Unable to take humidity reading

[richardhughes]

I have copied over the sample code from the gifthub page for the humidity sensor readings (as it is required in my idea), however whenever I try to run it I get an error saying that there is a "False OSError Humidity Init Failed, please run as root / use sudo"
What does this mean and how can I use sudo in the code to make it work.
Thanks,

[Davespice]

It means you just need to run the code as the super user, the please run as root / use sudo bit is telling you what to do.
The notes you received with the Astro Pi explain this. Just open a terminal window and type in this command:

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sudo idle3 &

Think of sudo as super-user-do, it's like Run as Administrator in Windows.
That will then launch the Python 3 programming environment under the root user, load up your code and then it should work.

[richardhughes]

Thank you