Suitable for measuring ambient temperature, barometric pressure, and humidity, the BME280 is a great indoor environmental sensor.

You must enable:

• 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.

Stable library from PyPi, the smbus library is also needed:

• Just run python3 -m pip install pimoroni-bme280

Latest/development library from GitHub:

• git clone https://github.com/pimoroni/bme280-python
• cd bme280-python
• sudo ./install.sh