Hello! I just started playing around with the raspberry pi and not very familiar with the environment yet. Does anyone know why my grove sound sensor cannot detect any sound? I’ve tested my sensor with many types of sound, but still, it doesn’t detect anything. I also used another grove sound sensors for the testing but they still produced the same results. The coding that I used for the testing was from the grove sound sensor documentation (grove_sound_sensor.py)
Hello @salman, I’m using the Grove Sound Sensor. I bought the sensor from this website https://my.cytron.io/p-grove-sound-sensor?r=1
@Arif_Zakwan How do you connecting the grove sound sensor to the raspberry pi? via Grove Base Hat or using jumpers? also, did you download and run the grove.py library sound sensor example?
@salman I use the GrovePi+ to connect my grove sound sensor to the raspberry pi. Yes, I did download and run the sample coding provided in the grove.py library to test my sound sensor. However, my sound sensor is still not working.
@Arif_Zakwan can you please show the full error you getting, when running the python example scripts?
@salman Oh, there is no error found at all after running the sample coding. But from my observations, I noticed that the grove sound sensors that I used are not very sensitive to the environment. Sometimes the sensors can detect the sound in the environment but mostly the sensors don’t work at all.
can you try to read the sensor value with Arduino too and compare with raspberry pi readings, for understanding the problem!
@salman Too bad I don’t have an Arduino board because the project that I’m currently working on for my class required me to use the raspberry pi only.
@Arif_Zakwan, In my opinion, there might be two possible reasons, one with the grove module issue and another one with baseboard issue if we have an Arduino we can take sample reading and compare with the raspberry pi reading!
@salman I see. Thank you for giving me some advice! I will try to figure out some solutions regarding the problems.
also please share the solution here, if you found it. Thanks.
Sure! I will update anything in here.
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