I have been working on a Netduino I2C driver for the Silicon Labs Si7005 Digital I2C Humidity & Temperature Sensor for weather station and building monitoring applications as it looks like a reasonably priced device which is not to complex to interface with.I’m using a SeeedStudio Grove – Temperature&Humidity Sensor (High-Accuracy & Mini) for development.

The first time I try and read anything from the device it fails. Otherwise my driver works as expected.

Bill of materials (prices as at April 2015)

• Netduino Plus 2 USD60 NZD108
• Grove – Temperature&Humidity Sensor (High-Accuracy & Mini) USD11.50
• Grove – Base Shield USD8.90

This code just shows the flow, I’ll package into a driver shortly

I strobe the I2C line which seems to help

using (OutputPort i2cPort = new OutputPort(Pins.GPIO_PIN_SDA, true))
{
   i2cPort.Write(false);
   Thread.Sleep(1000);
}

I then try and read the Device ID (0x50) from register 0X11 but this (and any other read fails)

byte[] writeBuffer = { RegisterIdDeviceId };
byte[] readBuffer = new byte[1];

I2CDevice.I2CTransaction[] action = new I2CDevice.I2CTransaction[] 
{ 
   I2CDevice.CreateWriteTransaction(writeBuffer),
   I2CDevice.CreateReadTransaction(readBuffer)
};

int length = device.Execute(action, TransactionTimeoutMilliseconds);
Debug.Print("Byte count " + length.ToString());
foreach (byte Byte in readBuffer)
{
   Debug.Print(Byte.ToString("X2"));
}

I can read the temperature and humidity by writing to the command register

byte[] writeBuffer = { RegisterIdConiguration, CMD_MEASURE_TEMP };

I2CDevice.I2CTransaction[] action = new I2CDevice.I2CTransaction[] 
{ 
   I2CDevice.CreateWriteTransaction(writeBuffer),
};

int length = device.Execute(action, TransactionTimeoutMilliseconds);
Debug.Print("Byte count" + length.ToString());

Then poll for measurement process to finish

conversionInProgress = true
do
{
   byte[] writeBuffer = { RegisterIdStatus };
   byte[] readBuffer = new byte[1];

   I2CDevice.I2CTransaction[] action = new I2CDevice.I2CTransaction[] 
   { 
      I2CDevice.CreateWriteTransaction(writeBuffer4),
      I2CDevice.CreateReadTransaction(readBuffer4)
   };

   int length = device.Execute(action, TransactionTimeoutMilliseconds);
   Debug.Print("Byte count " + length.ToString());
   foreach (byte Byte in readBuffer)
   {
      Debug.Print(Byte.ToString());
   }

   if ((readBuffer[RegisterIdStatus] && STATUS_RDY_MASK) != STATUS_RDY_MASK)
   {
      conversionInProgress = false;
   }
} while (conversionInProgress);

Then finally read and convert the value

byte[] writeBuffer = { REG_DATA_H };
byte[] readBuffer = new byte[2];

I2CDevice.I2CTransaction[] action = new I2CDevice.I2CTransaction[] 
{ 
   I2CDevice.CreateWriteTransaction(writeBuffer),
   I2CDevice.CreateReadTransaction(readBuffer)
};

int length = device.Execute(action, TransactionTimeoutMilliseconds);
Debug.Print("Byte count " + length.ToString());
foreach (byte Byte in readBuffer)
{
   Debug.Print(Byte.ToString());
}

int temp = readBuffer[0];

temp = temp << 8;
temp = temp + readBuffer[1];
temp = temp >> 2;

double temperature = (temp / 32.0) - 50.0;

Debug.Print(" Temp " + temperature.ToString("F1"));