The state-of-the-art BME680 breakout lets you measure temperature, pressure, humidity, and indoor air quality, and is Raspberry Pi and Arduino-compatible!
Use this breakout to monitor every aspect of your indoor environment. Its gas resistance
readings will react to changes in volatile organic compounds and can be combined with
humidity readings to give a measure of indoor air quality.
Want to get an idea of whether there's adequate ventilation in your bedroom, your
workshop, or workplace? Set up a BME680 on a Pi Zero W and have it log sensor
readings to a file, or stream live data to a web service like freeboard.io.
Includes:
- BME680 breakout
- 1x5 male header
- 1x5 female right angle header
This breakout board is designed so that you can solder on the piece of right angle
female header and pop it straight onto the bottom left 5 pins on your Raspberry Pi's
GPIO header (pins 1, 3, 5, 6, 9). The right angle header also has the advantage of
positioning the breakout away from the Pi's CPU so as to minimise radiated heat.
Software
As well as the C library provided by Bosch, there is a Pimoroni Python library (with a
quick and painless one-line-installer) to use with your BME680, making it
straightforward to combine it with our other boards (why not use a Blinkt! or Unicorn
pHAT to visualise air quality in real time?). The software does not support Raspbian Wheezy.
Notes
- In testing, Pimoroni found that the sensor requires some burn-in time (at least 20 minutes) and
that readings may take a couple of minutes to stabilise after beginning measurements
- The solder pads (marked ADDR) can be bridged to change the I2C address from the default of
0x76 to 0x77, meaning that you can use up to two sensors on the same Raspberry Pi or
Arduino
- Dimensions: 19x19x2.75mm
Features:
- Bosch BME680 temperature, pressure, humidity, air quality sensor
- I2C interface, with address select via ADDR solder bridge (0x76 or 0x77)
- 3.3V or 5V compatible
- Raspberry Pi-compatible pinout (pins 1, 3, 5, 7, 9)
- Compatible with Raspberry Pi 3B+, 3, 2, B+, A+, Zero, and Zero W
- Python library