This is the description of the Perl API bindings for the Humidity Bricklet. General information and technical specifications for the Humidity Bricklet are summarized in its hardware description.
An installation guide for the Perl API bindings is part of their general description.
The example code below is Public Domain (CC0 1.0).
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 | #!/usr/bin/perl
use Tinkerforge::IPConnection;
use Tinkerforge::BrickletHumidity;
use constant HOST => 'localhost';
use constant PORT => 4223;
use constant UID => '7bA'; # Change to your UID
my $ipcon = Tinkerforge::IPConnection->new(); # Create IP connection
my $h = Tinkerforge::BrickletHumidity->new(&UID, $ipcon); # Create device object
$ipcon->connect(&HOST, &PORT); # Connect to brickd
# Don't use device before ipcon is connected
# Get current humidity (unit is %RH/10)
my $rh = $h->get_humidity()/10.0;
print "Relative Humidity: $rh RH%\n";
print "Press any key to exit...\n";
<STDIN>;
$ipcon->disconnect();
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Download (example_callback.pl)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 | #!/usr/bin/perl
use Tinkerforge::IPConnection;
use Tinkerforge::BrickletHumidity;
use constant HOST => 'localhost';
use constant PORT => 4223;
use constant UID => '7bA'; # Change to your UID
my $ipcon = Tinkerforge::IPConnection->new(); # Create IP connection
my $h = Tinkerforge::BrickletHumidity->new(&UID, $ipcon); # Create device object
# Callback function for humidity callback (parameter has unit %RH/10)
sub cb_humidity
{
my ($rh) = @_;
print "Relative Humidity: ".$rh/10.0." RH%\n";
}
$ipcon->connect(&HOST, &PORT); # Connect to brickd
# Don't use device before ipcon is connected
# Set Period for rh callback to 1s (1000ms)
# Note: The callback is only called every second if the
# humidity has changed since the last call!
$h->set_humidity_callback_period(1000);
# Register humidity callback to function cb_humidity
$h->register_callback($h->CALLBACK_HUMIDITY, 'cb_humidity');
print "Press any key to exit...\n";
<STDIN>;
$ipcon->disconnect();
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Download (example_threshold.pl)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 | #!/usr/bin/perl
use Tinkerforge::IPConnection;
use Tinkerforge::BrickletHumidity;
use constant HOST => 'localhost';
use constant PORT => 4223;
use constant UID => '7bA'; # Change to your UID
my $ipcon = Tinkerforge::IPConnection->new(); # Create IP connection
my $h = Tinkerforge::BrickletHumidity->new(&UID, $ipcon); # Create device object
# Callback function for humidity callback (parameter has unit %RH/10)
sub cb_reached
{
my ($humidity) = @_;
if ($humidity < 30*10)
{
print "Humidity too low: ".$humidity/10.0." RH%\n";
}
elsif ($humidity > 60*10)
{
print "Humidity too high: ".$humidity/10.0." RH%\n";
}
print "Recommended humiditiy for human comfort is 30 to 60 %RH.\n";
}
$ipcon->connect(&HOST, &PORT); # Connect to brickd
# Don't use device before ipcon is connected
# Get threshold callbacks with a debounce time of 10 seconds (10000ms)
$h->set_debounce_period(100);
# Register threshold reached callback to function cb_reached
$h->register_callback($h->CALLBACK_HUMIDITY_REACHED, 'cb_reached');
# Configure threshold for "outside of 30 to 60 %RH" (unit is %RH/10)
$h->set_humidity_callback_threshold('o', 30*10, 60*10);
print "Press any key to exit...\n";
<STDIN>;
$ipcon->disconnect();
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Generally, every subroutine of the Perl bindings can report an error as Tinkerforge::Error object via croak(). The object has a get_code() and a get_message() subroutine. There are different error code:
All methods listed below are thread-safe.
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Return type: | BrickletHumidity |
Creates an object with the unique device ID $uid:
$humidity = BrickletHumidity->new("YOUR_DEVICE_UID", $ipcon);
This object can then be used after the IP Connection is connected (see examples above).
Return type: | int |
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Returns the humidity of the sensor. The value has a range of 0 to 1000 and is given in %RH/10 (Relative Humidity), i.e. a value of 421 means that a humidity of 42.1 %RH is measured.
If you want to get the humidity periodically, it is recommended to use the callback CALLBACK_HUMIDITY and set the period with set_humidity_callback_period().
Return type: | int |
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Returns the value as read by a 12-bit analog-to-digital converter. The value is between 0 and 4095.
Note
The value returned by get_humidity() is averaged over several samples to yield less noise, while get_analog_value() gives back raw unfiltered analog values. The returned humidity value is calibrated for room temperatures, if you use the sensor in extreme cold or extreme warm environments, you might want to calculate the humidity from the analog value yourself. See the HIH 5030 datasheet.
If you want the analog value periodically, it is recommended to use the callback CALLBACK_ANALOG_VALUE and set the period with set_analog_value_callback_period().
Return type: | [int, int, int] |
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Returns the version of the API definition (major, minor, revision) implemented by this API bindings. This is neither the release version of this API bindings nor does it tell you anything about the represented Brick or Bricklet.
Parameters: | $function_id -- int |
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Return type: | bool |
Returns the response expected flag for the function specified by the function ID parameter. It is true if the function is expected to send a response, false otherwise.
For getter functions this is enabled by default and cannot be disabled, because those functions will always send a response. For callback configuration functions it is enabled by default too, but can be disabled by set_response_expected(). For setter functions it is disabled by default and can be enabled.
Enabling the response expected flag for a setter function allows to detect timeouts and other error conditions calls of this setter as well. The device will then send a response for this purpose. If this flag is disabled for a setter function then no response is send and errors are silently ignored, because they cannot be detected.
See set_response_expected() for the list of function ID constants available for this function.
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Return type: | undef |
Changes the response expected flag of the function specified by the function ID parameter. This flag can only be changed for setter (default value: false) and callback configuration functions (default value: true). For getter functions it is always enabled and callbacks it is always disabled.
Enabling the response expected flag for a setter function allows to detect timeouts and other error conditions calls of this setter as well. The device will then send a response for this purpose. If this flag is disabled for a setter function then no response is send and errors are silently ignored, because they cannot be detected.
The following function ID constants are available for this function:
Parameters: | $response_expected -- bool |
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Return type: | undef |
Changes the response expected flag for all setter and callback configuration functions of this device at once.
Return type: | [string, string, char, [int, int, int], [int, int, int], int] |
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Returns the UID, the UID where the Bricklet is connected to, the position, the hardware and firmware version as well as the device identifier.
The position can be 'a', 'b', 'c' or 'd'.
The device identifier numbers can be found here. There is also a constant for the device identifier of this Bricklet.
The returned array contains the elements uid, connected_uid, position, hardware_version, firmware_version and device_identifier.
Parameters: |
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Return type: | undef |
Registers a callback with ID $id to the function named $callback. The available IDs with corresponding function signatures are listed below.
Parameters: | $period -- int |
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Return type: | undef |
Sets the period in ms with which the CALLBACK_HUMIDITY callback is triggered periodically. A value of 0 turns the callback off.
CALLBACK_HUMIDITY is only triggered if the humidity has changed since the last triggering.
The default value is 0.
Return type: | int |
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Returns the period as set by set_humidity_callback_period().
Parameters: | $period -- int |
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Return type: | undef |
Sets the period in ms with which the CALLBACK_ANALOG_VALUE callback is triggered periodically. A value of 0 turns the callback off.
CALLBACK_ANALOG_VALUE is only triggered if the analog value has changed since the last triggering.
The default value is 0.
Return type: | int |
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Returns the period as set by set_analog_value_callback_period().
Parameters: |
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Return type: | undef |
Sets the thresholds for the CALLBACK_HUMIDITY_REACHED callback.
The following options are possible:
Option | Description |
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'x' | Callback is turned off |
'o' | Callback is triggered when the humidity is outside the min and max values |
'i' | Callback is triggered when the humidity is inside the min and max values |
'<' | Callback is triggered when the humidity is smaller than the min value (max is ignored) |
'>' | Callback is triggered when the humidity is greater than the min value (max is ignored) |
The default value is ('x', 0, 0).
The following constants are available for this function:
Return type: | [char, int, int] |
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Returns the threshold as set by set_humidity_callback_threshold().
The following constants are available for this function:
The returned array contains the elements option, min and max.
Parameters: |
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Return type: | undef |
Sets the thresholds for the CALLBACK_ANALOG_VALUE_REACHED callback.
The following options are possible:
Option | Description |
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'x' | Callback is turned off |
'o' | Callback is triggered when the analog value is outside the min and max values |
'i' | Callback is triggered when the analog value is inside the min and max values |
'<' | Callback is triggered when the analog value is smaller than the min value (max is ignored) |
'>' | Callback is triggered when the analog value is greater than the min value (max is ignored) |
The default value is ('x', 0, 0).
The following constants are available for this function:
Return type: | [char, int, int] |
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Returns the threshold as set by set_analog_value_callback_threshold().
The following constants are available for this function:
The returned array contains the elements option, min and max.
Parameters: | $debounce -- int |
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Return type: | undef |
Sets the period in ms with which the threshold callbacks
are triggered, if the thresholds
keep being reached.
The default value is 100.
Return type: | int |
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Returns the debounce period as set by set_debounce_period().
Callbacks can be registered to receive time critical or recurring data from the device. The registration is done with the register_callback() function of the device object. The first parameter is the callback ID and the second parameter the callback function name:
sub my_callback
{
print "@_[0]";
}
$humidity->register_callback(BrickletHumidity->CALLBACK_EXAMPLE, 'my_callback')
The callback function will be called from an internal thread of the IP Connection. In contrast to many other programming languages, variables are not automatically shared between threads in Perl. If you want to share a global variable between a callback function and the rest for your program it has to be marked as :shared. See the documentation of the threads::shared Perl module for more details.
The available constants with inherent number and type of parameters are described below.
Note
Using callbacks for recurring events is always preferred compared to using getters. It will use less USB bandwidth and the latency will be a lot better, since there is no round trip time.
Parameters: | $humidity -- int |
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This callback is triggered periodically with the period that is set by set_humidity_callback_period(). The parameter is the humidity of the sensor.
CALLBACK_HUMIDITY is only triggered if the humidity has changed since the last triggering.
Parameters: | $value -- int |
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This callback is triggered periodically with the period that is set by set_analog_value_callback_period(). The parameter is the analog value of the sensor.
CALLBACK_ANALOG_VALUE is only triggered if the humidity has changed since the last triggering.
Parameters: | $humidity -- int |
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This callback is triggered when the threshold as set by set_humidity_callback_threshold() is reached. The parameter is the humidity of the sensor.
If the threshold keeps being reached, the callback is triggered periodically with the period as set by set_debounce_period().
Parameters: | $value -- int |
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This callback is triggered when the threshold as set by set_analog_value_callback_threshold() is reached. The parameter is the analog value of the sensor.
If the threshold keeps being reached, the callback is triggered periodically with the period as set by set_debounce_period().
This constant is used to identify a Humidity Bricklet.
The get_identity() function and the CALLBACK_ENUMERATE callback of the IP Connection have a device_identifier parameter to specify the Brick's or Bricklet's type.