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I'm new in the Arduino world and today i was trying to make a simple program to show the temparature an humidity with this sensor. I made a circuit following one tutorial and nothing happend, the result was Temperature: 0 Humidity: 0. My question is, what is wrong? Probably the sensor is broken or the code is wrong. I also need to say that i use a 5K1 resistor in exchange of the 4.7K resistor and accidentally I connected the sensor without the resistance for a few seconds.

This is the code:

#include <DHT.h>
#include <DHT_U.h>

int SENSOR = 2;
int TEMPERATURE;
int HUMIDITY;

DHT dht(SENSOR, DHT11);

void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
dht.begin();
}

void loop() {
TEMPERATURE = dht.readTemperature();
HUMIDITY = dht.readHumidity();
Serial.print("Temperature: ");
Serial.print(TEMPERATURE);
Serial.print(" Humidity: ");
Serial.println(HUMIDITY);
delay(1000);
}

This is the circuit scheme:

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This is a photo of the circuit and the sensor (probably damaged):

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Thanks for your time and sorry for my bad english.

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  • Caution! Always inspect components before hooking up! I got a DHT11 sensor in a Kuman kit. I hooked it up per standard and ran the sketch. Getting 0s reported back I grabbed the sensor to check it was in the board properly and it was burning hot. On closer inspection the were marked ground-data-VCC. Sensor is pooched.
    – Jeff Richardson
    Jan 12, 2019 at 19:03

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Reset to default
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Finally I was able to solve the problem by not using the resistor and connecting it directly, I also had a problem with the sensor pins since some were badly connected, but it was also solved. Now both sensors are working well including the melted one. Thanks!.enter image description here

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