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Mikrobus.Net Quail and Weather Click

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In my second batch of MikroElektronika Mikrobus sensors I had purchased a Weather click because I was interested to see how the temperature and humidity values it returned compared with the Silicon labs Si7005 devices I use with my Arduino and Netduino devices. (I was a bit suspicious of the Si7005 humidity values)

I downloaded the Mikrobus.Net driver for the BME280 and created a simple console application to see how well the sensor and driver worked

public class Program
{
   public static void Main()
   {
      WeatherClick weatherClick = new WeatherClick(Hardware.SocketOne, WeatherClick.I2CAddresses.Address0);

      weatherClick.SetRecommendedMode(WeatherClick.RecommendedModes.WeatherMonitoring);

      while (true)
      {
         Debug.Print("T " + weatherClick.ReadTemperature().ToString(" F1 ") +
" H " + weatherClick.ReadHumidity().ToString("F1") +
" P " + weatherClick.ReadPressure(PressureCompensationModes.Uncompensated).ToString("F1"));

         Thread.Sleep(30000);
      }
   }
}

The temperature values looked pretty good but the humidity values were rough half of what I was getting from the SI7005 connected to a devDuino V2 on the desk next to my Quail board

The thread ‘<No Name>’ (0x2) has exited with code 0 (0x0).
T 24.9 H 49.3 P 1014.8
T 25.0 H 49.4 P 1014.9
T 25.0 H 49.1 P 1014.8
T 25.0 H 49.9 P 1014.8
T 24.9 H 49.1 P 1014.9
T 25.0 H 50.8 P 1014.9
T 25.0 H 49.2 P 1015.0

The code for doing the conversions looked pretty complex so I modified a Netduino BME280 driver (uses a different approach for conversions) I have used on another projects to work on the Quail/Mikrobus architecture.

The modified driver returned roughly the same values so it looks like the problem is most probably with the SI7005 code.(or my understand of the humidity values it returns)

Netduino Silicon Labs Si7005 Device Driver

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A while back I wrote a post about some problems I was having with a Silicon Labs Si7005 device and now I have had some time to package up the code.

My code strobes the I2C SDA line and then initiates a request that will always fail, from there on everything works as expected.

public SiliconLabsSI7005(byte deviceId = DeviceIdDefault, int clockRateKHz = ClockRateKHzDefault, int transactionTimeoutmSec = TransactionTimeoutmSecDefault)
{
   this.deviceId = deviceId;
   this.clockRateKHz = clockRateKHz;
   this.transactionTimeoutmSec = transactionTimeoutmSec;

   using (OutputPort i2cPort = new OutputPort(Pins.GPIO_PIN_SDA, true))
   {
      i2cPort.Write(false);
      Thread.Sleep(250);
   }

   using (I2CDevice device = new I2CDevice(new I2CDevice.Configuration(deviceId, clockRateKHz)))
   {
      byte[] writeBuffer = { RegisterIdDeviceId };
      byte[] readBuffer = new byte[1];

      // The first request always fails
      I2CDevice.I2CTransaction[] action = new I2CDevice.I2CTransaction[] 
      { 
         I2CDevice.CreateWriteTransaction(writeBuffer),
         I2CDevice.CreateReadTransaction(readBuffer)
      };

      if( device.Execute(action, transactionTimeoutmSec) == 0 )
      {
         //   throw new ApplicationException("Unable to send get device id command");
      }
   }
}

This is how the driver should be used in an application

public static void Main()
{
   SiliconLabsSI7005 sensor = new SiliconLabsSI7005();

   while (true)
   {
      double temperature = sensor.Temperature();

      double humidity = sensor.Humidity();

      Debug.Print("T:" + temperature.ToString("F1") + " H:" + humidity.ToString("F1"));

      Thread.Sleep(5000);
      }
   }

I have added code to catch failures and there is a sample application in the project. For a project I’m working on I will modify the code to use one of the I2C sharing libraries so I can have a number of devices on the bus

Silicon Labs Si7005 Device Driver oddness

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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.

Netduino 2 Plus & Silicon Labs Si7005

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(&quot;Byte count &quot; + length.ToString());
foreach (byte Byte in readBuffer)
{
   Debug.Print(Byte.ToString(&quot;X2&quot;));
}

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(&quot;Byte count&quot; + 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(&quot;Byte count &quot; + length.ToString());
   foreach (byte Byte in readBuffer)
   {
      Debug.Print(Byte.ToString());
   }

   if ((readBuffer[RegisterIdStatus] &amp;&amp; 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(&quot;Byte count &quot; + length.ToString());
foreach (byte Byte in readBuffer)
{
   Debug.Print(Byte.ToString());
}

int temp = readBuffer[0];

temp = temp &lt;&lt; 8;
temp = temp + readBuffer[1];
temp = temp &gt;&gt; 2;

double temperature = (temp / 32.0) - 50.0;

Debug.Print(&quot; Temp &quot; + temperature.ToString(&quot;F1&quot;));