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BME280 returns higher temperature #7

Open spalk opened 4 years ago

spalk commented 4 years ago

The reason is box probably. ESP8266 chip is pretty warm and can make a mistake for temperature. Plan:

open the box and see if there is a difference
spalk commented 4 years ago

The box is not the reason. As turned out, bme280 sensor is not so good for measuring temperature. On the first place for this sensor are pressure and humidity. Temperature is available just for environment condition assessment. There are two ways for resolving this situation:

  1. Use another sensor for measuring temperature only.
  2. Collibrate bme280 if it's possible. Anyway another sensor is necessary.

The new plan is: