Hi guys, this article is to read the DHT sensor values temperature and humidity, these values are displayed on the PyQt5 GUI application. This GUI is designed in Qt designer (see below image) and converted to the .py file.
DHT11 is a temperature and humidity sensor. This sensor has 3 pins (VCC, OUT, and GND). For VCC we have to give 5V, OUT is connected to GPIO 23 pin of raspberry pi and GND is connected to ground pin of the raspberry pi.
Components Required:
- Raspberry Pi
- SD Card (Raspbian Installed)
- DHT11
- Touch LCD Screen
How to connect the DHT11 sensor to raspberry pi:
Schematic:
Let’s get started with the coding, I am using python language to read the sensor value. For reading the DHT sensor we are using the Adafruit library, which we can directly download and import for this tutorial. We can download the library in raspberry pi by using the below commands.
git clone https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Python_DHT.git
cd Adafruit_Python_DHT
sudo python3 setup.py install
We need to import some required methods for GUI from PyQt5 and Adafruit_DHT library. On this application, sensor values are updated periodically for every 2 seconds. The final code can be downloaded from the GitHub link below.
https://github.com/Vinod-Embedded/DHT11-PyQt5
from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets
from PyQt5.QtCore import *
import sys
import Adafruit_DHT as dht
class Ui_Dialog(object):
def setupUi(self, Dialog):
Dialog.setObjectName("Dialog")
Dialog.resize(800, 480)
Dialog.setStyleSheet("background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);")
Dialog.showFullScreen()
flags = QtCore.Qt.WindowFlags(QtCore.Qt.FramelessWindowHint)
Dialog.setWindowFlags(flags)
self.label = QtWidgets.QLabel(Dialog)
self.label.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(260, 0, 301, 61))
self.label.setStyleSheet("font: 18pt \"Palatino Linotype\";\n"
"color: rgb(55, 88, 6);")
self.label.setAlignment(QtCore.Qt.AlignCenter)
self.label.setObjectName("label")
self.label_2 = QtWidgets.QLabel(Dialog)
self.label_2.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(0, 80, 321, 121))
self.label_2.setStyleSheet("font: 22pt \"Perpetua\";\n"
"background-color: rgb(255, 85, 0);\n"
"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);")
self.label_2.setAlignment(QtCore.Qt.AlignCenter)
self.label_2.setObjectName("label_2")
self.label_3 = QtWidgets.QLabel(Dialog)
self.label_3.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(0, 220, 321, 121))
self.label_3.setStyleSheet("font: 22pt \"Perpetua\";\n"
"background-color: rgb(255, 85, 0);\n"
"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);")
self.label_3.setAlignment(QtCore.Qt.AlignCenter)
self.label_3.setObjectName("label_3")
self.lcdNumber = QtWidgets.QLCDNumber(Dialog)
self.lcdNumber.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(330, 80, 291, 121))
self.lcdNumber.setStyleSheet("background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);")
self.lcdNumber.setObjectName("lcdNumber")
self.lcdNumber_2 = QtWidgets.QLCDNumber(Dialog)
self.lcdNumber_2.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(330, 220, 291, 121))
self.lcdNumber_2.setStyleSheet("background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);")
self.lcdNumber_2.setObjectName("lcdNumber_2")
self.label_4 = QtWidgets.QLabel(Dialog)
self.label_4.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(630, 80, 151, 121))
self.label_4.setStyleSheet("font: 22pt \"Perpetua\";\n"
"background-color: rgb(255, 85, 0);\n"
"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);")
self.label_4.setAlignment(QtCore.Qt.AlignCenter)
self.label_4.setObjectName("label_4")
self.label_5 = QtWidgets.QLabel(Dialog)
self.label_5.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(630, 220, 151, 121))
self.label_5.setStyleSheet("font: 22pt \"Perpetua\";\n"
"background-color: rgb(255, 85, 0);\n"
"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);")
self.label_5.setAlignment(QtCore.Qt.AlignCenter)
self.label_5.setObjectName("label_5")
self.pushButton = QtWidgets.QPushButton(Dialog)
self.pushButton.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(630, 360, 151, 91))
self.pushButton.setStyleSheet("background-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\n"
"font: 14pt \"Sitka Small\";\n"
"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);")
self.pushButton.setObjectName("pushButton")
self.pushButton.clicked.connect(self.close)
self.timer = QTimer()
self.timer.setInterval(2000)
self.timer.timeout.connect(self.DHTread)
self.timer.start()
self.retranslateUi(Dialog)
QtCore.QMetaObject.connectSlotsByName(Dialog)
def retranslateUi(self, Dialog):
_translate = QtCore.QCoreApplication.translate
Dialog.setWindowTitle(_translate("Dialog", "Dialog"))
self.label.setText(_translate("Dialog", "DHT11 Values in PyQt5"))
self.label_2.setText(_translate("Dialog", "Temperature"))
self.label_3.setText(_translate("Dialog", "Humidity"))
self.label_4.setText(_translate("Dialog", "°C"))
self.label_5.setText(_translate("Dialog", "%"))
self.pushButton.setText(_translate("Dialog", "Close"))
def DHTread(self):
humidity,temperature = dht.read_retry(dht.DHT11, 23)
self.lcdNumber.display(temperature)
self.lcdNumber_2.display(humidity)
def close(self):
sys.exit()
if __name__ == "__main__":
app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv)
Dialog = QtWidgets.QDialog()
ui = Ui_Dialog()
ui.setupUi(Dialog)
Dialog.show()
app.exec_()
Output Screenshot:
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