Pimoroni Enviro+ - data not being received

vgnmnky · March 23, 2021, 9:54pm

Hi. I’ve set up a Pimoroni Enviro+ with a Raspberry Pi zero, including the particle sensor add-on (PMS5003).

Pimoroni have sample scripts, and back when things were under the Luftdaten name, I used their luftdaten.py script which successfully sent the readings to the Luftdaten site and showed the sensor on the map.

github.com

pimoroni/enviroplus-python/blob/master/examples/luftdaten.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import requests
import ST7735
import time
from bme280 import BME280
from pms5003 import PMS5003, ReadTimeoutError
from subprocess import PIPE, Popen, check_output
from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont
from fonts.ttf import RobotoMedium as UserFont

try:
    from smbus2 import SMBus
except ImportError:
    from smbus import SMBus

print("""luftdaten.py - Reads temperature, pressure, humidity,
PM2.5, and PM10 from Enviro plus and sends data to Luftdaten,
the citizen science air quality project.

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I set it up again recently following the same instructions. It successfully displays the sensor readings when I run the script in a terminal, but it seems like sensor.community isn’t receiving anything. I changed the api address too, but that didn’t help. The Pi is definitely connected to the internet, I can ping out from it no problem. There are no error messages.

Did anything other than the api address change when it went from luftdaten to sensor.community? Has anyone else got the same set-up working?

Thanks for any guidance!

ricki-z · March 23, 2021, 11:29pm

Could you please post the response output?
And it would be nice to have the “chipID” of your system so that I can check the database entry. Please send this ID to rajko (at) sensor.community.

maucyr · February 6, 2022, 6:23am

@vgnmnky hope all is well. Just wanted to see if you were able to resolve this? I’m encountering the same issue, I had a sensor that used to connect successfully to the old domain but now data does not send to sensor.community.

pjg · February 6, 2022, 7:39am

Please check the api address and the formating of the json which has to be sent. Send the ID to Tech@sensor.community.

ricki-z · February 6, 2022, 8:47am

In the mentioned script you only need to replace “api.luftdaten.info” with “api.sensor.community”.
2 years after renaming the project others had enough time to adapt scripts like this one.

ricki-z · February 6, 2022, 8:54am

If the github maintainer of Pimoroni is accepting my pull request then there should be an updated version in the next few days.

vgnmnky · February 7, 2022, 5:11pm

Hi @maucyr.

In the end (and if I remember correctly) someone at the sensor.community team deleted my original entry on their system. I think there was a conflict between an old installation and the newer one. After that it worked fine!

Lukas · February 18, 2023, 7:00pm

@vgnmnky - you are here on Forum.Sensor.Community

Luftdaten.info was our local german project from 2016-2018.

→ Sensor.Community is the global open environmental data platform.

We have 2023 and now in the 5th year of Sensor.Community you should only refer to Sensor.Community.