In this example we connect a GY-21P sensor to an ESP32 and then we will display the readings on a webpage
Lets recap the GY-21P module which spoke about in a previous article
The GY-21P is an interesting module in that it combines a BMP280 sensor and an SI7021 sensor. The on-board BMP280+SI7021 sensor measures atmospheric pressure from 30kPa to 110kPa as well as relative humidity and temperature.
BMP280
Pressure range: 300-1100 hPa (9000 meters above sea level at -500m)
Relative accuracy (at 950 – 1050 hPa at 25 ° C): ± 0.12 hPa, equiv. to ± 1 m
Absolute accuracy (at (950 – 1050 hPa, 0 – +40 ° C): ± 0.12 hPa, equiv. To ± 1 m
Mains voltage: 1.8V – 3.6V
Power consumption: 2.7µA at 1Hz readout rate
Temperature range: -40 to + 85 ° C
SI7021
HVAC/R
Thermostats/humidistats
Respiratory therapy
White goods
Indoor weather stations
Micro-environments/data centers
Automotive climate control and defogging
Asset and goods tracking
Mobile phones and tablets
Size: 1.3*1cm/0.51*0.39″
Features:
Operation Voltage: 3.3V
I2C & SPI Communications Interface
Temp Range: -40C to 85C
Humidity Range: 0 – 100% RH, =-3% from 20-80%
Pressure Range: 30,000Pa to 110,000Pa, relative accuracy of 12Pa, absolute accuracy of 100Pa
Altitude Range: 0 to 30,000 ft (9.2 km), relative accuracy of 3.3 ft (1 m) at sea level, 6.6 (2 m) at 30,000 ft.
Parts List
| Name | Link | |
| ESP32 | ![](http://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/Sbf885b40323a45178795fde862d61c3cT.jpg_140x140.jpg") |
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| GY-21P | ||
| Connecting cables |  |
Schematics/Layout
Connect the sensor to the ESP32
esp32 and GY21P
Code
I use a variety of Adafruit libraries, took the default examples and made the following out of them
https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Sensor
https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_BMP280_Library
https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Si7021
I got the sea level pressure value from this link
#include <WiFi.h>
#include <Wire.h>
#include <Adafruit_Sensor.h>
#include <Adafruit_BMP280.h>
#include "Adafruit_Si7021.h"
const char* ssid = "yourname";
const char* password = "yourpasssword";
Adafruit_BMP280 bmp; // I2C
Adafruit_Si7021 sensor = Adafruit_Si7021();
WiFiServer server(80);
void setup()
{
Serial.begin(115200);
pinMode(5, OUTPUT); // set the LED pin mode
if (!bmp.begin())
{
Serial.println("Could not find a valid BMP280 sensor, check wiring!");
while (1);
}
if (!sensor.begin())
{
Serial.println("Did not find Si7021 sensor!");
while (true);
}
delay(10);
// We start by connecting to a WiFi network
Serial.println();
Serial.println();
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 connected.");
Serial.println("IP address: ");
Serial.println(WiFi.localIP());
server.begin();
}
int value = 0;
void loop(){
WiFiClient client = server.available(); // listen for incoming clients
if (client)
{ // if you get a client,
Serial.println("New Client."); // print a message out the serial port
String currentLine = ""; // make a String to hold incoming data from the client
while (client.connected())
{ // loop while the client's connected
if (client.available())
{ // if there's bytes to read from the client,
char c = client.read(); // read a byte, then
Serial.write(c); // print it out the serial monitor
if (c == '\n')
{ // if the byte is a newline character
// if the current line is blank, you got two newline characters in a row.
// that's the end of the client HTTP request, so send a response:
if (currentLine.length() == 0)
{
client.println("HTTP/1.1 200 OK");
client.println("Content-Type: text/html");
client.println("Connnection: close");
client.println();
client.println("<!DOCTYPE HTML>");
client.println("<html>");
client.println("<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"5\">");
client.println("<br />");
//bmp280 part
client.println("<h3>BMP280 readings</h3>");
client.print("Pressure (Pa): ");
client.println((float)bmp.readPressure(), 1);
client.println("<br />");
client.print("Temperature (C): ");
client.println((float)bmp.readTemperature(), 1);
client.println("<br />");
client.print("Altitude (m): ");
client.println((float)bmp.readAltitude(1024), 1); // this should be adjusted to your local forcase
client.println("<br />");
//SI7021 part
client.println("<h3>SI7021 readings</h3>");
client.print("Humidity (%): ");
client.println((float)sensor.readHumidity(), 1);
client.println("<br />");
client.print("Temperature (C): ");
client.println((float)sensor.readTemperature(), 1);
client.println("<br />");
client.println("</html>");
break;
// break out of the while loop:
break;
}
else
{ // if you got a newline, then clear currentLine:
currentLine = "";
}
}
else if (c != '\r')
{ // if you got anything else but a carriage return character,
currentLine += c; // add it to the end of the currentLine
}
}
}
// close the connection:
client.stop();
Serial.println("Client Disconnected.");
}
}
Output
OPen the serial monitor and take a note of the IP address
Open your favourite web browser and type in the IP address from above, you should see something like this
gy-21p output
Links
