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Review on ESP8266 Weather Station Kit with Multiple Sensors & OLED Display for Arduino IDE IoT Starter (Guidance Document Included) by Fred Novak

Revainrating 4 out of 5

not a bad kit.

not bad in general. ESP8266 boards are sometimes difficult to flash, but after a few tries. All the code ended up there. I had to update the library after the compilation failed, but this was noted in the manual. I followed the instructions and fixed one thing that needs changing. The forecast is no longer available without a paid OpenWeather API key. The current conditions are freely available and read into the finished program, but ideally the script should be updated to completely remove them and make better use of the current daily conditions. I see in the Github log that the WU API was deprecated in favor of OpenWeather some time ago. Dropped WU, this is not the manufacturer. I think when this code was updated OW had more options. Now it isn't. It took a little reading to figure out why the prediction on the device screen was completely wrong. I thought the sensor data would appear instantly on the OLED display, but that doesn't seem to be the case. You'll need some soldering to place the header pins on the boards, but it's easy enough. If you did not connect everything correctly, the program will constantly reconnect to the WiFi. First, make sure the OLED panel is set up so you can see what's going on. I had a bad connection to the pressure sensor which caused it to "reboot" to look for it. Once detected, it completes startup and works well even if you lose connection after the fact. So when you see Connecting.and data is displayed on OLED. and reconnects. There is a sensor that is not found. You can use the Arduino IDE's serial protocol for real-time monitoring and it will tell you what's wrong. Kudos to the team for posting text about issues. Now we have to change the bits of the OLED to get the data as the prediction is not available.

Pros
  • nice thing
Cons
  • no machine gun