The Blog of Daniel Le Math

After testing the single modules for a sensor I finished the combination. Now the ESP8266 reads the temperature and humidity and sends them to the MQTT broker together with the actual voltage and the number of attempts to make a connection to the broker. The later is useful, because the ESP cannot reliably connect to the broker. I don’t know the reason, some investigation is necessary.

A photo and the circuit are in the earlier post.

As usual the code is on github.

After a lot of gambling around with a breadboard and afterwards soldering on a perfboard, I finished the first version of the sensor, which I want to spread in my flat. So the hardware is finished (for now – there are ideas for improvement). For the software I tested the individual parts.

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During the last MakerFaire Hannover, I found the very nice RGBDigits by Coen de Bruijn. I purchased the clock shield with 4 RGBDigits and a real time clock.

Room temperature 24°C

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