Thingy:91 Trying to disable BME680 sensor in Zephyr

[Hetsh]

I'm building an LTE device that only needs the GPS, LTE, motion, and button.

I'm trying as the first step to disable all the sensors that are not needed so that I don't send unneeded data to the cloud. Latter will have to eliminate their FW code from the project.

I could successfully eliminate the light sensor data using Configure nRF connect SDK project GUI and the GPS and everything else works fine, but when I tried to disable the BME680 sensor from Zephyr Kernel I had a strange situation where the GPS is not sending to the cloud and the button although I did not touch them in the GUI.

Best Regards,

HeTsH (Hesham) 

[Hetsh]

Thank you Didrik,

Bellow is the prj.conf and this only makes the connection and no message shows on the terminal

:

#
# Copyright (c) 2019 Nordic Semiconductor ASA
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-BSD-5-Clause-Nordic
#
# General config
CONFIG_NEWLIB_LIBC=y
CONFIG_NEWLIB_LIBC_FLOAT_PRINTF=y
CONFIG_ASSERT=y
CONFIG_REBOOT=y
CONFIG_LOG=y
CONFIG_LOG_IMMEDIATE=y

# Network
CONFIG_NETWORKING=y
CONFIG_NET_NATIVE=n
CONFIG_NET_SOCKETS=y
CONFIG_NET_SOCKETS_OFFLOAD=y

# LTE link control
CONFIG_POWER_OPTIMIZATION_ENABLE=n
#CONFIG_POWER_OPTIMIZATION_ENABLE=y
CONFIG_LTE_LINK_CONTROL=y
CONFIG_LTE_NETWORK_MODE_LTE_M_GPS=y
CONFIG_LTE_AUTO_INIT_AND_CONNECT=n
CONFIG_LTE_LINK_CONTROL_LOG_LEVEL_DBG=y

CONFIG_LTE_NETWORK_MODE_NBIOT_GPS=n
CONFIG_LTE_LEGACY_PCO_MODE=n
CONFIG_LTE_PSM_REQ_RPTAU="00000110"
CONFIG_LTE_PSM_REQ_RAT="00000010"

# Modem info
CONFIG_MODEM_INFO=y

# BSD library
CONFIG_BSD_LIBRARY=y
CONFIG_BSD_LIBRARY_TRACE_ENABLED=n

# nRF Cloud
CONFIG_CLOUD_API=y
CONFIG_NRF_CLOUD=y
CONFIG_NRF_CLOUD_LOG_LEVEL_DBG=y
CONFIG_NRF_CLOUD_AGPS=y
CONFIG_NRF_CLOUD_CONNECTION_POLL_THREAD=y
CONFIG_NRF_CLOUD_NONBLOCKING_SEND=y
# Needed for the cloud codec
CONFIG_CJSON_LIB=y
# Shorter to prevent NAT timeouts
CONFIG_MQTT_KEEPALIVE=120
# Don't resubscribe to topics if broker remembers them
CONFIG_CLOUD_PERSISTENT_SESSIONS=y

# Sensors
CONFIG_ACCEL_USE_SIM=y
#CONFIG_TEMP_USE_SIM=n
#CONFIG_CLOUD_BUTTON=y
CONFIG_TEMP_USE_SIM=y
CONFIG_CLOUD_BUTTON=n

# GPS
CONFIG_NRF9160_GPS=y
# CONFIG_GPS_USE_SIM=y
CONFIG_NRF9160_GPS_LOG_LEVEL_DBG=y
CONFIG_GPS_USE_EXTERNAL=y
CONFIG_GPS_DEV_NAME="NRF9160_GPS"
CONFIG_GPS_CONTROL_PSM_ENABLE_ON_START=y

CONFIG_GPS_CONTROL_FIRST_FIX_CHECK_DELAY=10
CONFIG_GPS_CONTROL_FIX_CHECK_INTERVAL=30
CONFIG_GPS_CONTROL_FIX_TRY_TIME=180
CONFIG_GPS_CONTROL_PSM_DISABLE_ON_STOP=n

# Library for buttons and LEDs
CONFIG_DK_LIBRARY=y
CONFIG_DK_LIBRARY_INVERT_LEDS=n

# Console
CONFIG_CONSOLE_SUBSYS=y
CONFIG_CONSOLE_HANDLER=y
CONFIG_CONSOLE_GETCHAR=y

# Heap and stacks
CONFIG_HEAP_MEM_POOL_SIZE=16384
CONFIG_MAIN_STACK_SIZE=8192
CONFIG_SYSTEM_WORKQUEUE_STACK_SIZE=2048
CONFIG_HW_STACK_PROTECTION=y

# MCUBOOT
CONFIG_BOOTLOADER_MCUBOOT=y
CONFIG_IMG_MANAGER=y
CONFIG_MCUBOOT_IMG_MANAGER=y

# Flash
CONFIG_FLASH=y
CONFIG_IMG_ERASE_PROGRESSIVELY=y

# AWS FOTA
CONFIG_AWS_FOTA=y
CONFIG_FOTA_DOWNLOAD=y
CONFIG_AWS_FOTA_LOG_LEVEL_DBG=y
CONFIG_AWS_JOBS_LOG_LEVEL_DBG=y
CONFIG_DFU_TARGET=y

# Download client (needed by AWS FOTA)
CONFIG_DOWNLOAD_CLIENT=y
CONFIG_DOWNLOAD_CLIENT_STACK_SIZE=4096

# Fatal error
CONFIG_RESET_ON_FATAL_ERROR=n
CONFIG_WATCHDOG=y

[Didrik Rokhaug]

Did you try to add CONFIG_GPS_START_AFTER_CLOUD_EVT_READY=y?

[Hetsh]

Yes, I did but that did not solve the problem but I could achieve this by changing the code calling the environmental sensors.

I think this Ticket can be closed here.

Thank you.

HeTsH