It’s over a year since I started this in late 2019. A work in progress, experimenting with the ESP8266 D1 Mini-pro and the ESP-01S running Tasmota.
Connecting to a Orange-Pi attached to the back of a 22″ LCD screen and running InfluxDB and Grafana. This setup has been collecting data from a ESP-01S in the greenhouse and a D1 mini-pro in the computer cabinet.
The ESP-01S failed a few weeks back (late March 2021). Not surprising as it was a temporary install hanging from the roof, powered by a 10W solar panel and 3-cell 18650 battery. It lost the DHT11 sensor configuration and the sensor itself was providing bad data. A tidy up and new sensor and it’s working but possibly not as reliably as it was. Time to update it to the D1-mini-pro board.
With a couple of applications in mind I designed a carrier board for the D1-mini-pro to make it easier to use and operate from 12V. If the D1-mini module is soldered directly rather than on header connectors the whole thing slides into a 32mm conduit for mounting outdoors and harsh environments. A few more details Here.