BMP085 wrong temperature measurments

Using Arduino Sensors
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Hi
I have hooked up this cool sensor and used calculation as suggested by the datasheet. But the result is way off . I suppose problem has to be in type of the variables , but cannot find the cause... pls help

readout of the calibration values dec/hex:
ac5 = 25186 / 0x6262
ac6 = 17528 / 0x4478
mc = -11075 / 0xD4BD
md = 9 / 0x0009

long x1, x2, b5;
unsigned int ac5, ac6;
int mc, md, temperature;

x1 = ((ut - ac6) * ac5) >> 15;
x2 = ((long)mc << 11)/(x1 + md);
b5 = x1 + x2;
temperature = ((b5 + 8 )>>4);

ut=25343/0x62FF
x1=6006/0x00001776
x2=-3770/0xFFFFF146
b5=2236/0x000008BC
temperature = 140/0x008C (this means 14.0°C ? )

Real temperature is 20,7°C at this moment

tnx for your help
Janez

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Perhaps you have seen the Adafruit BMP085 Unified driver? It's a really solid driver, I've been using it for a while and always get readings within +/-3*C. I posted the link to the github repo below. You might want to look over the code and compare it with your implementation, although I recommend not reinventing the wheel (it's an anti-pattern).

Just put it in your sketches folder. If you need anyhelp understanding the code, I'd be more than willing to help :).

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Please post your whole code so we can reproduce the problem.

Sparkfun has a demo sketch here - Barometric Pressure Sensor - BMP085 Breakout - SEN-09694 - SparkFun Electronics - don't know if it works.

4

code is writen in c
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14031284/bmp085/BMP085.c
in my first post there is everything needed for temperature calc.
hope it helps

5

That is no arduino code and a possible cause could be that an int is 32 bit on that platform.

So try to make all variables long (32 bit on arduino) and give your code a try.

6

hi, changed to long and u_long where necesary
but the results stays exactly the same

7

jabi78:
hi, changed to long and u_long where necesary
but the results stays exactly the same

Did you take a look at the Adafruit driver like I posted above? I almost guarnatee it will reflect where your code is going wrong.

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i was going once again through the code, taking special attention to the variables type, with no success though. I must have been missing something obvious :confused:

this is the code copied from the

UT = 27898;
_bmp085_coeffs.ac6 = 23153;
_bmp085_coeffs.ac5 = 32757;
_bmp085_coeffs.mc = -8711;
_bmp085_coeffs.md = 2868;
#endif

// step 1
X1 = (UT - (int32_t)_bmp085_coeffs.ac6) * ((int32_t)_bmp085_coeffs.ac5) / pow(2,15); // my result = 4743
X2 = ((int32_t)_bmp085_coeffs.mc * pow(2,11)) / (X1+(int32_t)_bmp085_coeffs.md); // my result = -2343
B5 = X1 + X2; // = 2400
t = (B5+8)/pow(2,4); // = 150
t /= 10;

could someone calculate X1, X2, B5 and t variables , so i can compare and find the couse of the problem ?

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The only difference that I see between your code and the driver posted by Adafruit is that you have declared the variable temperature to be an int, whereas Adafruit declared the t variable (analogous to your temperature variable) a float. Those arithmetic operations won't always produce an integer value, so I would recommend changing that variable to a float. More than likely you are truncating the decimal value, which is why it is rounding down by one.

Give that a try! :wink:

10

You have an error in the last line!

It should be t = t * 10;

Also, here are some values from my sensor for you to play with:

ac6: 20562
ac5: 24469
mc: -11075
md: 2432
UT: 28705

x1: 6080
x2: -2664
b5: 3416
T: 214
T: 2140

Using a float variable devide by 100 to get the temperature = 21.40°C

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what is that pow(2,15) crap ?

12

Not sure if you realise, you have to read those calibration constants from the device that YOU have. Don't use the ones which appear in any example code.

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This is the code I use, I think

  int32_t  X1 = ((latest_raw_temp - (int32_t)ac6) * (int32_t)ac5) >> 15;
  int32_t  X2 = ((int32_t)mc << 11) / (X1 + (int32_t)md);
  int32_t  B5 = X1 + X2;
  float    temp = (float)((B5 + 8) >> 4);
  temp /= 10;                                   // divide by 10
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md = 9 / 0x0009

I think that it is impossible for this value for the "md" constant in the equation/model, to be correct.

15

The reason why your value for "md" is no good, is because in your ridiculous code, you read the calibration bytes 0 through 19, and then byte 21. You don't read byte 20 at all.

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michinyon:
This is the code I use, I think

  int32_t  X1 = ((latest_raw_temp - (int32_t)ac6) * (int32_t)ac5) >> 15;

int32_t  X2 = ((int32_t)mc << 11) / (X1 + (int32_t)md);
  int32_t  B5 = X1 + X2;
  float    temp = (float)((B5 + 8) >> 4);
  temp /= 10;                                   // divide by 10

That works as well. In my example I'm returning T as an int and then converting it to float / 100 for °C.

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michinyon thanks for pointing that out
i have missed byte 20, changed i from 20 -> 21
for(i=0;i<21;i++)
{
buff_BMPCAL = i2c_read(1); // Get memory

  • }*
  • buff_BMPCAL[21] = i2c_read(0); // Get last calibration byte*
    works ok now