Adventures on Weather Station Kit — part 2

Indraja Nutalapati
2 min readSep 11, 2020

Hello fellow investigators,

Recap — Sensors were not detected as I didnot solder the arduino header pins.

In this blog, I would like to share my experiences on the experiment after soldering. I received my soldering kit today and am curious to see how my experiment would go after the soldering. This time, all the sensors were getting detected(some display on the OLED finally) but the problem is with my Wifi. As stated in the previous blog that WiFi.status( ) is returning 6 which means disconnected. I could see this on the OLED always(image titled Wifi Error). Something is working but not actually what I want.

Searched internet about all the return values of WiFi.status( ). I found something interesting and related to my issue on this link(https://w4krl.com/di-mini-esp8266-wi-fi-status-codes/) . If the SSID is for a 5GHZ — band access point, then it returns NO SSID AVAILABLE. I was actually connected to a 5GHZ access point. Later, I switched my connection to a 2.5GHZ access point and yes finally I could see the result.

I have attached images of the fieldchart observations from ThingSpeak (image titled Temperature and Humidity on Thing Speak and Light and Atmosphere on Thing Speak).

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