Reading temperature and humidity

[drwill]

I'm using an ESP32 Azure IoT Kit. I want to send temperature and humidity along as telemetry to my IoT hub.

I cannot find almost any information on how to do this. I came across one post here where someone refers to using uint8_t temprature_sens_read() (note that the word temperature is misspelled) and much to my surprise that worked. I've searched the code base in esp-idf and can't find a single file that defines that function. There is no include file, you just "extern" it in your .c file.

I still need to get humidity. I haven't found any documentation or samples about that.

Am I reading temperature the right way? How do I get humidity?

Thanks,
David

P.S. I'm surprised the temperature reading is in F. I'd think C would be a better worldwide standard, and I'm curious about the decision to report in F.

[WiFive]

https://github.com/espressif/esp-iot-so ... re_iot_kit

[drwill]

I found this sample, which uses a very different approach than the function I found for temperature earlier.

Is this what is recommended?

https://github.com/espressif/esp-iot-so ... ain/main.c

Thanks,
David

[WiFive]

temprature_sens_read is not what you want. It is for reading esp32 internal temperature.

[drwill]

temprature_sens_read is not what you want. It is for reading esp32 internal temperature.

Gotcha.

In the samples, why are temp and humidity divided by 10?

[WiFive]

To convert to decimal

[drwill]

To convert to decimal

I guess a better way to ask my question is, if my temperature reading is 30.4 C, why is it stored as 304?

I assumed the values are stored with accuracy of 0.1, but as an integer because maybe they store better than floats.

[tommeyers]

Are you using the HTS221 temp/humid sensor ?

if so: https://github.com/espressif/esp-iot-so ... /README.md

[drwill]

Are you using the HTS221 temp/humid sensor ?

if so: https://github.com/espressif/esp-iot-so ... /README.md

I didn't realize I am, but I am. I took a second look at the spec sheet to confirm. I'm new to MCUs and honestly don't know many things, but I'm learning.

I got a solution working yesterday, but the instructions didn't work. I resorted to copying the relevant components to my project component directory, and it finally built.

[tommeyers]

Post what you need.

Post what you have tried.

we'll help where we can.

Tom