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ESP8266 Home Automation Projects

You're reading from   ESP8266 Home Automation Projects Leverage the power of this tiny WiFi chip to build exciting smart home projects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787282629
Length 196 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Constantin Tambrea Constantin Tambrea
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If your data is more sensitive and you don't want to share it across the Wi-Fi network or you don't have Wi-Fi connectivity, a solution is to store your data on an SD card.

Let's see how data can be stored on an SD card.

Necessary hardware that will be used:

  • Wemos D1 mini:
  • microSD card shield:
  • microSD card:

Since the microSD card is a shield for the Wemos D1 mini, it is easy to stack them; you just need to solder the pins that are coming into the package:

Let's determine the size of the SD card with the following sketch.

Include the SPI.h and the SD library:

#include <SPI.h> 
#include <SD.h> 

Set up variables using the SD utility library functions:

Sd2Card card; 
SdVolume volume; 
SdFile root; 
const int chipSelect = D8; 

In the setup function, we will determine if the card is inserted or not and the card details will be read over SPI:

void setup() 
{ 
  Serial.begin(115200); 
  Serial.print("\nInitializing SD card..."); 

Use the initialization code from the utility libraries...

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