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# Grove - I2C High Accuracy Temperature Sensor(MCP9808)

The Grove - I2C High Accuracy Temperature Sensor(MCP9808) is a high accuracy digital module based on MCP9808. Unlike other sensors, you can choose the measurement resolution of this sensor. In addition to high-precision temperature measurements, we also offer programmable temperature alert. We use a separate pin to output the alarm signal, you will find it so convenient to use this signal as an interruption to control other board.

All in all, we believe this sensor will be a new star for temperature control.

## Features¶

• High Accuracy

• ±0.25 (typical) from -40°C to +125°C
• ±0.5°C (maximum) from -20°C to 100°C
• ±1°C (maximum) from -40°C to +125°C
• User-Selectable Measurement Resolution

• +0.5°C, +0.25°C, +0.125°C, +0.0625°C
• I2C interface

## Specification¶

Item Value
Working voltage 3.3V/5V
Operating range -40°C to +125°C
Digital interface I2C standard 400 kHz

## Applications¶

• Industrial Applications
• Industrial Freezers and Refrigerators
• Food Processing
• Personal Computers and Servers
• PC Peripherals
• Consumer Electronics
• Handheld/Portable Devices

## Hardware Overview¶

### Pin Map¶

#define DEFAULT_IIC_ADDR  0X18


A2=0 A0=0 A0=1
A1=0 A2A1A0-000,0x18 A2A1A0-001,0x19
A1=1 A2A1A0-010,0x1A A2A1A0-011,0x1B
A2=1 A0=0 A0=1
A1=0=0 A2A1A0-100,0x1C A2A1A0-101,0x1D
A1=0=1 A2A1A0-110,0x1E A2A1A0-111,0x1F

You can see the ALE Pad on the back of the PCB. The alert signal output from this pad can be used as an external interrupt signal for other controllers. The default output is high, in this board it should be 3.3V. When the condition is met, the output voltage becomes low(0V). You can set the condition when you finish this wiki 😄

### Schematic¶

As we mentioned above, we use those three sets of pads to select the I2C address, if you want to change the default adress, you can cut of the wire and re-solder it.

MCP9808

As you can see, the ALE pad is connected to the 3.3V through a pull-up resistor.

Bi-directional level shifter circuit

This is a typical Bi-directional level shifter circuit to connect two different voltage section of an I2C bus. The I2C bus of this sensor use 3.3V, if the I2C bus of the Arduino use 5V, this circuit will be needed. In the schematic above, Q6 and Q5 are N-Channel MOSFET 2N7002A, which act as a bidirectional switch. In order to better understand this part, you can refer to the AN10441

Tip

In this section we only show you part of the schematic, for the full document please refer to the Resources

## Platforms Supported¶

Arduino Raspberry Pi

Caution

The platforms mentioned above as supported is/are an indication of the module's software or theoritical compatibility. We only provide software library or code examples for Arduino platform in most cases. It is not possible to provide software library / demo code for all possible MCU platforms. Hence, users have to write their own software library.

## Getting Started¶

### Play With Arduino¶

#### Hardware¶

Materials required

Seeeduino V4.2 Base Shield Grove - I2C High Accuracy Temperature Sensor
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Note

1 Please plug the USB cable gently, otherwise you may damage the port. Please use the USB cable with 4 wires inside, the 2 wires cable can't transfer data. If you are not sure about the wire you have, you can click here to buy

2 Each Grove module comes with a Grove cable when you buy. In case you lose the Grove cable, you can click here to buy.

• Step 1. Connect the Grove - I2C High Accuracy Temperature Sensor to port I2C of Grove-Base Shield.

• Step 2. Plug Grove - Base Shield into Seeeduino.

• Step 3. Connect Seeeduino to PC via a USB cable.

Note

If we don't have Grove Base Shield, We also can directly connect this module to Seeeduino as below.

Seeeduino Grove-MCP9808
5V Red
GND Black
SDA White
SCL Yellow

#### Software¶

Note

If this is the first time you work with Arduino, we strongly recommend you to see Getting Started with Arduino before the start.

• Step 2. Refer to How to install library to install library for Arduino.

• Step 3. Restart the Arduino IDE. Open example via the path: File → Examples → Grove Temperature Sensor MCP9808 → MCP9808_demo_with_limit.

Tips

As shown in the picture above, we provide two demos for you, MCP9808_basic_demo and MCP9808_demo_with_limit. The MCP9808_basic_demo only provide the temperature, the alert fuction is disable. And for the MCP9808_demo_with_limit demo, the alert function is enable. If you just want the temperature, the basic demo will be fine. If you want to use the alert function, you should choose the limit demo.

• Step 5. Open the Serial Monitor of Arduino IDE by click Tool-> Serial Monitor. Or tap the Ctrl+Shift+M key at the same time. if every thing goes well, you will get the result.

The result sould be like

sensor init!!
temperature value is: 29.31
temperature value is: 29.31
temperature value is: 29.31
temperature value is: 29.25
temperature value is: 29.25
temperature value is: 29.25
temperature value is: 29.25
temperature value is: 29.25
temperature value is: 29.19
temperature value is: 29.25


Now, let's see how to use the ALE Pad.

The code in the demo MCP9808_demo_with_limit:

#include "Seeed_MCP9808.h"

MCP9808  sensor;

void setup()
{
Serial.begin(115200);
if(sensor.init())
{
Serial.println("sensor init failed!!");
}
//Set upper limit is 30°C
delay(10);
//Set upper limit is 32°C
delay(10);
//Enable the alert bit.The alert bit outputs low when the temperature value beyond limit.Otherwise stays high.

Serial.println("sensor init!!");
}

void loop()
{
float temp=0;
//Get temperature ,a float-form value.
sensor.get_temp(&temp);
Serial.print("temperature value is: ");
Serial.println(temp);
delay(1000);
}


In addition to measuring temperature, this code also implements a function. When the temperature is lower than 30℃, the ALE Pad output default high-3.3v. When the temperature is higher than 30℃, the ALE Pad will output low-0v.

So you may ask, what if i want to change the threshold temperature. OK, please come to the line 14:

sensor.set_upper_limit(SET_UPPER_LIMIT_ADDR,0x01e0);


We use this function to control the temperature, the first parameter is the UPPER_LIMIT register address and the second parameter 0x01e0 is the Hexadecimal temperature we set, as we mentioned above, it's 30℃. The 0x01e0 is a four bit Hexadecimal number, the last bit in the right represent the fractional part. We set it as 0, then the valid number is 0x1e. e means 14 in decimal, and the higer bit 1 means 16 in decimal. So 0x1e equals 16+14=30.

We provide 3 functions in the file Seeed_MCP9808.cpp.
sensor.set_upper_limit(SET_UPPER_LIMIT_ADDR,u16); sensor.set_lower_limit(SET_LOWER_LIMIT_ADDR,u16); sensor.set_critical_limit(SET_CRITICAL_LIMIT_ADDR,u16);

As we mentioned before, the default output of the ALE Pad is high, and the output level goes low when the temperature meets certain conditions. You can use those 3 functions to set your own conditions.

sensor.set_lower_limit(SET_LOWER_LIMIT_ADDR,u16) is used to set the lower temperature limit, u16 is the 4 bit Hexadecimal temperature we set. When the temperature is lower than the value we set, the output of the ALE Pad will goes down.

sensor.set_upper_limit(SET_UPPER_LIMIT_ADDR,u16) is used to set the upper temperature limit, also u16 is the 4 bit Hexadecimal temperature we set. When the temperature is higher than the value we set, the output of the ALE Pad will goes down.

sensor.set_critical_limit(SET_CRITICAL_LIMIT_ADDR,u16) is used for the inturrupt mode, in this wiki we only show you how to work as a comparator. If you want to know more, please check the datasheet .

Now we can set a condition zone by lower_limit and upper_limit, when the temperature comes to the condition zone, the output will goes low.

For example, if you want the ALE Pad output high between 28℃ and 30℃, and output low when the tempareture is higer than 30℃ or lower than 28℃. The code should be like:

sensor.set_lower_limit(SET_LOWER_LIMIT_ADDR,0x01c0);
delay(10);
delay(10);


Attention

Please make sure the upper_limit is higer than the lower_limit, otherwise it will not output properly. And please make sure the critical_limit is higer than the upper_limit. A certain delay() is required to ensure that the registers are written correctly.

### Play With Raspberry Pi¶

#### Hardware¶

• Step 1. Things used in this project:
Raspberry pi Grove Base Hat for RasPi Grove - I2C High Accuracy Temperature Sensor
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• Step 2. Plug the Grove Base Hat into Raspberry.
• Step 3. Connect the Grove - I2C High Accuracy Temperature Sensor to I2C port of the Base Hat.
• Step 4. Connect the Raspberry Pi to PC through USB cable.

#### Software¶

• Step 1. Follow Setting Software to configure the development environment.
• Step 2. Download the source file by cloning the grove.py library.
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/Seeed-Studio/grove.py

• Step 3. Excute below commands to run the code.
cd grove.py/grove
python grove_high_accuracy_temperature.py


Following is the grove_high_accuracy_temperature.py code.

import sys
import time
from grove.factory import Factory
from grove.temperature import Temper

def main():
print("Insert Grove - I2C-High-Accuracy-Temperature")
print("  to Grove-Base-Hat any I2C slot")

sensor = Factory.getTemper("MCP9808-I2C")
sensor.resolution(Temper.RES_1_16_CELSIUS)

print('Detecting temperature...')
while True:
print('{} Celsius'.format(sensor.temperature))
time.sleep(1)

if __name__ == '__main__':
main()


Success

If everything goes well, you will be able to see the following result

pi@raspberrypi:~/grove.py/grove \$ python grove_high_accuracy_temperature.py
Insert Grove - I2C-High-Accuracy-Temperature
to Grove-Base-Hat any I2C slot
Detecting temperature...
24.5 Celsius
24.5 Celsius
24.375 Celsius
^CTraceback (most recent call last):
File "grove_high_accuracy_temperature.py", line 54, in <module>
main()
File "grove_high_accuracy_temperature.py", line 50, in main
time.sleep(1)
KeyboardInterrupt


You can quit this program by simply press Ctrl+C.

## Project¶

This is the introduction Video of this product, simple demos, you can have a try.

## Tech Support¶

Please do not hesitate to submit the issue into our forum.