I bought this PH sensor and I have a pi 3b+ and pi zero
http://a.co/h77JU2Y
What is the best way to get this into cayenne?
I’ve read some stuff like use one of these Electrochemical Sensing Circuit - Compatible Microprocessor UART or I2C Protocol
But I also read it would be easier to just hook the analog output pin from the PH meter to one of the adafruit ADS1115 16-Bit ADC - 4 Channel with Programmable Gain
What would be the easier way? I like the idea of using the adafruit analog to digital.
If i add it as new device is there a way to calibrate it? to show the correct ph values? I have ph 4 and 7 here but how does configuring cayenne work?
secondary if I use the adafruit digital to analog converter can I add some soil sensors to it too?I’ve read they can meter on the analog pin but the normal digital way to hook them to a pi only does 0/1 on/off.
Pi agent 2.0 does not support extension board and pH sensor so you will need to do some coding for the same and add device to cayenne using GitHub - myDevicesIoT/Cayenne-MQTT-Python: Python Library for Cayenne MQTT API
you can try I2C How to Connect a pH Sensor to a Raspberry Pi - My HydroPi
what do you mean by configuration?
for soil moisture sensor you dont need a ADC https://www.instructables.com/id/Soil-Moisture-Sensor-Raspberry-Pi/
on the configuration I mean what if ( i dont know yet ) the adafruit causes it to use numbers like 4100 instead of 4.1ph. or 6345.223 instead of 6.3 would there be a way to configure that so the panel/tile only shows 6.3ph value and not a long list of digital output.
I’ve done the pi digital soil meter but I thought the analog would give a graph of moisture\resistance value instead of just a wet or dry. on.off type on signal.
To configure the value as 6.3 you need to do the conversion in your code.
Something like this.
y = x / 1000
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