How to manage BME280 package?

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Cesare Vassallo asked 8 months ago

In module 5 of your PiPico book
import BME280
Thommy answer is:
ImportError: no module named ‘BME280’

if Iinstall package bme280 and change to;
Thommy answer is;
An error occurred: ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘bme280’

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Sara Santos Staff answered 8 months ago

Hi.
Did you follow the instructions on page 204, 205, and 206?
Regards,
sara

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Cesare Vassallo answered 8 months ago

Sorry no

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Sara Santos Staff answered 8 months ago

You need to follow those instructions to properly install the library.
Regards,
Sara

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Cesare Vassallo answered 8 months ago

Very sorry!
instructions followed,
from finding I2c address is 0x77
but calling for temp
now I get
“An error occurred: [Errno 5] EIO”
wichever address i put
regards

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Cesare Vassallo answered 8 months ago

Hi Sara,
my sensor was a bme680 NOT bme280!!
Now everithing OK
Thanks for your patient reply
Regards Cesare

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Sara Santos Staff answered 8 months ago

Great.
I’ll mark this issue as resolved. If you need further help, you just need to open a new question in our forum.
Regards,
Sara