HX711 reading value

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Hello,

I have sucessfully calibrated my HX711 sensor and everything is working OK so far. Because I will put a beehive on my bord with hx711 and load sensors, I need to read values at anytime without lifting beehive from a board. Because beehive is on remote location without electricity I will use 9V battery and ON/OFF switch.
So everything will be turned off all the time and when I need to measuere the weight, I will simply turn the board on and read a value from LCD.

The problem is that if the beehive is on the board while system is booting (setting up), I cannot read anything from sensor at all. And yes, I remove tare() function.

Thanks for help and best regards,

Jure

Here is my simple project without a LCD so far:

#include "HX711.h"

HX711 scale(4, 3);

float calibration_factor = -26;


void setup() {
  Serial.begin(9600);
  //scale.tare();  
  scale.set_scale(calibration_factor);
}

void loop() {

 // Serial.print("Reading: ");
  units = scale.get_units(), 10;

  if (units < 0)
    units = 0.00;

  Serial.print(units);
  Serial.print(" grams\n"); 

}
2

You should call the begin() method of the HX711 object within setup().

The problem is that if the beehive is on the board while system is booting (setting up), I cannot read anything from sensor at all.

What does that mean? The sketch doesn't have any output on the serial monitor?