meshtastic/docs/software/settings/environmental-measurment-plugin.md

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environmental-measurement-plugin	Environmental Measurement Plugin Settings	Environmental Measurement Plugin

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Overview

The Environment Measurement Plugin will allow nodes to send a specific message with information from connected environmental sensors. Currently supported sensors are BME280, BME680, DHT11, DHT12, DHT21, DHT22 and Dallas 1-wire DS18B20.

:::note Once settings are changed, a reset is required for them to take effect. :::

Settings

Setting	Acceptable Values	Default
environmental_measurement_plugin_measurement_enabled	true, false	false
environmental_measurement_plugin_display_farenheit	true, false	false
environmental_measurement_plugin_read_error_count_threshold	integer	0
environmental_measurement_plugin_recovery_interval	integer (seconds)	0
environmental_measurement_plugin_screen_enabled	true, false	0
environmental_measurement_plugin_sensor_pin	integer	0
environmental_measurement_plugin_sensor_type	0-6	0
environmental_measurement_plugin_update_interval	integer (seconds)	0

environmental_measurement_plugin_measurement_enabled

Enables the plugin.

environmental_measurement_plugin_display_farenheit

The sensor is always read in Celsius, but the user can opt to view the temperature display in Fahrenheit using this setting.

environmental_measurement_plugin_read_error_count_threshold

Sometimes sensor reads can fail. If this happens, we will retry a configurable number of attempts. Each attempt will be delayed by the minimum required refresh rate for that sensor

environmental_measurement_plugin_recovery_interval

Sometimes we can end up with more than read_error_count_threshold failures. In this case, we will stop trying to read from the sensor for a while. Wait this long until trying to read from the sensor again.

environmental_measurement_plugin_screen_enabled

Enable/Disable the environmental measurement plugin on-device display.

environmental_measurement_plugin_sensor_pin

:::note The preferred setup is using I2C, so the environmental_measurement_plugin_sensor_pin may not be needed. :::

Specify the preferred GPIO Pin for sensor readings. May not be needed if using I2C.

environmental_measurement_plugin_sensor_type

Specify the sensor type.

Value	Description
0	DHT11
1	DS18B20 (Dallas 1-wire)
2	DHT12
3	DHT21
4	DHT22
5	BME280
6	BME680

environmental_measurement_plugin_update_interval

Interval in seconds of how often we should try to send our measurements to the mesh.

Details

Hardware

The sensors can be wired differently, here's one example for sensor DS18B20.

Known Problems

• No default configuration values are currently set, so this must be done when enabling the plugin.

Examples

Enable/Disable the plugin

<Tabs groupId="settings" defaultValue="cli" values={[ {label: 'CLI', value: 'cli'}, {label: 'Android', value: 'android'}, {label: 'iOS', value: 'iOS'}, {label: 'Web', value: 'web'}, ]}>

meshtastic --set environmental_measurement_plugin_measurement_enabled true

meshtastic --set environmental_measurement_plugin_measurement_enabled false

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Enable/Disable the plugin on device screen

<Tabs groupId="settings" defaultValue="cli" values={[ {label: 'CLI', value: 'cli'}, {label: 'Android', value: 'android'}, {label: 'iOS', value: 'iOS'}, {label: 'Web', value: 'web'}, ]}>

meshtastic --set environmental_measurement_plugin_screen_enabled true

meshtastic --set environmental_measurement_plugin_screen_enabled false

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Display Farenheit/Celsius

<Tabs groupId="settings" defaultValue="cli" values={[ {label: 'CLI', value: 'cli'}, {label: 'Android', value: 'android'}, {label: 'iOS', value: 'iOS'}, {label: 'Web', value: 'web'}, ]}>

meshtastic --set environmental_measurement_plugin_display_farenheit true

meshtastic --set environmental_measurement_plugin_display_farenheit false

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Set plugin update interval

<Tabs groupId="settings" defaultValue="cli" values={[ {label: 'CLI', value: 'cli'}, {label: 'Android', value: 'android'}, {label: 'iOS', value: 'iOS'}, {label: 'Web', value: 'web'}, ]}>

meshtastic --set environmental_measurement_plugin_update_interval 15

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Set Sensor type

<Tabs groupId="settings" defaultValue="cli" values={[ {label: 'CLI', value: 'cli'}, {label: 'Android', value: 'android'}, {label: 'iOS', value: 'iOS'}, {label: 'Web', value: 'web'}, ]}>

:::note The CLI is able to take the value or the name of the sensor. :::

meshtastic --set environmental_measurement_plugin_sensor_type 1

meshtastic --set environmental_measurement_plugin_sensor_type DS18B20

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