Hello and good morning,
I have done a raspberry pi project using a DHT22 and the Adafruit Python Library for that sensor. For now I connected the DHT22 Sensor to the GPIO using jumper wires (data, vcc, gnd) but I would like for the sensor to be at a higher distance from the raspberry pi board.
The board would be located in a safe and temperature controlled spot while the sensor would be on the outside (taking the temperature and humidity values and sending them to the raspberry pi board).
Now, I am totally new to the Raspberry Pi world and even newer to the wiring / cabling / soldering world so I have no idea what to look for, what names to search on google and so on.
What I have is a CAT5 cable of which I want to use 3 cables out of 8, each one connected to the jumper wires that would connect the CAT5 from one side to the sensor and from the other to the raspberry pi board.
Connection would be something like this:
Sensor (Data, VCC, GND) connected by female jumper to the CAT5
CAT5 connected to the raspberry pi board with female jumper
[DHT22]===[jumper]===[jumper]CAT5------------------------------------------------CAT5[jumper]===[jumper]===[RaspberryPi]
How would you go about doing that? Consider that I really know little to nothing about electronics and wiring!
Thanks a lot in advance!