BME688 - broken by too frequent reading?

[particle_argon]

Hi everyone,

I am working on a simple project with the BME688 connected to a Particle Argon board. I used as a starting point the sample code included in the Adafruit_BME680 library: https://github.com/kaga/Adafruit_BME680/blob/master/examples/usage/bme680_example.ino

Everything has been working great, but today due to a coding error, my code was polling the sensor (calling bme.performReading()) every 20ms instead of every 5 seconds as I had it before. It ran in this mode for ~3 minutes before I realized what was happening and powered it off.

Afterwards, I'm getting wrong temperature and humidity readings, with the temperature always returned as 151.43 degrees, and the humidity always 0%.

Is it possible that I broke the sensor, or is there some way to reset it?

Thanks for any help.

[BSTRobin · Accepted solution]

Hello particle_argon,

You could run official reference code on you board and check it again.
https://github.com/BoschSensortec/BSEC-Arduino-library/tree/master/examples

[particle_argon]

Thanks for your feedback! I tried again after letting the sensor rest overnight, and the readings were back to normal. Not sure what happened, but seems to be OK now.

[BSTRobin]

Hello particle_argon,

Good news.