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17.Dd December 28, 2017
18.Dt AM2315TEMP 4
19.Os
20.Sh NAME
21.Nm am2315temp
22.Nd Driver for Aosong AM2315 sensor chip via I2C bus
23.Sh SYNOPSIS
24.Cd "am2315temp* at iic? addr 0x5c"
25.Sh DESCRIPTION
26The
27.Nm
28driver provides measurements from the AM2315 humidity/temperature
29sensors via the
30.Xr envsys 4
31framework.
32The
33.Nm
34.Ar addr
35argument selects the address at the
36.Xr iic 4
37bus.
38The AM2315 has limits on how often the measurements can be read.
39Adjustments to the number of times to take reading before considering
40it valid, and the number of ticks to wait between readings can be
41changed through
42.Xr sysctl 8
43nodes.
44.Pp
45There are other oddities about the AM2315 that should be mentioned.
46The datasheet says that the device should read no more often then
47every 2 seconds, further, it also implies that a measurement is not
48performed until the device is 1) awake 2) has been asked for a
49measurement.
50From observation, it has been noted that it is possible
51to ask for measurements more often than every 2 seconds, and actually
52get something that looks to be valid.
53It may, in fact, be valid, but
54it has also been noted that the measurements do not appear to change.
55This implies that a measurement was done, and then returned time and
56time again.
57It has also been noticed that if measurements are taken
58very close to every 2 seconds, that sometimes the device will return a
59I2C error on a read.
60If this happens a lot, increase hw.am2315temp0.readticks a bit.
61.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES
62The following
63.Xr sysctl 3
64variables are provided:
65.Bl -tag -width indent
66.It hw.am2315temp0.readcount
67The number of times to take a reading before considering it valid.
68This defaults to 2.
69.It hw.am2315temp0.readticks
70The number of ticks to wait in between readings.
71The default is 100.
72.It hw.am2315temp0.debug
73If the driver is compiled with
74.Dv AM2315_DEBUG ,
75this node will appear and can be used to set the debugging level.
76.El
77.Sh SEE ALSO
78.Xr envsys 4 ,
79.Xr iic 4 ,
80.Xr envstat 8 ,
81.Xr sysctl 8
82.Sh HISTORY
83The
84.Nm
85driver first appeared in
86.Nx 8.0 .
87.Sh AUTHORS
88.An -nosplit
89The
90.Nm
91driver was written by
92.An Brad Spencer Aq Mt brad@anduin.eldar.org .
93.Sh BUGS
94The device does not appear to work with the
95.Xr gpioiic 4
96bitbang controller.
97When tried, reads would not error, but no data was returned.
98