ESP8266 Weather Station and Weather Instrument Kit,NodeMCU ESP8266 Integrated 0.96'' OLED Board DHT-11 Temperature Humidity BMP-180 Atmospheric Pressure BH1750 Light Sensor for Arduino IoT Starter

Read the other reviews as there seem to be varying models from this page as the product goes in and out of stock. My model matched the documentation for all of the proper pin outs and setting up the code with the chipsets.Needs on your end to get this working properly:You do need to solder. For my kit this was two sensors.You do need to set up an account (free) on ThingSpeak to have the data logging of all the sensors (the "Weather Instrument").You do need to set up an account (free) on OpenWeatherMap to display local (or wherever you set the area) weather (the "Weather Station").You will need WiFi to connect the device to the internet, if you want to log directly to a service or pull weather information for whatever area you want to display.All in all, I got the kit up and running properly in less than 3 hours, so not bad! A note for ThingSpeak is that the free accounts can log every 15 seconds, where the source provided is set for every 120 seconds. You can change the given to the below:uploadTime > 15000Also, the weather station needs to have location and time, so you'll need to look up on OpenWeatherMap the area and pull the number of what that is, and set your time zone properly.TZ for UTC (negatives should work)OPEN_WEATHER_MAP_LOCATION_ID for the place you are and can be found on the web page when you look it up on that website.

The product comes with a USB thumb drive that has clearish instructions on installing the software, however you won't be so lucky with the hardware instructions. After pouring over the included instructional materials I was unable to make heads or tails out of the clear as mud hardware information...because that all it really is, clear as mud hardware information.The quality of the product is well built and the appearance is good. However when you unable to figure out what to do with hardware like a temperature sensor it does not feel like a good value for the money.

Kit works great but must use older arduino libraries.I attached images of my platformio.ini, directory structure, and what other libraries I had to use to get it working.Once the kit is fully up and running you'll notice that the screen shows OpenWeather data and ThinkSpeak shows the actual sensor data.

I love this thing, but you need to be aware that the Git Repository for this is archived and not up to date. You're not going to be able to plug and play with this and the directions are out of date. The directions will get you 85% to 90% of the way there, but you will need to do some research on your own and tinker to get this to work. There is lots of documentation on the web in regards to each sensor and the ESP8266 board. If you are into that, like I am, you'll love this. If not you'll want to try something else. This involves some programming, especially if you want to tweak the outputs so a basic understanding of how to read code is a must.

Getting an account for the keys is a PITA. Once i got the keys, I built the circuit only to find out there was no cable in the kit, I rummaged through all my cables and found one. Due to the lack of reasonable documentation, configuration of the program was a PITA as well. There are lots of settings that you must carefully go through the program to find and set for your specific configuration. Started up the Weather Station only to see that it was not functional. Did a multi rinse and repeat on wiring up the circuit, finally convinced myself one of the parts was bad. So I grabbed my trusty Arduino Uno and wrote code to test each part, found that the DHT11 was DOA. So I got new parts and tested them and they checked out, plugged it in and configured the software and loaded it onto the ESP. Program woke up and showed the time, it was wrong, missed a config. fixed the time offset and re-programmed. Time came up correct, display switched to temp and no matter if it was F or C it displayed 0.0 when display switched to the 3 day forecast, it shown "Wed, Wed, Wed" never mind that its Saturday. The Weather Station never displayed pressure form BMP180, or GY-30 light intensity display or DHT11 Temperature or Humidity locally so why are these there? Anyway, the only thing that went well is the ESP8266 uploaded and downloaded to the web sites smoothly. It was easy to connect to the network. In a nut shell what was advertised is not what you get, what you get are a bunch of low cost knockoffs for components and someone elses fragmented code. IF you want to learn a lot this is the kit for you, me I just wanted to assemble it and turn it on. Not going to do this again. In hind site I should of created the code myself and purchased higher quality parts, I would have been much happier! My experience level is fairly good since I built my own Programmable PID controller, including making my own PCB for it.

The kit is sold as a "Weather Station" and you can certainly use it for that! However, the ESP8266 processor and display can be used for all sorts of projects, either as they come or with additional sensors. I added a moisture sensor and with a bit of code quickly had it monitoring soil moisture for my plant (next will be adding a pump so it can water it when needed). Great starting kit with a lot of room to learn and grow!

I'm just using the temperature sensor on this to hook into my home assistant and it works great. No hiccups at all.

was curious and it was cheap, bad: wont work on mac. two hours lost. will work on pc but only a certain version of arduino and on my version of windows you cant install the libraries. three hours lost. soldering the wires did not go as easy as usual. dont know why. one of the systems you create an account on was down for many hours so couldnt run. Good: i did eventually get it to work. you will learn a lot in solving the problems listed above and the smoke that arose when i first turned it on doesnt seem to have caused any long term problems. as i said soldering did not go well. but you can comment out that part and just get weather and only use the oled screen.