DHT2302 Sensor

[thogue]

Afternoon everyone,


First, I thought I would chime in here, I have the dht2302 working great on my pi, It took lots of playing with in order to get it to read properly. I recompiled the C code to exclude the prints except the Temp / Humidity line, this made working with it in python a little easier on me, for efficiencies sake this might not be the best. I had trouble recompiling and after a little research, this solved my error

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gcc -l rt Adafruit_DHT.c -l bcm2835 -std=gnu99 -o Adafruit_DHT

my python code runs the c app to get the data,
writes it to the lcd,
sleeps 2 seconds.

if data is not received, it sleeps for .05 and tries again. So far the most failures in a row I've seen is 3. Timing seems very important when reading the sensor. I have played with the sleeps in my program for a bit, and this is the best results I have gotten so far.

here is my code for anything that might want to take a look, most of the code was taken from adafruits examples. (Thanks again Adafruit)

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try:
	from Adafruit_CharLCD import Adafruit_CharLCD
	from subprocess import *
	from time import sleep, strftime
	#from datetime import datetime

	lcd = Adafruit_CharLCD()

	# Returns a strink containing Temp / Humidity seperated by a space
	cmd = "/root/tempclock/Adafruit_DHT 2302 4 | awk -F' ' '{ print $3\" \"$7'}"

	lcd.begin(16,1)

	def run_cmd(cmd):
		p = Popen(cmd, shell=True, stdout=PIPE)
		output = p.communicate()[0]
		return output

	while 1:
		temps = run_cmd(cmd)
		# Handle misreads properly, this setting seems to be best of both worlds quick/reliable
		while temps == "":
			print "sleeping .05, didnt read"
			sleep(.05)
			temps = run_cmd(cmd) 
		temps.rstrip()
		temp, humid = temps.split()
		temp = 9.0 * float(temp) / 5.0 + 32
		print "Temp: " + str(temp) + "F Humidity: " + str(humid)
		lcd.clear()
		# Prevent lcd curruption, while lcd is clearing
		sleep(.1)
	#       lcd.message(datetime.now().strftime('%b %d  %H:%M:%S\n'))
	#       lcd.message('Temp: ' + str(temp) + 'Hum: ' + str(humid) + '%'  )
		lcd.message('Temp: ' + str(temp) + 'F\n')
		lcd.message('Hum: ' + str(humid) + '%')      
		sleep(2)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
	lcd.cleanup()