[Tinkerphones] Fun with BME280 inside GTA04A5

[H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Hi,

> Am 19.09.2017 um 08:01 schrieb Andreas Kemnade <andreas at kemnade.info>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 16 Sep 2017 21:57:32 +0200
> "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns at goldelico.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> since we a re a tinkerphones community, I just had
>> some fun with the GTA04A5 I want to share :)
>> 
>> Maybe you know that there is a BME280 inside. It
>> is a combined barometer, thermometer, hygrometer
>> sensor chip.
>> 
>> And it has full Letux kernel support so that it
>> works out of the box.
>> 
> Well, to produce nice input there still needs to be some logic,
> Probably some power management logic. like suspend for some minutes to let the
> gta04 cool down and read then the sensor directly after suspend.

That is easy:

./measure-suspend 300; cat /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:device5/in_humidityrelative_input

Or integrate it into a new script that does similar things as ./measure-suspend
for suspend + wakeup by RTC.

> 
> So the question is: does the hygrometer produce sane output when the gta04 case
> is closed?

Yes, that would be nice if someone could find out.

> 
>> It was simple to do some readout:
>> 
>> 	cat /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:device5/in_humidityrelative_input
>> 
>> Here is the full sequence when breathing upon
>> the sensor (of a board not installed in the case):
>> 
>> root at letux:~# while true; do cat /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:device5/in_humidityrelative_input; sleep 1; done
>> 35.765625000
> root at letux:/sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:device1# cat in_temp_input
> 39100
> root at letux:/sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:device1# cat in_humidityrelative_input
> 78.563476562
> 
> Hmm, that does not make sense. 78% at 39 C. It was not in
> my pocket. It is in a train. So why it is so humid?

Hm. Maybe the sensor needs calibration? More likely it is too much
influenced by the device temperature.

Maybe printing temperature and humidity in a loop right after booting
shows some drift/correlation?

> 
>> Does this trigger new ideas for user interfaces?
>> 
> humidity + pressure + temperature is nice for weather forecasts if
> that are outdoor values. You can calculate the dewpoint.
> The dewpoint is a good estimation of the temperature the next morning.
> So you are not surprised too much if it becomes cold.
> You can also estimate the lower cloud base with that.

Nice ideas!

> 
> That is the reason why I have a hih6130-family device with some flow of air
> attached to my bicycle.

BR,
Nikolaus

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 801 bytes
Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
URL: <http://lists.goldelico.com/pipermail/community/attachments/20170919/6ae75a08/attachment.asc>