Published February 12, 2016 © GPL3+

Portable Arduino Temp/Humidity Sensor with LCD

This is an Arduino Uno with a DHT11 temp/humidity sensor with and LCD screen powered by a power bank.

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Portable Arduino Temp/Humidity Sensor with LCD

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Arduino UNO

DHT11 Temperature & Humidity Sensor (4 pins)

Adafruit RGB Backlight LCD - 16x2

Resistor 10k ohm

Power Bank

SparkFun Pushbutton switch 12mm

USB-A to B Cable

Jumper wires (generic)

Breadboard (generic)

Story

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I am going to show you how I made a temp and humidity sensor with an Arduino Uno. My end goal is to make one with an Attiny84 and etch a PCB for it. While I do have the parts and pieces to do this, the weather outside is not cooperating. It is hard to etch a board in my garage at less than 10 degrees Fahrenheit. That will be a different instructable for a later date.

Thanks again for taking time to read my project.

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To start out, the following is required for this project:

All parts can be purchased at sparkfun or adafruit. Or you can do as I do and salvage as much as you can from old devices.

Arduino (I used an UNO R3, but 5V any will work)

Breadboard

DHT11 temperature and humidity sensor

10k ohm potentiometer

16x2 LCD screen

tactile button

USB A-B cable

Power Bank

Jumper Wires

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Now it is time to attach all the wires to the devices. Please refer to the Fritzing schematic (please note I do not have jumper wires between the two power rails on the breadboard. you will need them if you use both):

The LCD display I am using was recovered from an old fire alarm annunciator panel. Pins 15 & 16 are located before Pin 1 and instead of Pin 16 being Gnd, it is actually 5v and Pin 15 is Gnd. Please double check your own display and make sure your pins are correct. As my display pinout is most likely different from almost everybody else, I have made the Fritzing schematic with the "standard" display instead of my exact pinout.

Uno

Gnd --> negative rail on breadboard

5v --> positive rail on breadboard

DTH11

Pin1 --> 5v and 10k ohm resistor

Pin2 --> Arduino Pin8 and 10k ohm resistor

Pin3 --> no connection

Pin4 --> Gnd

16x2 LCD Screen

Pin1 --> Gnd

Pin2 --> 5v

Pin3 --> 10k ohm potentiometer wiper pin ( middle pin. the other two pins on the POT go to 5v and Gnd)

Pin4 --> Arduino Pin12

Pin5 --> Gnd

Pin6 --> Arduino Pin11

Pin7 --> no connection

Pin8 --> no connection

Pin9 --> no connection

Pin10 --> no connection

Pin11 --> Arduino Pin5

Pin12 --> Arduino Pin4

Pin13 --> Arduino Pin3

Pin14 --> Arduino Pin2

Pin15 --> 5v

Pin16 --> Tactile button (other side of tack button goes to Gnd)

CODE

Attached is the code:

I used the DHT library from Adafruit.

https://github.com/adafruit/DHT-sensor-library

FINISHED!

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After all of the wiring, plug your power bank to the Arduino.

Your LCD display and DHT11 should start up. Press the tact button and your LCD backlight should light up.

Now you have a portable temperature and humidity sensor with a real time display.

This has helped me determine my draftiest windows in my house and how best to set my house ventilation.

Thanks again for taking the time to read my first project.

Code

Code

// include the library code:
#include <LiquidCrystal.h>
#include "DHT.h"

// set the DHT Pin
#define DHTPIN 8

// initialize the library with the numbers of the interface pins
LiquidCrystal lcd(12, 11, 5, 4, 3, 2);
#define DHTTYPE DHT11
DHT dht(DHTPIN, DHTTYPE);

void setup() {
  // set up the LCD's number of columns and rows: 
  lcd.begin(16, 2);
  dht.begin();
  
  // Print a message to the LCD.
  lcd.print("Temp:  Humidity:");
}

void loop() {
  delay(500);
  // set the cursor to column 0, line 1
  // (note: line 1 is the second row, since counting begins with 0):
  lcd.setCursor(0, 1);
  // read humidity
  float h = dht.readHumidity();
  //read temperature in Fahrenheit
  float f = dht.readTemperature(true);

  if (isnan(h) || isnan(f)) {
    lcd.print("ERROR");
    return;
  }

  lcd.print(f);
  lcd.setCursor(7,1);
  lcd.print(h);  
}

Credits

ThothLoki

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Portable Arduino Temp/Humidity Sensor with LCD

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