Stephen Borsay
Published © GPL3+

Send ESP8266 Data to Your Webpage - no AT Commands!

This project continues my series of transmitting data about the web. This time its sending sensor data to your own webpage!

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Send ESP8266 Data to Your Webpage - no AT Commands!

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Adafruit Feather HUZZAH with ESP8266 WiFi
Adafruit Feather HUZZAH with ESP8266 WiFi
any 8266 will do
×1
Jumper wires (generic)
Jumper wires (generic)
×1
DHT11 Temperature & Humidity Sensor (4 pins)
DHT11 Temperature & Humidity Sensor (4 pins)
×1
USB-A to Micro-USB Cable
USB-A to Micro-USB Cable
×1

Software apps and online services

Arduino IDE
Arduino IDE
NodeMCU firmware
NodeMCU firmware

Story

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Schematics

Circuit

esp8266 with wires

Code

dataCollector.php

PHP
PHP code for accepting our environmental variables through $_Request(POSTand GET) over the web and our PHP files creates an HTML fill with our data called dataDisplayer.html
<?php

/*
  ESP8266: send data to your Domain(or mine)
  Embedded-iot.net/dht11/dataCollector.php

  Uses POST command to send DHT data to a designated website
  The circuit:
  * DHT
  * Post to Domain

   Stephen Borsay
   Embedded-iot.net
   www.udemy.com/all-about-arduino-wireless
   https://www.hackster.io/detox
   https://github.com/sborsay/Arduino_Wireless
*/


date_default_timezone_set("America/Los_Angeles");
$TimeStamp = "The current time is " . date("h:i:sa");
file_put_contents('dataDisplayer.html', $TimeStamp, FILE_APPEND);


   if( $_REQUEST["Humidity"] ||  $_REQUEST["Temperature_Cel"] ||
                      $_REQUEST["Temperature_Fehr"]
       ||  $_REQUEST["HeatIndex_Cel"] ||  $_REQUEST["HeatIndex_Fehr"] ) 
   {
   echo " The Humidity is: ". $_REQUEST['Humidity']. "%<br />";
   echo " The Temperature is: ". $_REQUEST['Temperature_Cel']. " Celcius<br />";
   echo " The Temperature is: ". $_REQUEST['Temperature_Fehr']. " Fehr<br />";
   echo " The Heat Index: ". $_REQUEST['HeatIndex_Cel']. " Heat Idx Cel<br />";
   echo " The Heat Index: ". $_REQUEST['HeatIndex_Fehr']. " Heat Idx Fehr<br />";
   }
	  
	
$var1 = $_REQUEST['Humidity'];
$var2 = $_REQUEST['Temperature_Cel'];
$var3 = $_REQUEST['Temperature_Fehr'];
$var4 = $_REQUEST['HeatIndex_Cel'];
$var5 = $_REQUEST['HeatIndex_Fehr'];

$WriteMyRequest=
"<p> The Humidity is : "       . $var1 . "% </p>".
"<p>And the Temperature is : " . $var2 . " Celcius </p>".
"<p>And the Temperature is : " . $var3 . " Fehreinheit</p>".
"<p>And The Heat Index is : "  . $var4 . " Heat Index Celcius </p>".
"<p>And The Heat Index is : "  . $var5 . " Heat Index Fehrenheit </p><br/>";


file_put_contents('dataDisplayer.html', $WriteMyRequest, FILE_APPEND);


?>

ESP8266_toYourDomain

Arduino
This is the Arduino code to send a post of DHT sensor data to your .php site to display on your webpage.
/*
  ESP8266: send data to your Domain (or mine: Embedded-iot.net/dht11/dataCollector.php)(

  Uses POST command to send DHT data to a designated website
  The circuit:
  * DHT
  * Post to Domain

   Stephen Borsay
   Homepage: Embedded-iot.net
   www.udemy.com/all-about-arduino-wireless
   https://www.hackster.io/detox
   https://github.com/sborsay/Arduino_Wireless
*/

#include "ESP8266WiFi.h"
#include "DHT.h"
#define DHTPIN 2    // what digital pin we're connected to  pin2 to D4 on esp board

// Uncomment whatever DHT sensor type you're using!
#define DHTTYPE DHT11  // DHT 11
//#define DHTTYPE DHT21  // DHT 21
//#define DHTTYPE DHT22  // DHT 22

DHT dht(DHTPIN,DHTTYPE);

const char server[] = "embedded-iot.net"; 

const char* MY_SSID = "YOUR_SSID_WiFi";
const char* MY_PWD =  "YOUR_WiFi_PASSWORD";

WiFiClient client;


void setup()
{
  Serial.begin(115200);
  dht.begin();
  Serial.print("Connecting to "+*MY_SSID);
  WiFi.begin(MY_SSID, MY_PWD);
  Serial.println("going into wl connect");

  while (WiFi.status() != WL_CONNECTED) //not connected,  ...waiting to connect
    {
      delay(1000);
      Serial.print(".");
    }
  Serial.println("wl connected");
  Serial.println("");
  Serial.println("Credentials accepted! Connected to wifi\n ");
  Serial.println("");
}

void loop() {

   // Wait a few seconds between measurements.
  delay(2000);

  //prefer to use float, but package size or float conversion isnt working
  //will revise in future with a string fuction or float conversion function

  int Humidity = dht.readHumidity();
  // Read temperature as Celsius (the default)
  int Temperature_Cel = dht.readTemperature();
  // Read temperature as Fahrenheit (isFahrenheit = true)
  int Temperature_Fehr = dht.readTemperature(true);

  // Check if any reads failed and exit early (to try again).
  if (isnan(Humidity) || isnan(Temperature_Cel) || isnan(Temperature_Fehr))
  {
    Serial.println("Failed to read from DHT sensor!");
    return;
  }

  // Compute heat index in Fahrenheit (the default)
  int HeatIndex_Fehr = dht.computeHeatIndex(Temperature_Fehr, Humidity);
  // Compute heat index in Celsius (isFahreheit = false)
  int HeatIndex_Cel = dht.computeHeatIndex(Temperature_Cel, Humidity, false);

  Serial.print("Humidity: ");
  Serial.print(Humidity);
  Serial.print(" %\t");
  Serial.print("Temperature: ");
  Serial.print(Temperature_Cel);
  Serial.print(" *C ");
  Serial.print(Temperature_Fehr);
  Serial.print(" *F\t");
  Serial.print("Heat index: ");
  Serial.print(HeatIndex_Cel);
  Serial.print(" *C ");
  Serial.print(HeatIndex_Fehr);
  Serial.println(" *F\n");

    Serial.println("\nStarting connection to server..."); 
  // if you get a connection, report back via serial:
  if (client.connect(server, 80)) {
    Serial.println("connected to server");
    WiFi.printDiag(Serial);

    String data = "Humidity="
          +                        (String) Humidity
          +  "&Temperature_Cel="  +(String) Temperature_Cel
          +  "&Temperature_Fehr=" +(String) Temperature_Fehr
          +  "&HeatIndex_Cel="    +(String) HeatIndex_Cel
          +  "&HeatIndex_Fehr="   +(String) HeatIndex_Fehr;

     //change URL below if using your Sub-Domain
     client.println("POST /dht11/dataCollector.php HTTP/1.1"); 
     //change URL below if using your Domain
     client.print("Host: embedded-iot.net\n");                 
     client.println("User-Agent: ESP8266/1.0");
     client.println("Connection: close"); 
     client.println("Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
     client.print("Content-Length: ");
     client.print(data.length());
     client.print("\n\n");
     client.print(data);
     client.stop(); 
     
     Serial.println("\n");
     Serial.println("My data string im POSTing looks like this: ");
     Serial.println(data);
     Serial.println("And it is this many bytes: ");
     Serial.println(data.length());       
     delay(2000);
    } 

}


void printWifiStatus() {
  // print the SSID of the network you're attached to:
  Serial.print("SSID: ");
  Serial.println(WiFi.SSID());

  // print your WiFi shield's IP address:
  IPAddress ip = WiFi.localIP();
  Serial.print("IP Address: ");
  Serial.println(ip);

  // print the received signal strength:
  long rssi = WiFi.RSSI();
  Serial.print("signal strength (RSSI):");
  Serial.print(rssi);
  Serial.println(" dBm");
}

Github Repository of Arduino Wireless projects

Look for: ESP8266_toYourDomain.ino ESP8266_toPHP.php

Credits

Stephen Borsay

Stephen Borsay

11 projects • 73 followers
Computer Engineer: Embedded Systems and IoT. AWS IoT Hero www.udemy.com/user/stv/ device2cloud.net

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