BME680 Breakout - Air Quality, Temperature, Pressure, Humidity Sensor

Name: BME680 Breakout - Air Quality, Temperature, Pressure, Humidity Sensor
Brand: Pimoroni
SKU: PIM357
Price: 18.90 GBP
Availability: InStock

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The state-of-the-art BME680 breakout lets you measure temperature, pressure, humidity, and indoor air quality, and is Raspberry Pi and Arduino-compatible!

Use this breakout to monitor every aspect of your indoor environment. Its gas resistance readings will react to changes in volatile organic compounds and can be combined with humidity readings to give a measure of indoor air quality.

Want to get an idea of whether there's adequate ventilation in your bedroom, your workshop, or workplace? Set up a BME680 on a Pi Zero W and have it log sensor readings to a file, or stream live data to a web service like adafruit.io or freeboard.io.

This breakout is compatible with our fancy Breakout Garden system, where using breakouts is as easy just popping it into one of the slots and starting to grow your project, create, and code. It's also Qw/ST compatible so it can be plugged into a whole range of different microcontrollers and HATs with Qwiic or STEMMA QT connectors.

Features

Bosch BME680 temperature, pressure, humidity, air quality sensor
I2C interface, with address select via ADDR solder bridge (0x76 or 0x77)
Qwiic/STEMMA QT connector (on boards manufactured from November 2021 onwards)
3.3V or 5V compatible
Reverse polarity protection
Raspberry Pi-compatible pinout (pins 1, 3, 5, 7, 9)
Compatible with Raspberry Pi (Python library)
Compatible with Arduino
Compatible with Raspberry Pi Pico (C++/MicroPython libraries).
Datasheet

Kit includes

BME680 breakout
1x5 male header
1x5 female right angle header

We've designed this breakout board so that you can solder on the piece of right angle female header and pop it straight onto the bottom left 5 pins on your Raspberry Pi's GPIO header (pins 1, 3, 5, 7, 9). The right angle header also has the advantage of positioning the breakout away from the Pi's CPU so as to minimise radiated heat.

Software

As well as the C library provided by Bosch, we've put together a Python library (with a quick and painless one-line-installer) to use with your BME680, making it straightforward to combine it with our other boards (why not use a Blinkt! or Unicorn pHAT to visualise air quality in real time?)

Notes

In our testing, we've found that the sensor requires some burn-in time (at least 20 minutes) and that readings may take a couple of minutes to stabilise after beginning measurements
The solder pads (marked ADDR) can be bridged to change the I2C address from the default of 0x76 to 0x77, meaning that you can use up to two sensors on the same Raspberry Pi or Arduino
The BME280, BME680, and BMP280 breakouts all share the same I2C addresses, so if you're using two together then you'll need to change the I2C address on one of them using the solder bridge/pads
Dimensions: 19x19x2.75mm (LxWxH)

91 customer reviews

a year ago

I use it for a personal project to monitor the temperature and humidity in my apartment and it works perfectly!

by Alessio about BME680 Breakout - Air Quality, Temperature, Pressure, Humidity Sensor via REVIEWS.io

a year ago

GREAT sensor. The code is a bit confusing to me honestly but its a powerful device so that's expected. There are plenty of examples out there that have got me going and getting accurate results. Love these guys, would love to see the next generation (past 688) in terms of accuracy and capabilities with STEMMA if that ever is in the road map! I'll buy a bunch I know that! Especially around the Air Quality Inidcation (AQI) that seems to be very tricky to get right and I have seen many struggle with that. That's probably more on the chip maker than you guys to simplify. I personally would like to see something that maybe replaces the pressure portion with something more useful to me, say fire indication or something I don't know. Honestly I dont care about the pressure, I dont even code it as an output most of the time. But this is just one guy giving his thoughts. Love the product! Cheers.

by Federico about BME680 Breakout - Air Quality, Temperature, Pressure, Humidity Sensor via REVIEWS.io

a year ago

As expected

by Anonymous about BME680 Breakout - Air Quality, Temperature, Pressure, Humidity Sensor via REVIEWS.io

a year ago

by Miloslav about BME680 Breakout - Air Quality, Temperature, Pressure, Humidity Sensor via REVIEWS.io

2 years ago

Fitted easily, installed with node-red in minutes!

by Anonymous about BME680 Breakout - Air Quality, Temperature, Pressure, Humidity Sensor via REVIEWS.io

2 years ago

Grea breakout

by Ghaffari about BME680 Breakout - Air Quality, Temperature, Pressure, Humidity Sensor via REVIEWS.io

2 years ago

We required a breakout sensor that was suitable for use with a raspberry pi. After a quick search the BME680 was identified as the correct one. Order was quick and easy. Product arrived next day without fuss. We have since ordered again and will continue to do so.

by Neil about BME680 Breakout - Air Quality, Temperature, Pressure, Humidity Sensor via REVIEWS.io

2 years ago

Having used the BME280 for a couple of projects, I thought I'd try a 680, noting that I'd coded the BME280 the hard way and not used the Arduino libraries. I gave in and used the AdaFruit libraries for the 680. So easy to integrate with an ESP8266 Node D1 (12F, AZ-Delivery) WiFi module. Air quality is the most interesting with this sensor, although all you measure is sensor resistance based on VoC content (constant heater temperature and duration). I have connected one device to the Arduino IoT Cloud (15 day history subscription) and the graphs from the living room are quite interesting, for me anyway. One take-away (pun) is that meals have a significant effect.

by Douglas about BME680 Breakout - Air Quality, Temperature, Pressure, Humidity Sensor via REVIEWS.io

2 years ago

Great set of sensors in a small package - and very easy to use from an Arduino.

by Gordon about BME680 Breakout - Air Quality, Temperature, Pressure, Humidity Sensor via REVIEWS.io

2 years ago

Very pleased with the breakout garden system overall, which, with the likes of this sensor, is giving me an easy way to learn more about Python and environmental monitoring & logging data.

by Anonymous about BME680 Breakout - Air Quality, Temperature, Pressure, Humidity Sensor via REVIEWS.io

3 years ago

Excellent especially when used with the BOSCH libraries for arduino

by Anonymous about BME680 Breakout - Air Quality, Temperature, Pressure, Humidity Sensor via REVIEWS.io

3 years ago

Worked out of box with project. I am into atmospheric sensing and experiments.

by Nigel about BME680 Breakout - Air Quality, Temperature, Pressure, Humidity Sensor via REVIEWS.io

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The state-of-the-art BME680 breakout lets you measure temperature, pressure, humidity, and indoor air quality, and is Raspberry Pi and Arduino-compatible!

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