Hi guys, in this post we will discuss how to establish Serial Communication between NodeMCU and ArduinoEsp8266 -12E is explained.Embedded Systems should be connected with each other to transfer data between them. Because all operations can’t be performed on a single system. For example, Arduino has 6 analog pins but NodeMCU has only one analog pin.
So two are more microcontrollers or microprocessors can be combined to form a required embedded system. The connection can be established through any of the following protocols. SPI. I2C. UARTSerial Communication:Serial communication is a communication process wherein data transfer occurs by transmitting data one bit at a time in sequential order over a computer bus or a communication channel. It is the most widely used approach to transfer information between data processing equipment and peripherals.
Binary One represents a logic HIGH or 5 Volts, and zero represents a logic LOW or 0 Volts, used for communicating between the Arduino board and a computer or other devices. All Arduino boards have at least one serial port which is also known as a UART or USART. It communicates on digital pins 0 (RX) and 1 (TX) as well as with the computer via USB.
Serial communication on pins TX/RX uses TTL logic levels (5V or 3.3V depending on the board).To establish serial communication between two devices, the devices should be connected as shown below. Because the data sent from the device 1 should be received in the device 2 and vice versa. Sending single data between Arduino and NodeMcu:In this tutorial, the data is sent from Arduino to NodeMCU. NodeMCU requests the data from the Arduino by sending a character. Once the Arduino detects that there is an incoming data it sends the data in serial as the response.
This Arduino and the NodeMCU code for the above-explained procedure is given belowARDUINO PART:In Arduino, we shall consider pin 5 as Rx and pin 6 as Tx. To use the GPIO pins for serial communication SoftwareSerial library can be used. Here we have created a serial port named s with pin 5 as RX and pin 6 as TX. 0float h = dht. ReadHumidity ( ); // Read temperature as Celsius (the default) float t = dht.
ReadTemperature ( ); // Read temperature as Fahrenheit (isFahrenheit = true) float f = dht. ReadTemperature ( true ); // Compute heat index in Fahrenheit (the default) float hif = dht. ComputeHeatIndex (f, h ); // Compute heat index in Celsius (isFahreheit = false) float hic = dht. ComputeHeatIndex (t, h, false );float h = dht.readHumidity;// Read temperature as Celsius (the default)float t = dht.readTemperature;// Read temperature as Fahrenheit (isFahrenheit = true)float f = dht.readTemperature(true);// Compute heat index in Fahrenheit (the default)float hif = dht.computeHeatIndex(f, h);// Compute heat index in Celsius (isFahreheit = false)float hic = dht.computeHeatIndex(t, h, false);The values are stored as key values pairs to the JsonObject root. The value of the gas sensor connected to the analog pin is also read and stored. Then the data is printed into the serial port.
Arduino: 1.8.2 (Windows 10), Board: “NodeMCU 1.0 (ESP-12E Module), 80 MHz, Flash, Disabled, 4M (no SPIFFS), v2 Lower Memory, Disabled, None, Only Sketch, 115200″WARNING: Category ” in library ArduinoJson is not valid. Hi sai nikhilesh,Thanks for asking. Follow the steps given below.1) To run 2 sketches. Connect the Arduino Uno to the software. Select Arduino Uno from the boards. Select the port which the Arduino is connected. Upload the code into Arduino.
Connect the NodeMCU to the laptop. Select NodeMcu from the boards. Select the port to which it is connected and upload the code. Open the Serial Monitor to see the data incoming2) To send data to thingspeak refer. To send data to ubidots cloud refer.