“I didn't get the little display to work until I bolted the Enviro+ together to the Raspberry Pi Zero W v1.1 that as explained above. Both Enviro+ and PMS5003 supply all their data. It now works perfectly for all of the enviroplus-python directory's applications. Neither did the PMS5003 issue any data. Now all data is displayed and I like using "python combined.py" that shows all data all the time.
I really can't get something in the Phil King article in Magpi Issue 92, p. 66-69 where on p.68 it shows (top left) how to get the diagram working. I see others have raised issues abut that in Pimoroni, too.
I am intending to try to run it outside with a Lithium Polymer Battery 3.7V and 6500mAh that will be being recharged by an Adafruit solar panel (13.5 cm x 11 cm) that provides 6V and 2W. For 2-3 years 2009-2012, I used that approach for building and running a Raspberry Pi original version that was taking photos once every hour of birds on a garden birdbath. Obviously, every few days, I also had to recharge the Lithium Polymer Battery. I still have a plastic box I used that contains the Lithium Polymer battery and a tiny circuit board (Adafruit) that lets the solar panel charge the battery, but also allows a mains plug cable to be plugged in to recharge the battery. Our house doesn't have any outside mains socket and I don't want one. I also feel feeding mains cables out of a window is not safe.”
“The GPIO header on my original unit was not fully soldered when I received it. I sent a message over to Pimoroni and received a quick and helpful response. They'll be shipping out a new unit and allowed me to keep the original one to see if I can fix it.
I also have a few other items from Pimoroni such as the unicorn pHat and the Unicorn Hat HD which are really fun. We use them with a simple API to add visual alerting when one of our systems/sites has a problem.
The quality of the boards is always (except this one time) fantastic, very aesthetically pleasing, and the documentation and libraries are very well written and easy to follow.”
