Hey peeps
Did the first mock up and sketch of the IoT weather station which will also be monitoring pool temperature throughout the year for analytics etc.
You can view the feed here:
Devices used:
Node MCU Lua (ESP8266 Dev board)
DHT11 Temp and humidity sensor
BM180 pressure and temp sensor
BS18D20 waterproof temp sensor
4.7K resistor
breadboard and jumpers
Wiring side of things are like Lego vcc to 3.3V and ground to ground and then digital input for each signal terminal to gpio pins.
Coding the sketch was a bit more troublesome as it's my first arduino project. So basically a lot of copy pasting and troubleshooting but in the end it works well.
It sends sensor data to Thingspeak where I can then view it visually either via graphs or gauges. Also another learning curve I'll need to master.
I tried Cayenne and freeboard both were extremely limited in their for sensors as well as hitting certain pay walls...
All in all a tedious but rewarding project. Now that I have it mocked up I can refine it hopefully get a bored custom made and then 3d print an appropriate enclosure. Also wanting to add a possible graphical display.
One thing I'm troubleshooting now is trying to get my private dashboard to sync to my public Dashboard you can see from the link above it doesn't match the colour of the images and no gauges etc.
Comments (6)
Nice! Yes when you get ypur first esp8266 project working it is so rewarding :D one thing you could add is a sleep mode, so its batteries will last longer
Reply to: SteveR
Hey i actully have made something similar to that with an esp8266 and arduino smartwatch. I made a thing on thinghttp that gets only one line of text from a timekeeping site (the time being that lone of text). Then i split that value into hours and minutes and then just a normal timer code that keeps the time. I can send you the code that does that and then you can implement that into your code if you want to
Reply to: LittlePete
lol I think I'll need more help understanding than just the code....if u don't mind me PMing you to pick your brain when I get into it again
Reply to: SteveR
Yeah absolutely no problem with that :D
They turned out really well good job.