Simple wall-mounted weather station
I liked the Byrrt weather station Link So I decided to create my own, simpler and stupider version on the commonly available and cheap DS18B20, BMP180 and DHT11 sensors (but with a housing). I aimed at the readability of the information on the display, so there are no infographics, no "trends", etc. Indoor and outdoor temperature, pressure, humidity and that's it.
Software is an arduin conglomerate of prefabs and custom scribbles. The program correctly displays negative temperatures, there are no double minus flowers between -9 and -10 degrees, I did not use the "lcd_clear" command, so the screen does not blink. For reasons unknown to me, the pressure measurement with the BMP180 had to be multiplied by 1.013 for the result to be correct, I connected another sensor, but it turned out to be damaged. For a few days I compared the accuracy of the pressure measurement with the METAR reports from a nearby airport, above 1000 hPa the error did not exceed 1 hPa, below 1000 hPa the indications differed by 1-2 hPa, it is difficult, I will live with it. The indications of both thermometers are practically identical.
The board is dual-voltage, so you can use various modules, not only at 5V, in the presented project the BMP sensor is powered by 3.3V, but you can solder the LM78L05 there and it will also work. The analog part is filtered with a simple 10 uH filter, I didn't give any quartz capacitors, because I didn't, but there is room for them. The presented version is a wall-mounted device, although the design of the housing is a matter for the user and it may as well be free-standing, etc. outside the device.
The housing is KM-111 from the Maszczyk offer. A little warning against the cheapest blue LCD displays, the characters are not displayed, just "displayed" at a sluggish pace. The refresh time is in practice up to a second.
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Add a commentHi With pressure measurement you are fine. The sensor simply measures absolute pressure and the pressure above sea level is commonly used. Check with this calculator if it is correct. If you want,... [Read more]
"pier", but you made me happy with this calculator, I needed it and I didn't know it was and where. THANKS! [Read more]
Minimalistic workmanship and good functionality, a big plus from me. Very good selection of electronics housing. [Read more]
As my colleague @pier noticed, the DHT11 is a toy, although you can find a good one. As for the BMP180, they have factory spreads of up to 3 hPa. And here only a software correction can help. Make the... [Read more]
Such a small note, the station does not measure the temperature in the room (room), but the temperature of the electronics inside the housing. The sensor should be placed outside, at the bottom of the... [Read more]
None of that, all the thermometers are on the outside, only the humidity is measured inside. You can see it in the last photos. [Read more]
You write about the DS18B20, which I see on the board, and the DHT and BME sensors are on the outside of the board, but still inside the housing. I don't know which sensor you are taking the temperature... [Read more]
Believe me they are not :) The device is wall mounted, but this "wall" is a plate with a hole underneath (old wardrobe), so the sensors are on wires outside the casing (and also outside the wardrobe).... [Read more]
Oh, the BMP180 will not measure the pressure correctly, how will it be in the housing? As for DHT11 I already wrote, it does not measure moisture. [Read more]
Some kind of festival of misunderstanding begins. In addition to pressure, the BMP180 also measures the temperature inside, so it cannot be in the housing, and the Dallas is supposed to be outside (because... [Read more]
It's cool, I forgot about the temperature measured by BMP, but I won't let DHT go away, it's crap. And how do you tend to calculate the NPM pressure as I wrote? [Read more]
In an earlier post you wrote that I should look at the photo, the photos show where the sensors are, so I wrote my comments on this basis. If you wrote in the description that the sensors are on the wires,... [Read more]