Temperature and Humidity check with Web Browser

Garin Ichsan Nugraha
Garin ESP32 DEVKIT
Published in
4 min readMar 30, 2020

Hello again, today we’ll try to configure DHT11 with web server so you can check the temperature and humidity around you with your web browser. So here is our schematic this time.

After you finish building that schematic, you can start to code it using Arduino IDE with the code below.

/*********
Rui Santos
Complete project details at https://randomnerdtutorials.com
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// Import required libraries
#include "WiFi.h"
#include "ESPAsyncWebServer.h"
#include <Adafruit_Sensor.h>
#include <DHT.h>

// Replace with your network credentials
const char* ssid = "REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_SSID";
const char* password = "REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_PASSWORD";

#define DHTPIN 27 // Digital pin connected to the DHT sensor

// Uncomment the type of sensor in use:
//#define DHTTYPE DHT11 // DHT 11
#define DHTTYPE DHT22 // DHT 22 (AM2302)
//#define DHTTYPE DHT21 // DHT 21 (AM2301)

DHT dht(DHTPIN, DHTTYPE);

// Create AsyncWebServer object on port 80
AsyncWebServer server(80);

String readDHTTemperature() {
// Sensor readings may also be up to 2 seconds 'old' (its a very slow sensor)
// Read temperature as Celsius (the default)
float t = dht.readTemperature();
// Read temperature as Fahrenheit (isFahrenheit = true)
//float t = dht.readTemperature(true);
// Check if any reads failed and exit early (to try again).
if (isnan(t)) {
Serial.println("Failed to read from DHT sensor!");
return "--";
}
else {
Serial.println(t);
return String(t);
}
}

String readDHTHumidity() {
// Sensor readings may also be up to 2 seconds 'old' (its a very slow sensor)
float h = dht.readHumidity();
if (isnan(h)) {
Serial.println("Failed to read from DHT sensor!");
return "--";
}
else {
Serial.println(h);
return String(h);
}
}

const char index_html[] PROGMEM = R"rawliteral(
<!DOCTYPE HTML><html>
<head>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.7.2/css/all.css" integrity="sha384-fnmOCqbTlWIlj8LyTjo7mOUStjsKC4pOpQbqyi7RrhN7udi9RwhKkMHpvLbHG9Sr" crossorigin="anonymous">
<style>
html {
font-family: Arial;
display: inline-block;
margin: 0px auto;
text-align: center;
}
h2 { font-size: 3.0rem; }
p { font-size: 3.0rem; }
.units { font-size: 1.2rem; }
.dht-labels{
font-size: 1.5rem;
vertical-align:middle;
padding-bottom: 15px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h2>ESP32 DHT Server</h2>
<p>
<i class="fas fa-thermometer-half" style="color:#059e8a;"></i>
<span class="dht-labels">Temperature</span>
<span id="temperature">%TEMPERATURE%</span>
<sup class="units">&deg;C</sup>
</p>
<p>
<i class="fas fa-tint" style="color:#00add6;"></i>
<span class="dht-labels">Humidity</span>
<span id="humidity">%HUMIDITY%</span>
<sup class="units">%</sup>
</p>
</body>
<script>
setInterval(function ( ) {
var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
document.getElementById("temperature").innerHTML = this.responseText;
}
};
xhttp.open("GET", "/temperature", true);
xhttp.send();
}, 10000 ) ;

setInterval(function ( ) {
var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
document.getElementById("humidity").innerHTML = this.responseText;
}
};
xhttp.open("GET", "/humidity", true);
xhttp.send();
}, 10000 ) ;
</script>
</html>)rawliteral";

// Replaces placeholder with DHT values
String processor(const String& var){
//Serial.println(var);
if(var == "TEMPERATURE"){
return readDHTTemperature();
}
else if(var == "HUMIDITY"){
return readDHTHumidity();
}
return String();
}

void setup(){
// Serial port for debugging purposes
Serial.begin(115200);

dht.begin();

// Connect to Wi-Fi
WiFi.begin(ssid, password);
while (WiFi.status() != WL_CONNECTED) {
delay(1000);
Serial.println("Connecting to WiFi..");
}

// Print ESP32 Local IP Address
Serial.println(WiFi.localIP());

// Route for root / web page
server.on("/", HTTP_GET, [](AsyncWebServerRequest *request){
request->send_P(200, "text/html", index_html, processor);
});
server.on("/temperature", HTTP_GET, [](AsyncWebServerRequest *request){
request->send_P(200, "text/plain", readDHTTemperature().c_str());
});
server.on("/humidity", HTTP_GET, [](AsyncWebServerRequest *request){
request->send_P(200, "text/plain", readDHTHumidity().c_str());
});

// Start server
server.begin();
}

void loop(){

}

After you’ve done compiling and run it in your ESP32, try open your Arduino IDE’s serial monitor and you’ll see something like the pictures below.

Unfortunately, my DHT11 broken, so i can demonstrate it perfectly for you guys, but you’ll see something like this in your web browser after you open those IP Address.

Isn’t it make our life easier if we can check our surrounding temperature and humidity with our web browser?! Try it yourself!

See ya in our next project!!

P.S. We’re really sorry we can’t demonstrate it until finish because of our broken sensor. And we can’t borrow another sensor because of the pandemic that we face now. Hope you all safe, don’t forget to maintain your healthy life and do every preventif action that possible to prevent our self from getting this virus.

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