I am making a project for school where I have to send data from a sensor to a webpage. After doing some research I decided to use a Real-Time Firebase database. Security is not really important and I want to focus on other aspects of the project, so this seemed like an easy and quick option. I am using a d1 mini (esp8266) and a DHT11 humidity and temp sensor. For libraries I am using DHT, FirebaseArduino and ESP8266WiFi. The code is:
#include <ESP8266WiFi.h> // esp8266 library
#include <FirebaseArduino.h> // firebase library
#include <DHT.h> // dht11 temperature and humidity sensor library
#define FIREBASE_HOST "xx" // the project name address from firebase id
#define FIREBASE_AUTH "xx" // the secret key generated from firebase
#define WIFI_SSID "xx" // input your home or public wifi name
#define WIFI_PASSWORD "xx" //password of wifi ssid
#define DHTPIN D5 // what digital pin we're connected to
#define DHTTYPE DHT11 // select dht type as DHT 11 or DHT22
DHT dht(DHTPIN, DHTTYPE);
void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
delay(1000);
WiFi.begin(WIFI_SSID, WIFI_PASSWORD); //try to connect with wifi
Serial.print("Connecting to ");
Serial.print(WIFI_SSID);
while (WiFi.status() != WL_CONNECTED) {
Serial.print(".");
delay(500);
}
Serial.println();
Serial.print("Connected to ");
Serial.println(WIFI_SSID);
Serial.print("IP Address is : ");
Serial.println(WiFi.localIP()); //print local IP address
Firebase.begin(FIREBASE_HOST, FIREBASE_AUTH); // connect to firebase
dht.begin(); //Start reading dht sensor
}
void loop() {
float h = dht.readHumidity(); // Reading temperature or humidity takes about 250 milliseconds!
float t = dht.readTemperature(); // Read temperature as Celsius (the default)
if (isnan(h) || isnan(t)) { // Check if any reads failed and exit early (to try again).
Serial.println(F("Failed to read from DHT sensor!"));
return;
}
Serial.print("Humidity: "); Serial.print(h);
String fireHumid = String(h) + String("%"); //convert integer humidity to string humidity
Serial.print("% Temperature: "); Serial.print(t); Serial.println("°C ");
String fireTemp = String(t) + String("°C"); //convert integer temperature to string temperature
delay(4000);
Firebase.pushString("Humidity/", fireHumid); //setup path and send readings
Firebase.pushString("Temperature/", fireTemp); //setup path and send readings
}
replaced some 'sensitive' information with "xx". When running this code, it connects to my wifi connection and shows data from the DHT11 in the serial monitor. However NOTHING changes in Firebase. After enabling the feature to display extensive feedback/errors in the serial monitor, I noticed it's displaying this:
[HTTP-Client][begin] host: https://testtesttest-bd679.firebaseio.com/ port: 443 url: /Temperature/.json?auth=xxxx httpsFingerprint: 03 D6 42 23 03 D1 0C 06 73 F7 E2 BD 29 47 13 C3 22 71 37 1B
[HTTP-Client][sendRequest] type: 'POST' redirCount: 0
[HTTP-Client] failed connect to https://xxx-xxx.firebaseio.com/:443
[HTTP-Client][returnError] error(-1): connection refused
[HTTP-Client][returnError] error(-4): not connected
[HTTP-Client][end] tcp is closed
Humidity: 43.00% Temperature: 22.50°C
I have tried the following things:
- Using a different version of the FirebaseArduino library (5.13.x (still using this one))
- Manually updating the fingerprint of the FirebaseArduino library (see current fingerprint in 2nd code section above)
- Using different versions of the Arduino IDE, using 1.8.12 now
And some other minor changes like creating a new Firebase Database or using something different from pushString to add data to the database.
None of this helped and I am running out of time for my project, hope someone here knows what's wrong and can help me out! :)
