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Uploading data from Ultrasonic Sensor using NodeMCU to ThingSpeak
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//Woon Jun Shen | |
#include <ESP8266WiFi.h> | |
#include <OneWire.h> | |
#include <PubSubClient.h> | |
const char *ssid = "shen"; //Your Access Point or Personal Hotspot, cannot be longer than 32 characters! | |
const char *pass = "0129090100"; //Your Access Point or Personal Hotspot password | |
const char* serverTS = "api.thingspeak.com"; | |
String apiKey = "BQXNCQQJDSTXJ0JN"; //Insert your Channel API Key here | |
//const int pingPin = 2; //Ultrasonic connected to GPIO0 | |
int TRIGGER = 5; //Pin D1 = TRIGGER | |
int ECHO = 4; //Pin D2 = ECHO | |
void setup() | |
{ | |
pinMode(0,OUTPUT); //LED connected to GPIO2 | |
Serial.begin(115200); //Recommended speed is 115200 | |
pinMode(TRIGGER,OUTPUT); | |
pinMode(ECHO,INPUT); | |
connectWifi(); | |
} | |
void loop() | |
{ | |
// establish variables for duration of the ping, | |
// and the distance result in inches and centimeters: | |
long duration, inches, cm; | |
// The PING))) is triggered by a HIGH pulse of 2 or more microseconds. | |
// Give a short LOW pulse beforehand to ensure a clean HIGH pulse: | |
digitalWrite(TRIGGER, LOW); | |
delayMicroseconds(2); | |
digitalWrite(TRIGGER, HIGH); | |
delayMicroseconds(10); | |
digitalWrite(TRIGGER, LOW); | |
// The same pin is used to read the signal from the PING))): a HIGH | |
// pulse whose duration is the time (in microseconds) from the sending | |
// of the ping to the reception of its echo off of an object. | |
duration = pulseIn(ECHO, HIGH); | |
// convert the time into a distance | |
inches = microsecondsToInches(duration); | |
cm = microsecondsToCentimeters(duration); | |
Serial.print(inches); | |
Serial.print("in, "); | |
Serial.print(cm); | |
Serial.print("cm"); | |
Serial.println(); | |
delay(100); | |
digitalWrite(2, HIGH); // turn the LED on (HIGH is the voltage level) | |
delay(1000); // wait for a second | |
digitalWrite(2, LOW); // turn the LED off by making the voltage LOW | |
delay(1000); // wait for a second | |
sendHeight(cm); | |
} | |
void connectWifi() | |
{ | |
Serial.print("Connecting to "+*ssid); | |
WiFi.begin(ssid, pass); | |
while (WiFi.status() != WL_CONNECTED) { | |
delay(1000); | |
Serial.print("."); | |
} | |
Serial.println(""); | |
Serial.println("Connected"); | |
Serial.println(""); | |
}//end connect | |
long microsecondsToInches(long microseconds) | |
{ // According to Parallax's datasheet for the PING))), there are | |
// 73.746 microseconds per inch (i.e. sound travels at 1130 feet per | |
// second). This gives the distance travelled by the ping, outbound | |
// and return, so we divide by 2 to get the distance of the obstacle. | |
// See: http://www.parallax.com/dl/docs/prod/acc/28015-PING-v1.3.pdf | |
return microseconds / 74 / 2; | |
} | |
long microsecondsToCentimeters(long microseconds) { | |
// The speed of sound is 340 m/s or 29 microseconds per centimeter. | |
// The ping travels out and back, so to find the distance of the | |
// object we take half of the distance travelled. | |
return microseconds / 29 / 2; | |
} | |
void sendHeight(float cm) | |
{ | |
WiFiClient tclient;//not to be confused with "client" in PubSub{}, and wclient for mqtt | |
if (tclient.connect(serverTS, 80)) { // use ip 184.106.153.149 or api.thingspeak.com | |
//Serial.println("WiFi Client connected "); | |
String postStr = apiKey; | |
postStr += "&field1="; | |
postStr += String(cm); | |
postStr += "\r\n\r\n"; | |
tclient.print("POST /update HTTP/1.1\n"); | |
tclient.print("Host: api.thingspeak.com\n"); | |
tclient.print("Connection: close\n"); | |
tclient.print("X-THINGSPEAKAPIKEY: " + apiKey + "\n"); | |
tclient.print("Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\n"); | |
tclient.print("Content-Length: "); | |
tclient.print(postStr.length()); | |
tclient.print("\n\n"); | |
tclient.print(postStr); | |
delay(1000); | |
}//end if | |
tclient.stop(); | |
}//end send to ts |
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While uploading this file which board should I select Arduino /generic esp8266