cable length for Grove sensors & using with GrovePi

I just bought a few Grove sensors an want to use them on a distance from my Raspberry Pi. I got a GrovePi for connecting the sensors on the RaspberryPi, but the cables are only about 20 cm long. I need to place the sensors a lot further away from the Raspberry Pi. So this are my questions:

  1. how long can the cable be for connecting the following sensors:

                     * Grove Dust Sensor ([url]http://www.seeedstudio.com/wiki/Grove_-_Dust_Sensor[/url])
    
  1. which cables should I use?

                     * standard telephone cable (4 wire, 0,7 mm², unshielded)
    
  • CAT 5e UTP cable (4 twisted pairs, unshielded)

  • shielded CAT 5e UTP cable (4 twisted pairs, shielded)

  • CAT 6e UTP cable (4 twisted pairs, unshielded)

  • shielded CAT 6e UTP cable (4 twisted pairs, shielded)

  1. Are there any Python sample codes available for reading the sensors? All examples I find are written for Arduino and not usable with a Raspberry Pi.

1 Grove products can’t work via those long cables.

2 We don’t have those cables, so we couldn’t show you our suggestion.

3 We do have some libraries for Raspberry Pi, please visit github.com/Seeed-Studio/Grove-RaspberryPi

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