently connected this temperature/RH sensor, but I am having trouble to with the python code. This is the datasheet for the sensor (Pg. 11-18 are most ...
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How to get temperature and humidity data from a Sensiron SHT3X
The more I read, the more confused I become...
I have a SHT30 Temperature And Humidity Sensor. I bought it from Adafroot some time ago, but never found a real use for it. Now that Raspberry Pi has ...
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Need advice building python code to read Temperature/RH sensor on RPi
I am currently working with a Raspberry Pi 4B. I have an i2c shield connected to the PI and then my temp/RH sensor connected directly to that. The sensor is here and datasheet - where pgs 11-18 have ...
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AS5600 encoder is not reading on Raspberry Pi 4
I'm trying to read the stepper motor angle using the AS5600 magnetic position encoder.
I'm using Raspberry Pi 4 and the pinout is the following:
VCC to 3.3V , GND to Ground ,SDA to GPIO2 (Pin 3) , SCL ...
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Pico W I2C timeout occurs when using multiple sensors on a single bus
I am using to VL53 lidar sensor chips on a single I2C bus.
This specific chip does not have an option to change I2C address through hardware and so I must do it through software. This works and I am ...
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Looking to set up Media Signage
I'm Looking to set a multi screen system in my place of work. We will have roughly 6 monitors throughout our showroom displaying different adverts/price guides on rotation.
We have heard about using ...
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Connecting an analog level sensor
First time poster here. I'm okay with the programming side but have some issue with the electronics side
I have raspberry pi 4 and wish to connect a submersible water level sensor to it. The sensor ...
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Raspberry Pi Zero detecting too many i2c
After this command in raspberry pi
i2cdetect -y 1
Its detects too many i2cs
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Raspberry Pi hardware ( water Pump + soil moisture)
I have a water pump for Raspberry Pi (https://thepihut.com/products/amphibious-horizontal-submersible-pump) that I want to use.
Do I need a relay module for this water pump to make it work with ...
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Hooking up a rotary encoder to raspberry pi 4
There are a ton of questions on this, and I'm pretty new at working with rotary encoders. I purchased this one Taiss E38S6-600-24G, thinking (incorrectly I might add) that it would be a simple thing ...
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Did i fry MH-Z19B CO2 sensor with my raspberry PI?
I got a new MH-Z19 Sensor, which i connected to my raspberry PI. The first time everything was okay, but later i connected the pins wrong by moving everything by one pin to the left. See the table
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BME280 sensor: OSError [Errno 5]
I recently bought a Raspberry Pi 4B along with a BME280 T/P/humidity sensor. I use the bme280 and smbus2 Python libraries to interface with the sensor. For a while it worked pretty well, but yesterday ...
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pymodus unknown message
I am using Pymodbus in Raspberry Pi for data acquisition from Modbus rtu (RS485) sensors. Other sensors worked perfectly fine so coding is ok.
However one particular sensors is giving me this message ...
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remote sensors for soil moisture
I just received my first Raspberry Pi (Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+) and was thinking about starting my project journey with setting up some kind of soil moisture monitoring for the plants in my appartment ...
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Optical Encoder with GPIOZERO
I am trying to help some 8th graders build a robot. They learned about the Raspberry Pi and Python with GPIOZERO in an earlier class.
They have wheels spinning using the Motor class from GPIOZERO and ...
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