Project Abstract:
A Wemos D1 Mini is constantly receiving weather information from the internet for your city and sends it over to the display. Simultaneously, an RTC Module sends the current date and time to the Wemos D1 Mini to also display it on the display. Additionally, a BME280 temperature and humidity sensor send the corresponding values to the Wemos and it sends the data over to the display, to show it beside the data from the internet. For the communication between the Wemos, RTC Module and BME280 Sensor we will be using the I2C protocol. The display uses a serial interface for communication.
Software necessities
Contents
Now in order to complete this project, you need to make sure that you have the ESP8266, as well as the SparkFun BME280 libraries installed in the Arduino IDE. You also need the Nextion Editor software(free).
Circuit diagram
Given this functioning principle, I designed a schematic for this circuit.
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Arduino Source code Explanation:
In the Arduino code, you need to set the I2C address of your BME sensor. What happens in the following line:
You also need to select the Wemos D1 board from the board manager, as shown below.
Data readings
You get the actual weather readings from these 2 lines:
For the WiFi part, you need to fill out the following parameters:
For displaying the date and time, I had to do some workarounds to have them properly shown on the display. The GUI doesn’t automatically add a 0 if the time has 1 letter, for example, it will show 8:30, which doesn’t look that good. In the following lines, I made sure that when the date/hour consists of 1 number, the code adds a 0 in front of the number. Additionally, I had to subtract 1 from the hour value because of the wintertime.
In the following lines, I convert the string readings for the date/time in integer.
As explained beforehand, here I add a 0 to the numbers with an IF statement, if the date/time only consists out of 1 number.
Transmitting data to display
In order to transmit the data/time values, this is how you need to send the values over to the display.
The variable “data” consists of the hours + : + minutes, in order to achieve the format 08:56 for example. The same goes for the date.
The temperature and humidity are transmitted with the following lines:
Online weather data
The display needs to get 4 hexadecimal 0xFF in order to process the data packet. For the weather values from the internet, I used openweathermap.org to get the local weather from my city.
You need to register yourself for free in order to get your API Key.
After searching for your city, you can copy the city ID from the link.
A place for Adding API and City id into Source Code
GUI
This is how the GUI looks like. we designed it by using the Nextion Editor software.
Complete Source Code:
#include <ESP8266WiFi.h>
#include <ArduinoJson.h>
#include <Wire.h>
#include <DS3231_.h>
#include "SparkFunBME280.h"
BME280 mySensor;
float temps;
float hums;
String data;
float tempitod;
float humitod;
String result;
DS3231 clock_ds;
RTCDateTime dt;
String string1;
String string2;
String string3;
String string4;
String string5;
int hour_int;
int minute_int;
int day_int;
int month_int;
String string_h;
char ssid[] = "type your wifi name";
char pass[] = "type your wifi password";
String APIKEY = "a3b00f5ba21ccc4fedf1b1846b3f37b0";
String CityID = "2778067";
WiFiClient client;
char servername[] = "api.openweathermap.org";
void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
Wire.begin();
mySensor.setI2CAddress(0x76);
mySensor.beginI2C();
clock_ds.begin();
WiFi.begin(ssid, pass);
while (WiFi.status() != WL_CONNECTED) {
delay(500);
}
}
void loop() {
dt = clock_ds.getDateTime();
string1 = (dt.hour)-1;
hour_int = string1.toInt();
if((dt.hour) == "00" ){
hour_int=23;
string1="23";
}
string2 = dt.minute;
string3 = dt.day;
string4 = dt.month;
string5 = dt.year;
minute_int = string2.toInt();
day_int = string3.toInt();
month_int = string4.toInt();
if (hour_int < 10)
string1 = "0" + string1;
if (minute_int <10)
string2 = "0" + string2;
if (day_int <10)
string3 = "0" + string3;
if (month_int <10)
string4 = "0" + string4;
hums = mySensor.readFloatHumidity();
temps = mySensor.readTempC();
getWeatherData();
NextionData();
delay(10000);
}
void getWeatherData()
{
if (client.connect(servername, 80)) {
client.println("GET /data/2.5/weather?id=" + CityID + "&units=metric&APPID=" + APIKEY);
client.println("Host: api.openweathermap.org");
client.println("User-Agent: ArduinoWiFi/1.1");
client.println("Connection: close");
client.println();
}
while (client.connected() && !client.available()) delay(1);
while (client.connected() || client.available()) {
char c = client.read();
result = result + c;
}
client.stop();
result.replace('[', ' ');
result.replace(']', ' ');
char jsonArray [result.length() + 1];
result.toCharArray(jsonArray, sizeof(jsonArray));
jsonArray[result.length() + 1] = '\0';
StaticJsonBuffer<1024> json_buf;
JsonObject &root = json_buf.parseObject(jsonArray);
String location = root["name"];
String country = root["sys"]["country"];
float temperature = root["main"]["temp"];
float humidity = root["main"]["humidity"];
String weather = root["weather"]["main"];
String description = root["weather"]["description"];
float pressure = root["main"]["pressure"];
tempitod = temperature;
humitod = humidity;
}
void NextionData() {
data = "time_h.txt=\"" + string1+ ":" + "\"";
Serial.print(data);
Serial.write(0xff);
Serial.write(0xff);
Serial.write(0xff);
data = "time_m.txt=\"" + string2 + "\"";
Serial.print(data);
Serial.write(0xff);
Serial.write(0xff);
Serial.write(0xff);
data = "day.txt=\"" + string3 + "\"";
Serial.print(data);
Serial.write(0xff);
Serial.write(0xff);
Serial.write(0xff);
data = "month.txt=\"" + string4 + "\"";
Serial.print(data);
Serial.write(0xff);
Serial.write(0xff);
Serial.write(0xff);
data = "year.txt=\"" + string5 + "\"";
Serial.print(data);
Serial.write(0xff);
Serial.write(0xff);
Serial.write(0xff);
data = "temps.txt=\"" + String(temps, 1) + "\"";
Serial.print(data);
Serial.write(0xff);
Serial.write(0xff);
Serial.write(0xff);
data = "hums.txt=\"" + String(hums, 1) + "\"";
Serial.print(data);
Serial.write(0xff);
Serial.write(0xff);
Serial.write(0xff);
data = "tempitod.txt=\"" + String(tempitod, 1) + "\"";
Serial.print(data);
Serial.write(0xff);
Serial.write(0xff);
Serial.write(0xff);
delay(500);
data = "humitod.txt=\"" + String(humitod, 1) + "\"";
Serial.print(data);
Serial.write(0xff);
Serial.write(0xff);
Serial.write(0xff);
}
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