WLED/usermods/BME280_v2/README.md

Usermod BME280

This Usermod is designed to read a BME280 or BMP280 sensor and output the following:

• Temperature
• Humidity (BME280 only)
• Pressure
• Heat Index (BME280 only)
• Dew Point (BME280 only)

Configuration is all completed via the Usermod menu. There are no settings to set in code! The following settings can be configured in the Usermod Menu:

• Temperature Decimals (number of decimal places to output)
• Humidity Decimals
• Pressure Decimals
• Temperature Interval (how many seconds between reads of temperature and humidity)
• Pressure Interval
• Publish Always (turn off to only publish changes, on to publish whether or not value changed)
• Use Celsius (turn off to use Farenheit)
• Home Assistant Discovery (turn on to sent MQTT Discovery entries for Home Assistant)
• SCL/SDA GPIO Pins

Dependencies

• Libraries
  • BME280@~3.0.0 (by finitespace)
  • Wire
  • These must be added under lib_deps in your platform.ini (or platform_override.ini).
• Data is published over MQTT - make sure you've enabled the MQTT sync interface.
• This usermod also writes to serial (GPIO1 on ESP8266). Please make sure nothing else listening on the serial TX pin of your board will get confused by log messages!

In addition to outputting via MQTT, you can read the values from the Info Screen on the dashboard page of the device's web interface.

Methods also exist to read the read/calculated values from other WLED modules through code.

• getTemperatureC()
• getTemperatureF()
• getHumidity()
• getPressure()
• getDewPointC()
• getDewPointF()
• getHeatIndexC()
• getHeatIndexF()

Complilation

To enable, compile with USERMOD_BME280 defined (e.g. in platformio_override.ini)

[env:usermod_bme280_d1_mini]
extends = env:d1_mini
build_flags =
  ${common.build_flags_esp8266}
  -D USERMOD_BME280
lib_deps = 
  ${esp8266.lib_deps}
  BME280@~3.0.0
  Wire

MQTT

MQTT topics are as follows (<deviceTopic> is set in MQTT section of Sync Setup menu):

Measurement type	MQTT topic
Temperature	<deviceTopic>/temperature
Humidity	<deviceTopic>/humidity
Pressure	<deviceTopic>/pressure
Heat index	<deviceTopic>/heat_index
Dew point	<deviceTopic>/dew_point

If you are using Home Assistant, and Home Assistant Discovery is turned on, Home Assistant should automatically detect a new device, provided you have the MQTT integration installed. The device is seperate from the main WLED device and will contain sensors for Pressure, Humidity, Temperature, Dew Point and Heat Index.

Revision History

Jul 2022

• Added Home Assistant Discovery
• Added API interface to output data
• Removed compile-time variables
• Added usermod menu interface
• Added value outputs to info screen
• Updated readme.md
• Registered usermod
• Implemented PinManager for usermod
• Implemented reallocation of pins without reboot

Apr 2021

• Added Publish Always option

Dec 2020

• Ported to V2 Usermod format
• Customisable measure intervals
• Customisable number of decimal places in published sensor values
• Pressure measured in units of hPa instead of Pa
• Calculation of heat index (apparent temperature) and dew point
• 16x oversampling of sensor during measurement
• Values only published if they are different from the previous value