[solved]ESPimatic DHT11 Device - howto?

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Hi all,

I hope someone can help me.
I just installed Pimatic on my Raspberry and ESPimatic to my NodeMCU. I configured a relais and the DHT11 sensor. Switching the relais on and off works like charm. I used the example device configuration which is shown in the examples of the espimatic wiki:
{
“id”: “relais1”,
“name”: “Relais1”,
“class”: “ShellSwitch”,
“onCommand”: “curl --silent --data ‘action=relay1&value=on’ http://esp-ip/api”,
“offCommand”: “curl --silent --data ‘action=relay1&value=off’ http://esp-ip/api”,
“getStateCommand”: “curl --silent --data ‘action=relay1&value=status’ http://esp-ip/api”,
“interval”: 60000
},

My problem is that I don’t know how to configure the DHT11 sensor in the config.json file.
Which device class I have to configure and how?
Thanks for your help.

g0rnix

you don’t have to configure a dht11 device in the config.json, you need a variable and a variables device.

check this here to learn how to set it up (has been for v0.8) now you can use the device
editor to create the variables device on the fly
https://forum.pimatic.org/topic/1728/espimatic-is-running-but-plugin-not-going-to-install/5

what is missing in the above description - go in the esp settings to the pimatic options and enter your credentials and ip.
http://www.youscreen.de/rdwidiygm87.jpg

remark - don’t forget to create the variables for dhthum and dhttemp in the variables menu in pimatic itself! you need the “container” for your data that are pushed over from espimatic.
those variables will be displayed in the gui with the variables device then.

if still having trouble come back here again

@leader21 Thanx a lot. I think this was my problem. I defined the variables in espimatic but I forget to add them in pimatic as variable and don’t know that I have to define a variablesdevice. I’ll try this later.

you’re welcome!
i will set this as solved