Capturing Temperature and humidity in my dorm with ESP32s

Materials:

  • One or more ESP32 dev boards
  • One or more DHT11 temp sensors

Alternative:

  • Wemo DHT11 hat
  • Wemo D1 Mini

Intentions:

I have a Dorm at Eastern Washington University, which has a mechanical themostat located near the door of the dorm. For quite a while i have had suspitions that wasnt being fully truthful about the current temperature, my plan is the Build a Sytem to report Tmperature back to a centeralised dashboard.

Plan:

Use a bunch of ESP32s that I have laying around to gather temperature. Then send all of those results to an InfluxDB. Finally have Grafana pull down those stats to Display to the End User.

Execution:

Step 1: Setup InfluxDB

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