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It seems to work very similarly with master, but this version is obviously a lot more reliable than what's in there.
I still get fairly large differences between reads, but I get them when increasing the delay as well so I suppose that is that.
Sadly this sensor still has a lot of issues left (it feels more like a touch sensor instead of a moisture sensor) so I have taken it out of my project.
Bummer. Did you switch to a different sensor?
I'm trying out a Gravity Capacitive Analog Sensor. It looks promising so far.
I'm trying out a Gravity Capacitive Analog Sensor. It looks promising so far.
Thanks, I'll check it out.
Sadly this sensor still has a lot of issues left (it feels more like a touch sensor instead of a moisture sensor) so I have taken it out of my project.
Can you elaborate on what other issues you ran into? I'm evaluating different soil sensors as well so it would be helpful to understand what other problems you encountered.
I'm trying out a Gravity Capacitive Analog Sensor. It looks promising so far.
Thanks, I'll check it out.
Sadly this sensor still has a lot of issues left (it feels more like a touch sensor instead of a moisture sensor) so I have taken it out of my project.
Can you elaborate on what other issues you ran into? I'm evaluating different soil sensors as well so it would be helpful to understand what other problems you encountered.
Here are some links to issues raised by other people that I'm also encountering. I love Adafruit products and I have a lot of them, but this specific sensor seems to fail miserably at it's job.
https://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=152792 https://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=157971 https://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=156823
Thanks for the links. That's quite helpful to know that others are also seeing the 1015 max value and I'm not going crazy.
I will be curious to hear how you get on with the DFRobot sensor. I think I will try this one: https://www.tindie.com/products/miceuz/i2c-soil-moisture-sensor/
The DFRobot sensor worked very well for a few weeks (apart from the regular issues that come when using analog sensors) and then it died. I suppose that it was mostly my fault, for not waterproofing it.
I've just got a Catnip rugged sensor. It works fine so far. Fingers crossed that it will continue working well.
I've been using the rugged catnip sensor for a few weeks and it works very well.
Alternative to #25
touchRead
when sensor is not connectedendTransaction()
)touchRead(0)
not working with latest soil sensor firmware which requires a longer delaySEESAW_I2C_DEBUG
is enabled to cover retries and failure modescc @ladyada @mihai-dinculescu