Supported Platforms

The qwiic BME280 Python package current supports the following platforms:

Dependencies

This driver package depends on the qwiic I2C driver: Qwiic_I2C_Py

Documentation

The SparkFun qwiic BME280 module documentation is hosted at ReadTheDocs

Installation

PyPi Installation

This repository is hosted on PyPi as the sparkfun-qwiic-bme280 package. On systems that support PyPi installation via pip, this library is installed using the following commands

For all users (note: the user must have sudo privileges):

sudo pip install sparkfun-qwiic-bme280

For the current user:

pip install sparkfun-qwiic-bme280

Local Installation

To install, make sure the setuptools package is installed on the system.

Direct installation at the command line:

python setup.py install

To build a package for use with pip:

python setup.py sdist

A package file is built and placed in a subdirectory called dist. This package file can be installed using pip.

cd dist

pip install sparkfun_qwiic_bme280-<version>.tar.gz

Example Use

See the examples directory for more detailed use examples.

import qwiic_bme280
import time
import sys
 
def runExample():
 
    print("\nSparkFun BME280 Sensor  Example 1\n")
    mySensor = qwiic_bme280.QwiicBme280()
 
    if mySensor.connected == False:
        print("The Qwiic BME280 device isn't connected to the system. Please check your connection", \
            file=sys.stderr)
        return
 
    mySensor.begin()
 
    while True:
        print("Humidity:\t%.3f" % mySensor.humidity)
 
        print("Pressure:\t%.3f" % mySensor.pressure)    
 
        print("Altitude:\t%.3f" % mySensor.altitude_feet)
 
        print("Temperature:\t%.2f" % mySensor.temperature_fahrenheit)       
 
        print("")
        
        time.sleep(1)