need .py code for reading Max31855 A/D temp converter

Question

Thru this site I got info on a Adafruit Max31855 module. Now does anyone have the code necessary to read the digital output of this fine little module? I don't have the experience to write the code, but truly need the code to save a very long and steep learning curve. Don

rew · Accepted Answer

If you have a bunch of commands you do often, you can put them together in a socalled batch file. Or we call it "shell script" in the Unix-world. so you can create a file with: 
 echo The time is 
 date

in it. But the system likes to know what "interpreter" to use for this script. (there are multiple). So in this case you add: #!/bin/sh

as the first line and it uses the shell "/bin/sh". Now if you store this as test1, and then chmod 755 test1, you can execute this small program with "./test1". If, however you type: ./test2, you'll get "no such file or directory" as the error message. The confusing thing is: if the first line is wrong, you'll get the same error message. So in my example, if the first line would have been: #!/bin/sh2 the error message will also be: "./test1: no such file or directory" So... with that error message, you should take a gooooood look at the first line of your max31855 script!

mconners · Answer

Taking a second look at the RasPi SPI library, you may have to make your own 32 bit read, but everything is in the .cpp file linked above.

Take a stab at it, if you can't figure it out, post your code here and we can suggest some fixes.

Mike

mconners · Answer

sclk- GP11 miso- GP9 cs- GP8 Looking at that again, now with more time, sticking with the GPIO nomenclature that you used sclk- GP11 miso- GP9 cs- GP8 cs_pins = [8] second change: clock_pin = 11 data_pin = 9 then just run sudo ./max31855.py or sudo python max31855.py depending on whether you made the file executable or not. Let us know how it works out. It looks like it could work. Mike