Adafruit_DHT error in dh11.py from Lesson 7 (room temp and humidity)

gbarwis · December 2022

I'm working through the lessons for CrowPi v2, and am on Lesson 7 ("Detect room temperature and humidity") which uses the DH11 module. When I try to run dh11.py, however, I get the following output:

pi@raspberrypi:~/Desktop/CrowPi/Examples $ sudo python dh11.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "dh11.py", line 33, in 
    humidity, temperature = Adafruit_DHT.read_retry(sensor, pin)
  File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/Adafruit_DHT/common.py", line 94, in read_retry
  File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/Adafruit_DHT/common.py", line 80, in read
  File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/Adafruit_DHT/common.py", line 60, in get_platform
  File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/Adafruit_DHT/Beaglebone_Black.py", line 24, in 
ImportError: cannot import name Beaglebone_Black_Driver
pi@raspberrypi:~/Desktop/CrowPi/Examples $

How can I resolve this? I am unfortunately not terribly familiar with either linux or python, so I have quickly reached the limits of my troubleshooting abilities.

Elecrow · December 2022

@gbarwis Hi there, please try
sudo python3 dh11.py

gbarwis · December 2022

Ah, that worked, thanks! It also worked for a few of the later lessons that were getting Adafruit errors.

Adafruit_DHT error in dh11.py from Lesson 7 (room temp and humidity)

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