IOT NodeMCU ESP8266 Weather Station Kit

hi mandrels wrong and welcome to the back office teardown lab I'm going to admit I made a video for you guys and I think I lost the footage and it was me assembling this thing if I find the footage then maybe I'll put a video outlet however I'm going to do a teardown of something I have a simple so I've assembled here came in this box you can buy it online it's called an esp8266 weather station kit and it comes with a URL for the instructions and if you go on github you can find all of the stack but basically basically it's an arduino device I'm going to plug in this little Arduino device sure you want to see what it can do and it does as it says on the tin it's a weather station but it's it's a little bit more than that so I plug it in and you can see it says connecting to Wi-Fi and it's using the standard Arduino II type stacks where you hard code your SSID in there and your WEP key or WP KQ whatever they call in them now and you can then hook it up it goes on you grab some API keys and then it goes on to a weather service and that's what you're seeing here now so you're seeing it says Friday in your area the temperature is that Saturday's that Sunday's that and it's actually wrong I've got a set to the wrong place I think it's set to a place in the US that sounds similar to here although judging from that time that can't be right and then you can see it's it's slowly scrolls through those pages they operate to the screen but there's so much more to this kit than what you see on the screen because you can see you have a ESP a six to two board right there which i think is also cold node MCU or Y Mouse it's just a standard board very similar to the ones that we use for our other projects but you can see it does have this weird thing where it's quite wide and you'll know as it stands these boards are almost wider than most breadboard giving you only one set of pins so this one actually comes with two pieces of bread board and that's any way you can really hook everything up now what you have here on this board is a number of additional sensors so it comes with clearly with this screen this OLED display that's I think it's pretty much I squid see I think the whole thing is bust off I squared see it she's not spy it's all I so glad to see so it's nice and simple then you have a number of other senses so here you have a light sensor and that's the little sensor there and if you look at these boards you can actually all these boards individually anyway so that's the light sensor there this is they're calling an atmosphere atmosphere sensor so I'm not entirely sure one atmosphere sensor is interesting laughs this isn't I squared see it's got its own data format so there's some decoding going on the arduino to decode this particular data format and then here you have a barometer so you're getting a bunch of sensors here earlier this was also got combined temperature if i'm not mistaken so you have four bits of sensing that's going on here and as part of the API key it allows you to hook it up to an IOT display graphing system that I think is hosted by the same company does MATLAB so then you can log in online and see the values being logged for this so you've got two things going on then - you've got the weather information being pulled from the internet being displayed on the screen now it's totally independently from all of the sensing going on here and but and then the second thing is all the sense in going in here being displayed on there IOT thing online or via Wi-Fi and it works pretty well actually I've had it running for about week I did do a say a nice assembly video there's not really any gotchas on here I will show you this though interestingly enough so you can see to prove to you it's all bust on I squared C those are all the I squared C lines and it's using d3 and d4 I'm pretty sure you've bit bash the I squared C on these so you probably move them over to something a little bit more sensible over there you don't need to keep fast I squid see with these sorts of devices and then you do have one additional line here you see this gray wire which is going to d5 which is a digital input that's being used to decode this atmosphere sensor and looking see if there is any information on these boards I don't think there are this one does actually bmp180 I believe this barometer is a clone of maybe an Adafruit I think they're all clones of Adafruit board or something similar what's weird is this light intensity sensor because there's a lot of gubbins going on for this light intensity sensor but perhaps again it's mainly down to getting it to speak on I squared C that's all I can think of because really I don't think it's much more than a LDR so there so go out and buy this if you want to have a big bundle of wires like that I really like this I think if this existed in a small project box and I'm pretty sure you could make it exist in a small project box it would be pretty cool I mean if I can get hold of some more of these screens you can emit all these other sensors and everything and just have it as a little desktop weather station you know and then customize these I think my next steps though in terms of a project I would like to modify the UI here so it can actually show all these local sensors going on here and it should probably do some other cute things so if you look at my other projects you can see I've got it so that you can login to the device as an access point to set the Wi-Fi codes and everything and I would definitely want this one to do that so I don't have to hard set those and it'd be really nice here if it showed you the DHCP and Wi-Fi settings and to do that you could easily add some inputs here so you can actually have some buttons to scroll through and do a whole little configuration interface so there you go hopefully that's of some use to you if you're stuck at home in the corona virus hopefully it'll pass and you'll emerge the other side like a bug out of Ana Margot and spread your butterfly like wings and do something interesting and if you have all of these parts that was part of a we know kit like an le goat I did have I can't find my bear give it away I did notice though that LED kits tend to come with loads of these pieces so you probably have enough to put this together and certainly get the API key another thing you could do by the way of all the radar modules and all of that we were messing with if you do have access to that API you could log the radar pings to that just graph them on that so you can actually build something similar so yeah I'd say look at the weather station kit documentation and see if you can adapt it as ever thank you for watching

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Length: 7min 19sec (439 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 20 2020