MICS6814 Breakout Garden Breakout

Installing

Pre-requisites

You must enable i2c:

• i2c: sudo raspi-config nonint do_i2c 0

You can optionally run sudo raspi-config or the graphical Raspberry Pi Configuration UI to enable interfaces.

Full install (recommended):

We've created an easy installation script that will install all pre-requisites and get your BH1745 up and running with minimal efforts. To run it, fire up Terminal which you'll find in Menu -> Accessories -> Terminal on your Raspberry Pi desktop, as illustrated below:

In the new terminal window type the command exactly as it appears below (check for typos) and follow the on-screen instructions:

Stable library and dependencies from GitHub:

• git clone https://github.com/pimoroni/mics6814-python
• cd mics6814-python
• sudo ./install.sh

Latest/development library and dependencies from GitHub:

• git clone https://github.com/pimoroni/mics6814-python
• cd mics6814-python
• sudo ./install.sh --unstable

Note Libraries will be installed in the "pimoroni" virtual environment, you will need to activate it to run examples:

source ~/.virtualenvs/pimoroni/bin/activate

Stable (library only) from PyPi:

• In your Python Virtual Environment, run pip install pimoroni-mics6814