/bme280-python

Python library for the BME280 temperature, pressure and humidity sensor

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BME280 Temperature, Pressure, & Humidity Sensor

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Suitable for measuring ambient temperature, barometric pressure, and humidity, the BME280 is a great indoor environmental sensor.

Pre-requisites

You must enable:

  • i2c: sudo raspi-config nonint do_i2c 0

You can optionally run sudo raspi-config or the graphical Raspberry Pi Configuration UI to enable interfaces.

Installing

Stable library from PyPi, the smbus library is also needed:

  • Just run sudo pip install pimoroni-bme280 smbus

Latest/development library from GitHub:

  • git clone https://github.com/pimoroni/bme280-python
  • cd bme280-python
  • sudo ./install.sh