I2C Testing with the Buspirate
This mini article is part of a larger project an I will link to it at the end. For this project, I was required to use the TI HDC1000 and instead of buying a module, I decided to get samples and a make a PCB of my own. This would be great except I had to create the footprints which are almost microscopic! Anyways I got it made from SeeedStudios and I bought one of those ultra cheap hot air stations with no indications about temperature or airflow and some paste and got started. The reflow happened painlessly and I was pretty happy with myself. Before I move on to mounting any other parts, I decided to see if the HDC1000 was alive or had kicked the bucked in my hotair experiment.
So I started with soldering the header as well as power test pins and I hooked up the BusPirate. Har har har! I think I can explain the rest via a video and so…
Reading the Temperature and Humidity
In order to read temperature and humidity, there is a set of commands you have fire at it. You should go through the datasheet but I am going to give you the quick and dirty on reading the temperature & RH.
The first thing to do it configure the HDC1000 to take measurements. It is usually in deep-sleep so I need to wake it up and configure it. So I have to send…
[0x86 0x02 0x1e 0x00]
Why I send that? Well the 0x86 is the address of the HDC1000 with write bit and 0x02 is the configuration register address. 0x1e & 0x00 is the configuration to write.
Next we Trigger the reading by
[0x96 0x00
Note that there is no ] at the end which means that I do not send a stop character. Next I send…
[0x87 rrrr]
Which sends another start of frame and the read address of the HDC1000. We read 4 bytes which are MSB then LSB for the Temperature and Humidity.
I am getting the temperature but the humidity still boggles me and I think I may have burned it out. I will post more once I test another HDC1000 or someone helps me 😉
Till then,
Cheers,
IP
The Embedded Code 
Looks great! It’d be nice to see that PCB closely 🙂
I’ve actually built a similar (very tiny!) breakout board for the same chip but I’m still waiting for the PCBs to arrive so I have yet to write anything about it: https://github.com/ftruzzi/HDC1000_Breakout
Also, I see your participated to the IoT holiday lights contest… I was in that one too!
I strongly suggest a reflow oven to solder that on. Its freeky small that hdc1000
do you have a board? I would like to buy one from you…..
Thanks for the Comment Alberto. I do not sell hardware and if you are looking for something in particular, I can help you make your own.
Thanks
Hello Inderpreet,
my breakout boards have arrived and I also built an Arduino library, more details on my blog: http://b.truzzi.me/hdc1000-temperature-and-humidity-sensor-breakout-with-arduino-library/
However, I don’t understand how you’re configuring the chip in your code. Sending “0x1e” followed by “0x00” you are trying to set the BTST bit, which is read-only. Also, you are setting the temp resolution to 11 bit. Try different configs (for example “0x10” followed by “0x00” – 14bit resolution for both temp and humi).
Also, for reading both humidity and temperature you should then send a read command to the 0x00 register, close the transmission and read the following 4 bytes (the first 2 are the temperature and the last are the humidity) after a delay of some millisecs.
Take a look at these screenshots from my logic analyzer.
Config + read request packets: http://i.imgur.com/ztCtEbB.png
Read data after 20ms delay (temp: 0x5D, 0x24 – humi: 0x68, 0xA4): http://i.imgur.com/2akzJvt.png
Associated Arduino code: http://pastebin.com/C6kkSJhG
Let me know if this works!
Many thanks for the input and I will be sure to try it out ASAP.