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What Do I Build Next? A Simple Weather

Station
This is another inexpensive, simple, quick and informative project that I had backlogged on my desktop to publish.

Beginner Full instructions provided

4 hours 8,866

Things used in this project

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Hardware components

Ideaspark Weather Station Kit

This all inclusive kit cost $19.99 with free two-day delivery with Amazon × 1
Prime

Software apps and online services

7-Zip extractor -64bit

7-Zip extractor -32bit

ESP8266Trasher- nodemcu-flasher

Arduino IDE

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Story
What Do I Build Next? A Weather Station. I've seen these kits advertised on Amazon and Ebay and the
likes. They measure temperature, humidity, barometric pressure and light levels. This one was a little
different, it would also give you a three day forecast.... now I'm a weatherman. I can't do any worse than
those on TV.

The Amazon store "Ideaspark" sent me an email the day after I placed my order with a link to an
AMAZON drive account that had all required software and documents required. So I was able to
download and review before I actually had the weather station kit. Imagine that I thought, buying
something electronic from Amazon and it included complete instructions and software that was bug-free.

The processing power comes from an ESP8266 module and is linked to the internet through two "api"
free accounts using "json" calls: one is on "thingspeak.com" and the other is on "openweathermap.org".

The software setup for these accounts are spelled out clearly in the kit that I purchased. Assembly of the
kit was a little unclear, pictures of the interconnect wiring between each module were not that concise
and the schematic was slightly better. The components were wired up using a bread board (my kit
provided two mini bread boards but I wanted slightly more stability and used a larger single board) and
many male-male duplex jumper wires.

1 / 3 • Weather Station Kit by ideaSpark

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The Amazon Product description is as follows:

✔️ The weather station uses the ESP8266-12E to obtain data from the Internet: time of a city,
weather data and forecast information for the next 3 days, scrolling on the SSD1306 OLED Display;
the device can switch to display data from any city in the world - maybe your relatives or friends live
there
✔️ The device uses sensors DHT11, BMP180, BH1750FVI to collect temperature, humidity,
Atmosphetic Pressure and light data. The weather station reads data indoor via sensor every 5
seconds and uploads it to the Internet every 60 seconds.You can see real-time data charts from your
phone or computer.Of course you can modify the code to implement different functions
✔️ 【ESP8266】:CP2102 chip inside, Micro USB, 4MB flash, full I/O port and wireless 802.11
supported IOT platform Arduino compatible. 【DHT11】 Sensor: A digital signal output with a
calibrated temperature and humidity combined sensor.The simple communication protocol greatly
reduces the programming effort required
✔️ 【BMP180】:high-precision, small size, ultra-low power 3μA pressure sensor.Its performance
excellence, the absolute accuracy of the lowest can reach 0.03hPa.Can directly through the I2C bus
connected with a variety of microprocessors.Pressure range: 300 ~ 1100hPa. 【BH1750FVI】:Digital
Light intensity Sensor.Direct digital output, complex calculation is omitted, omitting calibration.
【OLED Yellow Blue Display】:0.96" SSD1306 128X64 Yellow&Blue OLED LCD Display with I2C IIC
SPI Serial

✔️ We have prepared weather station hardware.And free 50M guidance manual, demo code, burning
tools, necessary class libraries already on CD-ROM disk.or contact us on Amazon, we will send
download link to you.Package List：1 x Esp8266-12E, 1 x DHT11, 1 x BMP180, 1xBH1750FVI, 1 x
OLED Display, 2 x breadboard, 20 x dupont cable, 1 x usb cable, 1xGuidance document CD-ROM
disk

Product description
Color:Weather Station Kits

⭐
Important Notice: Kits designed only for Windows OS The Free 50M Guidance ⭐
Document:Guidance Manual, Demo Code, Burning Tools, and Necessary Class Libraries already
on CD-ROM disk.Or contact us on Amazon, we will send download link on:US Eastern
Time(ET): 21:00 PM - 5:30 AM(Second Day)Pacific Standard Time(PST): 18:00 PM - 2:30
AM(Second Day)Result:1) Read the temperature and humidity in the air at regular intervals2) Read the
light intensity at regular intervals3) Display the humidity, temperature, light intensity in the OLED
display4) Upload humidity, temperature, light intensity data to thinkspeak at regular intervals.

5)You can view it on your computer or mobile phoneGuidance Manual Catalog:Overview：This manual
describes how to make a Weatherstation by Arduino IDEStep 1: Install USB-To-SerialStep 2: Install
Arduino IDE for ESP8266Step 3: Burning Firmware to ESP8266Step 4: Connecting ComponentsStep 5:
Register thingspeak new accountStep 6: Import Weatherstation code in the Arduino IDEStep 7: Add
LibraryStep 8: Modify File Weatherstation.inoStep 9: Set the Board and Port againStep 10: Burn code to
ESP8266Step 11: ResultAT-Firmware in Guidance Document:Ai-
Thinker_ESP8266_DOUT_8Mbit_v1.5.4.1-a_20171130.binLibrary attachment in Guidance
Document:Weatherstation.ino(Weatherstation Source Code)LiquidCrystal_I2C-master.zipTools in
Guidance Document:ESP8266Flasher.exeusb-to-serial.rarPackage List：1 x ESP8266-12E1 x DHT11
((Temperature and Humidity))
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1 x BMP180 ((Barometric Pressure))1 x BH1750FVI ((Ambient Light Sensor))1 x usb cable1 x 0.96"
SSD1306 128X64 Yellow&Blue OLED LCD Display1 x Guidance document CD-ROM disk2 x
breadboard20 x dupont cable

Assembly Steps:

1. Install headers on each sensor: Barometric pressure sensor, OLED, and Light sensor

1 / 2 • sensors to be soldered

2. Position sensors on mini-breadboard

sensor lay out on breadboard

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3. Connect sensors on mini breadboard with dupont male to male jumpers ( I decided to use a larger
breadboard than the two mini ones that were included)

1 / 4 • schematic

4. Install USB to Serial Driver (Windows 10) " USB-SERIAL CH340" (COM6) com port may be different
on your system

4a. Unpack "usb-to-serial-win10.rar" file using "7-zip or comparable extraction software"

64bit ( https://www.7-zip.org/7z1805-x64.exe )

32 bit ( https://www.7-zip.org/7z1805.exe )

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1 / 2 • USB to Serial Driver installed successfully

5. Update ESP 8266 module with current NodeMCU firmware using ( ESP8266Trasher.exe )
" https://github.com/nodemcu/nodemcu-flasher "

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6. Extract "Weatherstation files"

7. Open Arduino 1.8.7 application ( https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software )

7. Load WeatherStationDemo.ino

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Overview：This manual describes how to make a miniature weather station by Arduino IDE

Step 1: Install USB-To-Serial

Step 2: Install Arduino IDE for ESP8266

Step 3: Burning Firmware to ESP8266

Step 4: Connecting Components

Step 5: Register OpenWeathermap, thingspeak new account

Step 6: Import WeatherStation code in the Arduino IDE

Step 7: Add Library

Step 8: Modify File WeatherStation.ino

Step 9: Set the Board and Port again

Step 10: Burn code to ESP8266

Checklist for publication

Schematics

Weather Station Interconnect

This is connection drawing for breadboard connections

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Weather Station Interconnect-Actual

This is picture of actual wiring and breadboard jumpers

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Code
Weather Station De… ESP8266

ESP8266 Arduino
USB to SERIAL DRIVER

No preview (download only).

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Credits
James Martel
47 projects • 54 followers
Self taught Robotics platform developer with electronics background

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