Help with my DHT22 sensor and using GET request

Question

For some reason using my DHT22 sensor I keep getting "NaN". I have tried using older versions of the DHT22 sensor library as suggested by a few of my searches, but it still doesn't fix the issue.

Also I can't get it to work with the GET request portion. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

#include <Adafruit_Sensor.h>
#include <DHT.h>
#include <ESP8266WiFi.h>
#include <Phant.h>
#include <ESP.h>
#define DHTPIN 2
#define DHTTYPE DHT22
DHT dht(DHTPIN, DHTTYPE);
const char* ssid = "Myyyyyyh";
const char* password = "Ixxxxx1";
const char* host = "script.google.com";
//*****example address
//https://script.google.com/macros/s/AKfycbyNsFc87GQmRP3GnWoTzK6/exec?tag=test&value=8
const String gardenchart = "/macros/s/AKfycbyNnWoTzK6/exec?";
const byte sleeptime = 1;
const byte NUM_FIELDS = 5;
const String fieldNames[NUM_FIELDS] = {"ghumidity", "gtemp", "light", "otemp", "wtemp"};
String fieldData[NUM_FIELDS];
void setup() {
 Serial.begin(115200);
 delay(10);
 WiFi.begin(ssid, password);
 while (WiFi.status() != WL_CONNECTED) {
 delay(500);
 }
 fieldData[0] = 1;
 postdata();
 ESP.deepSleep(sleeptime * 60 * 1000000, WAKE_RF_DEFAULT);
}
void loop() {
 delay(50);
}
void postdata() {
 fieldData[0] = dht.readHumidity();
 fieldData[1] = dht.readTemperature(true);
 WiFiClient client;
 const int httpPort = 80;
 if (!client.connect (host, httpPort)) {
 return;
 }
 for (int i=0; i<NUM_FIELDS; i++) {
 client.print("GET ");
 client.print(fieldNames[i]); client.print("&value=");
 client.print(fieldData[i]); client.print(" HTTP/1.1");
 client.println("Host:"); client.print(host);
 Serial.print(fieldNames[i] + fieldData[i]); delay(500);
 }
 client.println("Connection: close");
}

Answer 1

The Adafruit DHT library causes a shortcut on the signal line. That can be a problem for Arduino boards, but it is a big problem for the ESP8266.
Issue: DHT init sequence wrong #48
I don't know what is a bigger problem, the shortcut in the code or Adafruit not fixing it.

Why do you mention the Arduino Uno with a label ?
For the "GET" you should find a good working example.

The DHT22 is not very good. There are better sensors with a normal I2C interface, for example the HTU21D-F or the BME-280. This is about a great test: Hackaday: Humidity Sensor Shootout. The BME-280 is the undisputed winner.

• willocks1718: I'll look for a BMW, for the GET request it was working when I was using sparkfun's data hosting. I am switching to posting to my Google sheet and that's when something isn't working quite right.