DIY Weather Station & WiFi Sensor Station || ESP8266, Nextion LCD

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In this project I will show you how to create a weather station along with a WiFi sensor station. The sensor station measures local temperature and humidity data and sends it, through WiFi, to the weather station. The weather station then displays the data on its LCD screen. It also grabs the current temperature and humidity data in your city from the Internet and displays it as well on the LCD screen. Let's get started!

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2011 Lookalike by Bartlebeats

[sgsax]

ESP2866 is a game changer. Way easier to use and cheaper than Xbee for local communication. Integrated arduino-compatible microcontroller is a bonus. Really want to build a weather station to put on top of my house. Got some good ideas here. Thanks for sharing!

[YukiElectronics]

Regarding the Nextion Editor, it was probably expecting a monospace font, which would explain the weird text spacing.

[jonty]

I had a play around with the BME280 and needed 2 of them connected to the same processor. After looking through huge amounts to datasheets, I found that you can indeed change the address on these boards; you have a choice of 2! If you look carefully at the 3 gold pads on the pcb, you will see that 2 are connected (middle and 1 side). You break this connection and join the middle to the other pad. One address is 0x76 and the other 0x77.
This saved my project, hope it helps someone else too.

[Nono-hkis]

Oh I see. Normally the hardware guys says, "ehh, fix it in software." Until he has to write the software, then suddenly more hardware shows up!

[yksw]

Regarding the temperature sensor, you should keep it separate from everything else, since the boards develop some heat too, and could so influence the result.

[tfconfirmedbuthv]

Man, I’m still surprised you can upload with such high consistency and still have high quality videos! Keep up the good work!

[rklauco]

Those 2 Wemoses made my day :) Seems like a bit of overkill to me. First of all, ESP is pretty fast, so any LCD will be capable to display the graphics directly from ESP - you can even utilize the SPIFS for storage of the data and, potentially, upload a new background using web interface. But I admire your - let's just hack it together - attitude, really. I usually spend LOTS of time on my projects just because I don't want to do it this way and go with something like "this has to be possible - how hard can it be?". 3 months later I am left with lots of unfinished or half-done projects ;)

[twilightknight]

This is perfect timing, actually. I'm waiting on a bme280 to be delivered to set up an automated climate system in a vivarium. Always glad when there's a greatscott video to help back up my work so I don't get too lost

[Braeden]

There you go again, making a video about the exact thing I wanted to learn.

[uiopuiop]

Esp8266s are getting more popular each day

[electron-]

Finally, a tutorial/build of a weather station (because that's an original idea)!

[packratswhatif.]

SWEET !!!! After all the failed purchased weather stations I have tried, I wish you could design a complete all-out enhanced station with wind, direction, uv, temp, humidity, rain amount and pressure. This idea of going thru the wifi sounds absolutely grand compared to the expensive crap I have purchased that failed which operates over their own RF signal. My problem is that I an Not a programmer (mental block) and I get too frustrated trying. With having all the basic sensors already up and installed, just communication setup would needed to get all info back to the head unit.

[qps]

Haha, I thought I was the only one that went around the internet using pieces of other people's code when I couldn't get my own stuff to work. If a pro like GreatScott does it, I guess it's not that bad! Great video btw.

[airborne]

You are the first left hander that has very ledgiable penmanship. I am left handed and my writing is terrible. My son is left handed and his is worse than mine. All my coworkers I have come across in my career that were lefties, also had bad penmanship. I am curious what your secret is, or how they taught you this in school. And it isnt fun when I have to design software on a white board going left to right. BTW, excellent videos.

[fcsoofo]

I'd use an OLED display and make it simple white text on black(off) background, replace "Internet" with "Outside" and "Sensor" with "Inside", and maybe add a little cloud/sun icon indicating the current weather.
Anyway, cool project!

[mellee]

Because of the relatively high cost of the Nextion display (in Aus) I think a remote sensor station could incorporate a web server that can connect via wifi to a tablet.Good project and magnificent handwriting!!

[Void-cwvu]

I get that this thing is already worth it, because it's great fun to make something like this yourself etc. and I'm not trying to be negative, but I don't know why it would have any practical value over smartphone weather tbh. Still a great video, like always.

[bonnome]

I also have a couple temperature sensors with an esp8266. I just bought one of those electric cable boxes from orico to put all my stuff in.
Works great!

[Harish-xwjt]

The best thing about DIY is that you can add and remove anything you want. Plus it super cheap

[monojithalder]

This is a great project but now day anyone likes to see all sensor value into their mobile phone or their smartwatches. Please try that. I already build this kind of project. This is a just suggestion do not take it otherwise. I like your video very much. Thank you.