Packaged sensors?

Other Hardware Sensors
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I have successfully used the Arduino development to read from Temperature / Humidity / Lux sensors. I would like to deploy those in my house, the problem is they're modules, so I need to put them in some form of a package, and I am not even sure what kind of packaging I can use, or if it will affect the sensor readings.

Is there a manufacturer that makes Arduino sensors that are in nice deplorable packages (install it in my home ceiling for instance)

Thanks,
Derek

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You mean something like M5Stack?

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Thanks Pylon. Yes that is what I am looking for. I wonder if you know a fancier company with like a tri-sensor units.

Many thanks for the help.

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DerekJ:
nice deplorable

Make your mind up, Derek! :wink:

Here are my indoor temp/humidity sensors, if you are interested.

I have not made any inside indoor lux sensors (I'm curious why you want to do that) but have made an outdoor one, I'll attach some pics.

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Bh1750

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Bh1750

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PaulRB:
Make your mind up, Derek! :wink:

Here are my indoor temp/humidity sensors, if you are interested.

I have not made any inside indoor lux sensors (I'm curious why you want to do that) but have made an outdoor one, I'll attach some pics.

Ha! Nice catch that was supposed to be "deployable" of course!.

Nice project. 2 Questions:

  1. Where did you get that cover for your Temp/Humidity sensor?
  2. How is it that the light sensor not affected by the white plastic cover or does that end up being a calibration task?
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I purchased the small project boxes with the ventilation slots from eBay a few years back.

Yes, I apply a factor to the lux reading to compensate for the dome, which I calibrated using a fixed light source, taking a reading with and without the dome in place. It would have been better to have done this many times over using different fixed light sources at different distances and angles from the sensor, and taken an average.