Arduino - Weather Station

This tutorial goes over how to use the following to make a functioning weather station! 🌦

Supplies

• (1) ESP8266 Wi-Fi Microcontroller (NodeMCU v3)
• (1) 0.96 " OLED 1306
• (1) DHT11
• (8) Jumper wires

For refrence I have included the pinout diagram for the ESP8266 Wi-Fi Microcontroller (NodeMCU v3) that I am using.

Setup

Code

For this project, we are using the following libraries:

1. Adafruit_GFX
2. Adafruit_SSD1306
3. Adafruit_Sensor

For information on how to install the libraries above please visist https://www.arduino.cc/en/guide/libraries.

#include <Wire.h>
#include <Adafruit_GFX.h>
#include <Adafruit_SSD1306.h>
#include <Adafruit_Sensor.h>
#include <DHT.h>

#define SCREEN_WIDTH 128 // OLED display width, in pixels
#define SCREEN_HEIGHT 64 // OLED display height, in pixels

// Declaration for an SSD1306 display connected to I2C (SDA, SCL pins)
Adafruit_SSD1306 display(SCREEN_WIDTH, SCREEN_HEIGHT, &Wire, -1);

#define DHTPIN 14     // Digital pin connected to the DHT sensor

DHT dht(DHTPIN, DHT11);

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(115200);

  dht.begin();

  if (!display.begin(SSD1306_SWITCHCAPVCC, 0x3C)) {
    Serial.println(F("SSD1306 allocation failed"));
    for (;;);
  }
  delay(2000);
  display.clearDisplay();
  display.setTextColor(WHITE);
}

void loop() {
  delay(5000);

  //read temperature and humidity
  float t = dht.readTemperature();
  float h = dht.readHumidity();

  // clear display
  display.clearDisplay();
 
  if (isnan(h) || isnan(t)) {
    // display error message
    Serial.println("Failed to read from DHT sensor!");
    display.setCursor(0, 0);
    display.setTextSize(1);
    display.print("Failed to read from DHT sensor!");
  } else {
    // display temperature
    display.setTextSize(1);
    display.setCursor(0, 0);
    display.print("Temperature: ");
    display.setTextSize(2);
    display.setCursor(0, 10);
    display.print(t);
    display.print(" ");
    display.setTextSize(1);
    display.cp437(true);
    display.write(167);
    display.setTextSize(2);
    display.print("C");

    // display humidity
    display.setTextSize(1);
    display.setCursor(0, 35);
    display.print("Humidity: ");
    display.setTextSize(2);
    display.setCursor(0, 45);
    display.print(h);
    display.print(" %");
  }

  display.display();
}

If all the parts are working accordingly, you will see the following for having a DHT11 sensor and when you don't.

If you want to display the output as Fahrenheit all you need to do is change dht.readTemperature(); to dht.readTemperature(true);. Changing the following and changing display.print("C"); to display.print("F"); will yeild the following results.

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