I started working on the ESP8266 WiFi Color Kit‘s touch interface for the WeatherStation Color. I added a few more screens and a touch screen calibration during start up.
Category: ESP8266 Weather Station
New WeatherStation Color Version published
It’s been a while since my last post, but I have been working hard on improving the WeatherStation Color. Read here the engineering challenges I had to overcome and how I solved them
ESP8266 Weather Station: Shipping From a Fulfillment Center in China
Ever since the launch of the ESP8266 Weather Station in the US Amazon store I had to ship two different versions of this product. The customized box containing the Weather Station with the NodeMCU, a OLED display, a DHT11 and some cables was only available through …
ESP8266 Programming Basics
In this post we will have a look at the building blocks of an Arduino sketch. This will help you to build your own sketch quickly. The post covers the serial console, digitalRead and digitalWrite, interrupts, analogRead and finally WiFi, http and https.
ESP8266 Weather Station Projects
In this post I’d like to show you some of the projects that other people did based on my WeatherStation library. I hope this will inspire you to get creative and extend the code with you features. Or maybe you have built a nice case …
ESP8266 WeatherStation Kit finally in US Amazon Store
More than two months ago I started the process to have my ESP8266 WeatherStation listed on Amazon. The big online platform offers a service called Fulfilled by Amazon or short FBA which allows you to send your items directly to their warehouse. Your product will …
ESP8266 Weather Station Color code published
If you don’t mind code which is a little bit rough around the edges you can start experimenting with the code for the color weather station. I just published it on Github. You can find it here: https://github.com/squix78/esp8266-weather-station-color
Font Creator Now Creates Adafruit GFX Fonts
As first task for the upcoming Weather Station Color project I wanted to adapt my online font generator. Easily creating fonts in various sizes will make work on the Weather Station code a lot easier. Since my own display library doesn’t support the color TFT …
ESP8266 WeatherStation Color
Yesterday I started playing around with a TFT color display connected to the ESP8266. First I adapted example code to download BMP files to the flash memory, and boy, this display has some nice intense colors!
ESP8266 based Plane Spotter now for Arduino IDE
I received a few complaints that users couldn’t get the Platformio IDE running since the security software detected it as malicious software. So I added the code also to the WeatherStation library as a demo project.
New Weather Station Demo on Github
I have been working on a new demo of the Weather Station which is built as a platformio project. It has a few features which are not in the library demo: Wifi Signal Quality icon in overlay Weather Icon, temperature and time in overlay By …