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Writer's pictureRamesh G

ESP32 DHT Weather Monitor with 3.5inch TFT touch Display

Updated: Sep 18


In this tutorial, I 'll Published an ESP32 based webserver to display the temperature and humidity values from the DHT11 sensor. ESP32 board will read the temperature and humidity data from the DHT11 sensor and display it on the Webpage and 3.5inch TFT Display. The 3.5″ TFT Touch Screen Display uses an ILI9488 TFT LCD Driver. The screen resolution is 320×480.


Components Required

  • ESP-32 Module (38Pin)

  • DHT11 Sensor Module

  • 3.5 inch TFT LCD Display Module SPI Interface 320x480 with Touch Screen

  • Jumper Wires

Circuit Diagram

ESP32 Development Board WiFi+Bluetooth 38 Pin

ESP32 Development board is based on the ESP WROOM32 WIFI + BLE Module.It’s a low-footprint, minimal system development board powered by the latest ESP-WROOM-32 module and can be easily inserted into a solderless breadboard. It contains the entire basic support circuitry for the ESP-WROOM-32, including the USB-UART bridge, reset- and boot-mode buttons, LDO regulator and a micro-USB connector. Every important GPIO is available to the developer.

ESP32 Development Board Feature: ESP32 is already integrated antenna and RF balun,power amplifier,low-noise amplifiers,filters,and power management module. This board is used with 2.4 GHz dual-mode Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chips by TSMC 40nm low power technology,power and RF properties best,which is safe,reliable,and scalable to a variety of applications. Strong function with support LWIP protocol,Freertos. Supporting three modes:AP,STA,and AP+STA. Supporting Lua program,easily to develop.

3.5 inch TFT LCD Display Module SPI Interface 320x480 with Touch Screen


This TFT display is big bright and colorful! 480×320 pixels with individual RGB pixel control, this has way more resolution than a black and white 128×64 display.

As a bonus, this display has a resistive touch screen attached to it already, so you can detect finger presses anywhere on the screen. This display has a controller built into it with RAM buffering so that almost no work is done by the microcontroller.


This 3.5-inch SPI Touch Screen Module is wrapped up into an easy-to-use breakout board, with SPI connections on one end. If you’re going with SPI mode, you can also take advantage of the onboard MicroSD card socket to display images.

The 3.5-inch display doesn't have a built-in level shifter, so it's advised to use only 3.3v. Using a node MCU would be more suitable cause it provides only 3.3v. if you are using a 5v microcontroller like the Arduino UNO, MEGA, Using a level shifter would give you the appropriate voltage needed to operate the LCD without damaging it.

Specifications:

  • 3.5-inch color screen,support 65K color display,display rich colors

  • Touch: Resistive

  • Display Size: 3.5 inch

  • Operating Voltage (V): 3.3 to 5V

  • SPI Signal Voltage (V): 3.3 to 5V

  • Display Driver IC: ILI9488

  • Touch Driver IC:

  • Color Depth: 262K/65K

  • Resolution (pixels): 320 x 480

  • Using the SPI serial bus, it only takes a few IOs to illuminate the display

  • Easy to expand the experiment with SD card slot

DATA SHEET Download

3.5 inch TFT LCD SPI Module Manual Download


Installing the library

To install the library navigate to the Sketch > Include Library > Manage Libraries… Wait for Library Manager to download libraries index and update list of installed libraries.


Download TFT Library , we need to use this library for TFT touch display

Download DHT Library , we need to use this library for Temperature sensor.


In your Arduino IDE, to install the libraries go to Sketch > Include Library > Add .ZIP library… and select the library you’ve just downloaded.


After Arduino IDE installed, there is no package to support ESP32-S2, we need to install the ESP32 package in Arduino IDE to continue.

Select “File>Preferences>settings>Additional Boards Manager URLs” to fill the link: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/gh-pages/package_esp32_dev_index.json


arduino code



#define RED2RED 0

#define GREEN2GREEN 1

#define BLUE2BLUE 2

#define BLUE2RED 3

#define GREEN2RED 4

#define RED2GREEN 5


#define TFT_GREY 0x2104 // Dark grey 16 bit colour


#include <TFT_eSPI.h> // Hardware-specific library

#include <SPI.h>


TFT_eSPI tft = TFT_eSPI(); // Invoke custom library with default width and height


uint32_t runTime = -99999; // time for next update


int reading = 0; // Value to be displayed

int reading2 = 0; // Value to be displayed

int d = 0; // Variable used for the sinewave test waveform

bool range_error = 0;

int8_t ramp = 1;


#include <WiFi.h>

const char* ssid = "TP-Link_3200"; // Your ssid

const char* password = "95001121379884265554"; // Your Password

char status;

WiFiServer server(80);


#include <DHT.h>

#define DHT_SENSOR_PIN 12 // ESP32 pin connected to DHT11 sensor

#define DHT_SENSOR_TYPE DHT11

DHT dht_sensor(DHT_SENSOR_PIN, DHT_SENSOR_TYPE);



void setup(void) {

tft.begin();

Serial.begin(9600);

dht_sensor.begin(); // initialize the DHT sensor

tft.setRotation(1);


tft.fillScreen(TFT_WHITE);


Serial.print("Connecting to ");

Serial.println(ssid);

WiFi.begin(ssid, password);

while (WiFi.status() != WL_CONNECTED) {

delay(500);

Serial.print(".");

}

Serial.println("");

Serial.println("WiFi is connected");

server.begin();

Serial.println("Server started");

Serial.println(WiFi.localIP());

delay(5000);

}



void loop() {

if (millis() - runTime >= 0L) { // Execute every TBD ms

runTime = millis();


// Test with a slowly changing value from a Sine function

//d += 4; if (d >= 360) d = 0;


// Set the the position, gap between meters, and inner radius of the meters

int xpos = 0, ypos = 5, gap = 4, radius = 52;


// Draw meter and get back x position of next meter


// Test with Sine wave function, normally reading will be from a sensor

//reading = 250 + 250 * sineWave(d+0);

//xpos = gap + ringMeter(reading, 0, 500, xpos, ypos, radius, "mA", GREEN2RED); // Draw analogue meter


//reading = 20 + 30 * sineWave(d+60);

//xpos = gap + ringMeter(reading, -10, 50, xpos, ypos, radius, "degC", BLUE2RED); // Draw analogue meter


//reading = 50 + 50 * sineWave(d + 120);

//ringMeter(reading, 0, 100, xpos, ypos, radius, "%RH", BLUE2BLUE); // Draw analogue meter



// Draw two more larger meters

//xpos = 20, ypos = 115, gap = 24, radius = 64;


//reading = 1000 + 150 * sineWave(d + 90);

//xpos = gap + ringMeter(reading, 850, 1150, xpos, ypos, radius, "mb", BLUE2RED); // Draw analogue meter


//reading = 15 + 15 * sineWave(d + 150);

//xpos = gap + ringMeter(reading, 0, 30, xpos, ypos, radius, "Volts", GREEN2GREEN); // Draw analogue meter


// read humidity

float humi = dht_sensor.readHumidity();

// read temperature in Celsius

float tempC = dht_sensor.readTemperature();

// read temperature in Fahrenheit

float tempF = dht_sensor.readTemperature(true);

// check whether the reading is successful or not

if ( isnan(tempC) || isnan(tempF) || isnan(humi)) {

Serial.println("Failed to read from DHT sensor!");

} else {

Serial.print("Humidity: ");

Serial.print(humi);

Serial.print("%");


Serial.print(" | ");


Serial.print("Temperature: ");

Serial.print(tempC);

Serial.print("°C ~ ");

Serial.print(tempF);

Serial.println("°F");

}

// Draw a large meter

xpos = 20, ypos = 30, gap = 2, radius = 100;

// reading +=(ramp);

// if (reading>98) ramp = -1;

// if (reading<0) ramp = 1;

reading = tempC;

// Comment out above meters, then uncomment the next line to show large meter

ringMeter(reading,0,100, xpos,ypos,radius,"°C",GREEN2GREEN); // Draw analogue meter

if (reading<0) delay(500);


tft.setCursor(10, 250, 4);

// Set the font colour to be white with a black background, set text size multiplier to 1

tft.setTextColor(TFT_BLACK,TFT_WHITE); tft.setTextSize(1);

// We can now plot text on screen using the "print" class

tft.drawString("`", 101, 186, 4); // prints °

tft.print("Temperature:");

tft.print(tempC);

tft.print(" ");

// Draw a large meter

xpos = 245, ypos = 30, gap = 2, radius = 100;

// reading +=(ramp);

// if (reading>98) ramp = -1;

// if (reading<0) ramp = 1;

reading2 = humi;

// Comment out above meters, then uncomment the next line to show large meter

ringMeter2(reading2,0,100, xpos,ypos,radius," %h",RED2RED); // Draw analogue meter

if (reading2<0) delay(500);


tft.setCursor(265, 250, 4);

// Set the font colour to be white with a black background, set text size multiplier to 1

tft.setTextColor(TFT_BLACK,TFT_WHITE); tft.setTextSize(1);

// We can now plot text on screen using the "print" class

// tft.drawString("`", 101, 186, 4); // prints °

tft.print("Humidity:");

tft.print(humi);

tft.print(" ");

}

// read humidity

float humi = dht_sensor.readHumidity();

// read temperature in Celsius

float tempC = dht_sensor.readTemperature();

WiFiClient client = server.available();

client.println("HTTP/1.1 200 OK");

client.println("Content-Type: text/html");

client.println("Connection: close"); // the connection will be closed after completion of the response

client.println("Refresh: 10"); // update the page after 10 sec

client.println();

client.println("<!DOCTYPE HTML>");

client.println("<html>");

client.println("<head>");

client.println("<style>html { font-family: Fantasy; display: block; margin: 0px auto; text-align: center;color: #6b4e4b; background-color: #fcffb3;}");

client.println("body{margin-top: 50px;}");

client.println("h1 {margin: 50px auto 30px; font-size: 50px; text-align: center;}");

client.println(".side_adjust{display: inline-block;vertical-align: middle;position: relative;}");

client.println(".text1{font-weight: 180; padding-left: 15px; font-size: 50px; width: 170px; text-align: left; color: #e8361e;}");

client.println(".data1{font-weight: 180; padding-left: 80px; font-size: 50px;color: #e8361e;}");

client.println(".text2{font-weight: 180; font-size: 50px; width: 170px; text-align: left; color: #1bf246;}");

client.println(".data2{font-weight: 180; padding-left: 150px; font-size: 50px;color: #1bf246;}");

client.println(".data{padding: 10px;}");

client.println("</style>");

client.println("</head>");

client.println("<body>");

client.println("<div id=\"webpage\">");

client.println("<h1>ESP32 Based Temperature & Humidity Data</h1>");

client.println("<div class=\"data\">");

client.println("<div class=\"side_adjust text2\">Temperature:</div>");

client.println("<div class=\"side_adjust data2\">");

client.print(tempC);

client.println("<div class=\"side_adjust text2\">&degC</div>");

client.println("</div>");

client.println("<div class=\"data\">");

client.println("<div class=\"side_adjust text1\">Humidity:</div>");

client.println("<div class=\"side_adjust data1\">");

client.print(humi);

client.println("<div class=\"side_adjust text1\">%</div>");

client.println("</div>");

client.println("</div>");

client.println("</body>");

client.println("</html>");

}


// #########################################################################

// Draw the meter on the screen, returns x coord of righthand side

// #########################################################################


int ringMeter(int value, int vmin, int vmax, int x, int y, int r, const char *units, byte scheme)


{


// Minimum value of r is about 52 before value text intrudes on ring

// drawing the text first is an option

x += r; y += r; // Calculate coords of centre of ring


int w = r / 3; // Width of outer ring is 1/4 of radius

int angle = 150; // Half the sweep angle of meter (300 degrees)


int v = map(value, vmin, vmax, -angle, angle); // Map the value to an angle v

//int v = map(value, vmin, vmax, -angle, angle); // Map the value to an angle v

byte seg = 3; // Segments are 3 degrees wide = 100 segments for 300 degrees

byte inc = 3; // Draw segments every 3 degrees, increase to 6 for segmented ring


// Variable to save "value" text colour from scheme and set default

int colour = TFT_BLACK;

// Draw colour blocks every inc degrees

for (int i = -angle+inc/2; i < angle-inc/2; i += inc) {

// Calculate pair of coordinates for segment start

float sx = cos((i - 90) * 0.0174532925);

float sy = sin((i - 90) * 0.0174532925);

uint16_t x0 = sx * (r - w) + x;

uint16_t y0 = sy * (r - w) + y;

uint16_t x1 = sx * r + x;

uint16_t y1 = sy * r + y;


// Calculate pair of coordinates for segment end

float sx2 = cos((i + seg - 90) * 0.0174532925);

float sy2 = sin((i + seg - 90) * 0.0174532925);

int x2 = sx2 * (r - w) + x;

int y2 = sy2 * (r - w) + y;

int x3 = sx2 * r + x;

int y3 = sy2 * r + y;


if (i < v) { // Fill in coloured segments with 2 triangles

switch (scheme) {

case 0: colour = TFT_RED; break; // Fixed colour

case 1: colour = TFT_GREEN; break; // Fixed colour

case 2: colour = TFT_BLUE; break; // Fixed colour

default: colour = TFT_YELLOW; break; // Fixed colour

}

tft.fillTriangle(x0, y0, x1, y1, x2, y2, colour);

tft.fillTriangle(x1, y1, x2, y2, x3, y3, colour);

//text_colour = colour; // Save the last colour drawn

}

else // Fill in blank segments

{

tft.fillTriangle(x0, y0, x1, y1, x2, y2, TFT_GREY);

tft.fillTriangle(x1, y1, x2, y2, x3, y3, TFT_GREY);

}

}

// Convert value to a string

char buf[10];

byte len = 3; if (value > 999) len = 5;

dtostrf(value, len, 0, buf);

buf[len] = ' '; buf[len+1] = 0; // Add blanking space and terminator, helps to centre text too!

// Set the text colour to default

tft.setTextSize(1);



tft.setTextColor(TFT_WHITE, TFT_BLACK);

// Uncomment next line to set the text colour to the last segment value!

tft.setTextColor(colour, TFT_WHITE);

tft.setTextDatum(MC_DATUM);

// Print value, if the meter is large then use big font 8, othewise use 4

if (r > 84) {

tft.setTextPadding(25*3); // Allow for 3 digits each 55 pixels wide

tft.drawString(buf, x, y, 6); // Value in middle

}

else {

tft.setTextPadding(3 * 7); // Allow for 3 digits each 14 pixels wide

tft.drawString(buf, x, y, 6); // Value in middle

}

tft.setTextSize(1);

tft.setTextPadding(0);

// Print units, if the meter is large then use big font 4, othewise use 2

tft.setTextColor(TFT_BLACK,TFT_WHITE);

if (r > 84) tft.drawString(units, x, y + 60, 4); // Units display

else tft.drawString(units, x, y + 15, 2); // Units display


// Calculate and return right hand side x coordinate

return x + r;

}



// #########################################################################

// Draw the meter on the screen, returns x coord of righthand side

// #########################################################################


int ringMeter2(int value, int vmin, int vmax, int x, int y, int r, const char *units, byte scheme)


{


// Minimum value of r is about 52 before value text intrudes on ring

// drawing the text first is an option

x += r; y += r; // Calculate coords of centre of ring


int w = r / 3; // Width of outer ring is 1/4 of radius

int angle = 150; // Half the sweep angle of meter (300 degrees)


int v = map(value, vmin, vmax, -angle, angle); // Map the value to an angle v

//int v = map(value, vmin, vmax, -angle, angle); // Map the value to an angle v

byte seg = 3; // Segments are 3 degrees wide = 100 segments for 300 degrees

byte inc = 3; // Draw segments every 3 degrees, increase to 6 for segmented ring


// Variable to save "value" text colour from scheme and set default

int colour = TFT_BLACK;

// Draw colour blocks every inc degrees

for (int i = -angle+inc/2; i < angle-inc/2; i += inc) {

// Calculate pair of coordinates for segment start

float sx = cos((i - 90) * 0.0174532925);

float sy = sin((i - 90) * 0.0174532925);

uint16_t x0 = sx * (r - w) + x;

uint16_t y0 = sy * (r - w) + y;

uint16_t x1 = sx * r + x;

uint16_t y1 = sy * r + y;


// Calculate pair of coordinates for segment end

float sx2 = cos((i + seg - 90) * 0.0174532925);

float sy2 = sin((i + seg - 90) * 0.0174532925);

int x2 = sx2 * (r - w) + x;

int y2 = sy2 * (r - w) + y;

int x3 = sx2 * r + x;

int y3 = sy2 * r + y;


if (i < v) { // Fill in coloured segments with 2 triangles

switch (scheme) {

case 0: colour = TFT_RED; break; // Fixed colour

case 1: colour = TFT_GREEN; break; // Fixed colour

case 2: colour = TFT_BLUE; break; // Fixed colour

default: colour = TFT_YELLOW; break; // Fixed colour

}

tft.fillTriangle(x0, y0, x1, y1, x2, y2, colour);

tft.fillTriangle(x1, y1, x2, y2, x3, y3, colour);

//text_colour = colour; // Save the last colour drawn

}

else // Fill in blank segments

{

tft.fillTriangle(x0, y0, x1, y1, x2, y2, TFT_GREY);

tft.fillTriangle(x1, y1, x2, y2, x3, y3, TFT_GREY);

}

}

// Convert value to a string

char buf[10];

byte len = 3; if (value > 999) len = 5;

dtostrf(value, len, 0, buf);

buf[len] = ' '; buf[len+1] = 0; // Add blanking space and terminator, helps to centre text too!

// Set the text colour to default

tft.setTextSize(1);



tft.setTextColor(TFT_BLACK,TFT_WHITE);

// Uncomment next line to set the text colour to the last segment value!

tft.setTextColor(colour, TFT_WHITE);

tft.setTextDatum(MC_DATUM);

// Print value, if the meter is large then use big font 8, othewise use 4

if (r > 84) {

tft.setTextPadding(25*3); // Allow for 3 digits each 55 pixels wide

tft.drawString(buf, x, y, 6); // Value in middle

}

else {

tft.setTextPadding(3 * 7); // Allow for 3 digits each 14 pixels wide

tft.drawString(buf, x, y, 6); // Value in middle

}

tft.setTextSize(1);

tft.setTextPadding(0);

// Print units, if the meter is large then use big font 4, othewise use 2

tft.setTextColor(TFT_BLACK,TFT_WHITE);

if (r > 84) tft.drawString(units, x, y + 60, 4); // Units display

else tft.drawString(units, x, y + 15, 2); // Units display


// Calculate and return right hand side x coordinate

return x + r;

}




// #########################################################################

// Return a value in range -1 to +1 for a given phase angle in degrees

// #########################################################################

float sineWave(int phase) {

return sin(phase * 0.0174532925);

}



//====================================================================================

// This is the function to draw the icon stored as an array in program memory (FLASH)

//====================================================================================


// To speed up rendering we use a 64 pixel buffer

#define BUFF_SIZE 64


// Draw array "icon" of defined width and height at coordinate x,y

// Maximum icon size is 255x255 pixels to avoid integer overflow


void drawIcon(const unsigned short* icon, int16_t x, int16_t y, int8_t width, int8_t height) {


uint16_t pix_buffer[BUFF_SIZE]; // Pixel buffer (16 bits per pixel)


tft.startWrite();


// Set up a window the right size to stream pixels into

tft.setAddrWindow(x, y, width, height);


// Work out the number whole buffers to send

uint16_t nb = ((uint16_t)height * width) / BUFF_SIZE;


// Fill and send "nb" buffers to TFT

for (int i = 0; i < nb; i++) {

for (int j = 0; j < BUFF_SIZE; j++) {

pix_buffer[j] = pgm_read_word(&icon[i * BUFF_SIZE + j]);

}

tft.pushColors(pix_buffer, BUFF_SIZE);

}


// Work out number of pixels not yet sent

uint16_t np = ((uint16_t)height * width) % BUFF_SIZE;


// Send any partial buffer left over

if (np) {

for (int i = 0; i < np; i++) pix_buffer[i] = pgm_read_word(&icon[nb * BUFF_SIZE + i]);

tft.pushColors(pix_buffer, np);

}


tft.endWrite();

}


After a successful upload, open the Serial Monitor at a baud rate of 9600. Press the “EN/RST” button on the ESP32 board and see the IP address in serial monitor.

After that Open the web browser and enter the IP address path for DHT11 Weather data.

Demo:




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