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Action description install requirement Adafruit_DHT fail for Could not detect if running on the Raspberry Pi or Beaglebone Black. If this failure is unexpected, you can run again with --force-pi or --force-bbb parameter to force using the Raspberry Pi or Beaglebone Black respectively.

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Config

# Sensors
sensor_modules:
  - name: dht11_sensor
    module: dht22
    type: dht11
    pin: 17

sensor_inputs:
  # The configuration of the specific sensor value to use (LM75 only has temperature)
  - name: temperature_humidity
    module: dht11_sensor
    interval: 1
    retain: false```

**Hardware**
 - Platform:  Raspberry Pi 4B 4G
 - Connected hardware: sensors

**System:**
 - OS: [e.g. Raspbian]
 - Python version:3.9.2
 - User you're running as: pi
 - Using a virtualenv?: yes

**Additional context**
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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63232072/cannot-import-name-beaglebone-black-driver-from-adafruit-dht
Adafruit_DHT had been archived and the authot changed to adafruit-circuitpython-dht
https://learn.adafruit.com/dht-humidity-sensing-on-raspberry-pi-with-gdocs-logging/python-setup

maybe this repo should support the new python libary

[dandantheflyingman]

Hi, some further information here. No actual solution at the moment though.

I am using a Raspberry Pi 1.

I manually installed the Adafruit library with pip install Adafruit_DHT --install-option="--force-pi" and I got failures relating back to this library's platform_detection.py file:

ImportError: cannot import name 'Raspberry_Pi_2_Driver' from 'Adafruit_DHT' (/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/Adafruit_DHT/__init__.py)

Specifically this part:

def pi_version():
    """Detect the version of the Raspberry Pi.  Returns either 1, 2, 3 or
    None depending on if it's a Raspberry Pi 1 (model A, B, A+, B+),
    Raspberry Pi 2 (model B+), Raspberry Pi 3,Raspberry Pi 3 (model B+), Raspberry Pi 4
    or not a Raspberry Pi.
    """
    # Check /proc/cpuinfo for the Hardware field value.
    # 2708 is pi 1
    # 2709 is pi 2
    # 2835 is pi 3 or pi 4
    # 2837 is pi 3b+
    # Anything else is not a pi.
    with open('/proc/cpuinfo', 'r') as infile:
        cpuinfo = infile.read()
    # Match a line like 'Hardware   : BCM2709'
    match = re.search('^Hardware\s+:\s+(\w+)$', cpuinfo,
                      flags=re.MULTILINE | re.IGNORECASE)
    if not match:
        # Couldn't find the hardware, assume it isn't a pi.
        return None
    if match.group(1) == 'BCM2708':
        # Pi 1
        return 1
    elif match.group(1) == 'BCM2709':
        # Pi 2
        return 2
    elif match.group(1) == 'BCM2835':
        # Pi 3 or Pi 4
        return 3
    elif match.group(1) == 'BCM2837':
        # Pi 3b+
        return 3
    else:
        # Something else, not a pi.
        return None

From google, there seems to have been upstream changes that cause cpuinfo to now return Hardware: BCM2835 for all Raspberry Pi 0/1/2/3, which in turn breaks this platform check.

As said in the original post, the Adafruit_DHT library has been deprecated in favour of their CircuitPython libraries, so we won't see a fix for this platform check.