HI Im trying to get my BME280 sensor to work with a Pi Zero running Rasp-OS. I have enabled the i2c interface and installed the pimoroni python library, running the all-values.py returns the error:- RuntimeError: Unable to find bme280 on 0x76, CHIP_ID returned 58 If i run i2cdetect I get the sens…

Try running sudo pip3 install pimoroni-bme280 Just in case its a python 2 versus python 3 thing. pip installs for python 2 and pip3 installs for python 3.

Thanks, yeah its definitly the python3 version im running, used pip3 and also grabbed the source straight from github. Same issue though.

Hi, Not sure if this helps, but are you sure you have the right component/library combination? While looking at another problem (now solved) I noticed here: sensor on i2c with 0x76 address doesn't work since update opened 09:32PM - 24 Mar…

I also have troubles: WARNING Main Loop Exception: Unable to find bme280 on 0x76, IOError I have tried everything rebooted, reseated all connections. It failed after ~6 months of constant use.

BME280 - unable to find

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joe June 13, 2020, 4:05pm 4

I tried the RPi.bme280 lib and it seemed to work fine. Can only think this is an issue with the pimoroni-bme280 lib?

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