ESP32 Tutorial 51/55 - Temperatuer and Humidty over WiFi with DHT | SunFounder's ESP32 IoT Learnig kit

In this video we learn how to use ESP32 as a server and measure temperture and humidity using DHT11 and dispaly it on mobile phone or computer browser. Full code is provided and explained.

Topics in this lesson

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• 00:00 Introduction
• 1:45 Introduction to DHT wifi project
• 3:59 Arduino Code for ESP32 DHT Wifi
• 13:31 Selecting ESP32 board and COM port in Arduino IDE
• 15:13 Demonstration of Temperature over Wifi

/*
 * Display temperature on Browswer screen using DHT11, DHT22 with ESP32
 * 
 * Written by Ahmad Shamshiri on Dec 18, 2023
 Watch video instruction for this code on YouTube https://youtu.be/drrW1EHqKuM
Resource page for this lesson and code:
http://robojax.com/course3
Tutoril by https://youTube.com/@robojax
 * 
 * I have combined DHT library of Adafruit with ESP8266 WebServer both links 
 * Adafruit DHT library on GitHub: https://github.com/adafruit/DHT-sensor-library
 * and 
 * ESP8266 on GitHub : https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino
 * 
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const int refresh=3;//read every 3 seconds
boolean showSerial =true;//true or false

unsigned int unit=0;//0=C, 1=F, 
char *title[]={"Temperature","Temperature","Humidity"};
char *unitText[]={"°C","°F","%"};\

#include "DHT.h"
#define DHTPIN 14  // Set the pin connected to the DHT11 data pin
#define DHTTYPE DHT11 // DHT 11 
//#define DHTTYPE DHT22   // DHT 22  (AM2302), AM2321
//#define DHTTYPE DHT21   // DHT 21 (AM2301)
DHT dht(DHTPIN, DHTTYPE);
float temperatureValue,temperatureFValue, humidityValue;// 


#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 

const char *ssid = "dars";
const char *password = "DDDDDDDD";

WebServer server(80);

void sendTemp() {
//see video 
  String page = "\n";
  page +="\n";  
  page +="\n";
  page +="\n";
  page +="    \n";  

  page +="\n";  
  page +="\n"; 
  page +="
Robojax.com DHT Code
\n";  
  page +="
 \n";  
  page +=title[unit];  
  page +=": ";
  if (DHTTYPE ==DHT11){
    page += String((int)temperatureValue);  
  }else{
    page += String(temperatureValue, 1);
  }
  page +=unitText[unit]; 
  page +="
\n";
  //humidity starts
  page +=title[2];  
  page +=": \n";  
  page += String((int)humidityValue);      
  page +=unitText[2];  
  //humidity ends
  page +="
\n"; 
  
  page +="";  
  page +="\n";  
  server.send(200,  "text/html", page);

}



void handleNotFound() {
  String message = "File Not Found\n\n";
  message += "URI: ";
  message += server.uri();
  message += "\nMethod: ";
  message += (server.method() == HTTP_GET) ? "GET" : "POST";
  message += "\nArguments: ";
  message += server.args();
  message += "\n";

  for (uint8_t i = 0; i < server.args(); i++) {
    message += " " + server.argName(i) + ": " + server.arg(i) + "\n";
  }

  server.send(404, "text/plain", message);

}

void setup(void) {
   dht.begin();
  Serial.begin(115200);
  WiFi.mode(WIFI_STA);
  WiFi.begin(ssid, password);
  Serial.println("");

  // Wait for connection
  while (WiFi.status() != WL_CONNECTED) {
    delay(500);
    Serial.print(".");
  }

  Serial.println("");
  Serial.print("Connected to ");
  Serial.println(ssid);
  Serial.print("Open: http://");
  Serial.print(WiFi.localIP());
  Serial.println(" to read temperature");

  if (MDNS.begin("robojaxDHT")) {
    Serial.println("MDNS responder started");
  }

  server.on("/", sendTemp);

  server.on("/inline", []() {
    server.send(200, "text/plain", "this works as well");
  });
  server.onNotFound(handleNotFound);
  server.begin();
  Serial.println("HTTP server started");
}

void loop(void) {
  //Robojax.com code for ESP32 DHT11 DHT22
  server.handleClient();
  temperatureValue = dht.readTemperature();// Read temperature as Celsius (the default)
  humidityValue = dht.readHumidity();// Reading humidity 
  temperatureFValue = dht.readTemperature(true);// Read temperature as Fahrenheit (isFahrenheit = true)

    if(showSerial){
        Serial.print(title[unit]);
        Serial.print(": ");
        if (DHTTYPE ==DHT11){
      Serial.println((int)temperatureValue);  
        }else{
        Serial.print(temperatureValue,1);
        }
        
    }
  Serial.println();//just adds new line

  delay(300);// change this to larger value (1000 or more) if you don't need very often reading
  // Robojax.com code for ESP32 and DHT11 DHT22  
}