Welcome to the Esp8266Weather project

The ESP8266 is a really nice device when it comes to internet of things. Its really efficient and has a powerfull wireless chip on it.
This project is a Webservice for getting Weather Data from a ESP8266 equiped with a DHT-XX sensor.
Providing more Sensors is planned.

Overview

In this section the general build is described.

Whats needed?

Hardware

• A ESP8266 MCU (I used the Lolin NodeMCU DevKit v3.0 any other would work fine too)
• A DHT-XX Sensor (DHT-22 or DHT-11)
• Project board

Software

• Arduino 1.6.5
• ESP 8266 resources for Arduino
• Adafruit DHT sensor Library

Software Installation

Arduino

1. Install the IDE

   1. Download Arduino IDE from http://arduino.cc/download.php?f=/arduino-1.6.5-r5-windows.exe
   2. Run it with Admin rights



2. Install the ESP8266 Resources

   1. Open Preferences (File -> Preferences)
   2. In additional Board Manger URLs add "http://arduino.esp8266.com/staging/package_esp8266com_index.json"
   3. Restart IDE
   4. Open Boards Manager (Tools -> Boards -> Boards Manager)
   5. Search for ESP8266
   6. Install Latest



3. Install the DHT Libraries

   1. Download this "https://github.com/adafruit/DHT-sensor-library"
   2. Unzip it to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\libraries"
   3. Restart IDE

Hardware Installation

Read more in the Wiki https://github.com/kratostav/Esp8266Weather/wiki