DHT22 need pull down/up ESP8266

Question

I have the strange pb. My esp8266 was working fine with my DHT22 and then failed every time. I loaded an example sketch in a other ESP8266 and I have the same pb.... until I shut down -> up the DHT22 when the ESP8266 is working. To check more, I added this at the setup before dht.begin() :

 digitalWrite(0, LOW); // turn the LED on (HIGH is the voltage level)
 delay(1000); // wait for a second
 digitalWrite(0, HIGH);

And it works. But I don't know why I need to do this "pull up". PS : I already tried with or without the 10K resistor, same pb. PS2 : I already tried with 3.3v or 5V for DHT22. Same pb.

Any idea ?

• Juraj: how is the DHT22 wired and what esp8266 module you use?
• Cocorico: I use a nodeMCU (Bangood, Geekcreit). The DHT22 is wired like this : learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-io-basics-temperature-and-humidity/…
• Juraj: to which pin of NodeMcu is the DHT data pin 2 connected? to D2 (io 0)?
• Cocorico: I connected it to pin D4. But the pb is I can see the data AFTER the pullUp trick. So why ?
• Jot: Cocorico, when you use @Jot in your answer, I will get notified. There are also timing issues with the esp8266 and the dht11 / dht22 sensors, and library incompatibilities. That was already a problem, but since this year many have issues. So please use a i2c humidity and temperature sensor.

Answer 1

I answer my own question in case someone has the same issue. The ADAFRUIT_DHT lib DOESN'T WORK WITH ESP8266. It keep saying Failed to read from DHT sensor! until you unplug/plug the VCC on the DHT.

But the DHTesp (link) works very well at first try !

Thx @Juraj and @Jot for their support.