BME680 Home Assistant Integration

Hi 👋, In this short article I will highlight how to use the BME680 Home Assistant integration with a BME680 Sensor. Please note that I’m running Home Assistant core on Raspbian OS. Raspberry Pi Setup Before connecting the sensor, you will need to enable the I2C interface on your Raspberry Pi and install some additional tools that are useful for debugging. To enable the I2C interface execute: sudo raspi-config Then go to Interfacing options->I2C and select yes....

January 16, 2022 · 4 min · Denis Nuțiu

PMS5003 Particulate Matter Sensor Test Run

Hi In this article we’ll test out the PMS5003 sensor in order to see if it works. I’ve forgot to buy a connector board, so we will do a manual connection to the Raspberry Pi 3 B V2. This involves cutting the wires and adding some resistors. Please note that you need: 5 Jumper Wires 2 Resistors 10K Ohm Raspberry Pi Setup Before connecting the sensor to the Pi we need to configure the Pi for this usecase....

March 28, 2021 · 2 min · Denis Nuțiu