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Radspod One Gets An Upgrade
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A very kind gentleman recently sent me an outdoor BME280. It is a smaller version of the BME280 breakout board, but in an outdoor enclosure. It was sent with one very simple instruction: "For Radspod One." I think it is like this one from AliExpress but there seem to be a few different types so have a look about.
Not too long ago, Steadramon added capability to ESPGeiger for the BME280, BMP280 and I think the BME680, but don't quote me on that. Anyway, as it was intended for Radspod One, and now ESPGeiger firmware supports the BME280, it would be very rude not to! So I did. 😁
It was all quite simple, give the sensor power and connect up the I2C lines. Then just power it up. ESPGeiger firmware takes care of the rest. You can choose custom SDA/SCL pins, but I left them at their defaults (D1 & D2 on the Wemos D1 Mini).
I also took the opportunity to add waterproof connectors that should make it much easier to maintain in the future, and also makes it easy to replace the BME280 sensor should it go bad in the future. I got the 3-pin versions some time ago, I forget where from and I got the 4-pin versions recently from AliExpress, for this purpose.
I haven't had an outdoor temperature/humidity sensor for a while now, and whilst it's no substitute for a weather station, it is nice to know the temperature and humidity outside instead of relying on local weather stations. I also have this displaying the data on my Home Assistant dashboard and I guess I can give my Home Assistant local LLM access to them, so it can just tell me. 😊 ESPGeiger really does make Geiger counter integration easy.
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Glad it all integrated fine! Cheers!