Hello. I am working on a big scale project and I have been having a lot of problems integrating few different codes together. I have tested different functions seperately and they all seem to work fine. When I put it all together, there is one massive problem that I get and I cannot seem to fix it.
I am hosting a webserver with an NodeMCU chip to toggle digital pin from the internet on the remote Xbee device. At the same time, I got another remote Xbee device that is sending me remote temperature reading. Once uploaded, the program works perfectly fine, until I open the web browser and input the IP address to connect to the webserver. As soon as the webserver is opened, the Arduino seems to be stuck in a loop waiting for me to press the button to toggle the device ON and OFF. After toggling the device, the loop starts again and program is waiting for me to press the button but is not executing any other functions in the void(loop).
I believe the program lies in this function:
void WEB_DISPLAY(){
WiFiClient client = server.available(); // Listen for incoming clients
if (client) { // If a new client connects,
Serial.println("New Client."); // print a message out in the serial port
String currentLine = ""; // make a String to hold incoming data from the client
while (client.connected()) { // loop while the client's connected
if (client.available()) { // if there's bytes to read from the client,
char c = client.read(); // read a byte, then
Serial.write(c); // print it out the serial monitor
header += c;
if (c == '\n') { // if the byte is a newline character
// if the current line is blank, you got two newline characters in a row.
// that's the end of the client HTTP request, so send a response:
if (currentLine.length() == 0) {
// HTTP headers always start with a response code (e.g. HTTP/1.1 200 OK)
// and a content-type so the client knows what's coming, then a blank line:
client.println("HTTP/1.1 200 OK");
client.println("Content-type:text/html");
client.println("Connection: close");
client.println();
// turns the GPIOs on and off
if (header.indexOf("GET /5/on") >= 0) {
Serial.println("GPIO 5 on");
output5State = "on";
setRemoteState(0x5);
u8g2.clearBuffer();
u8g2.setFont(u8g2_font_t0_11_tf);
u8g2.setCursor(30, 30);
u8g2.print("ON");
} else if (header.indexOf("GET /5/off") >= 0) {
Serial.println("GPIO 5 off");
output5State = "off";
setRemoteState(0x4);
u8g2.clearBuffer(); // clear the internal memory
u8g2.setFont(u8g2_font_t0_11_tf);
u8g2.setCursor(30, 30);
u8g2.print("OFF");
}
u8g2.sendBuffer();
// Display the HTML web page
client.println("<!DOCTYPE html><html>");
client.println("<head><meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width, initial-scale=1\">");
client.println("<link rel=\"icon\" href=\"data:,\">");
// CSS to style the on/off buttons
// Feel free to change the background-color and font-size attributes to fit your preferences
client.println("<style>html { font-family: Helvetica; display: inline-block; margin: 0px auto; text-align: center;}");
client.println(".button { background-color: #195B6A; border: none; color: white; padding: 16px 40px;");
client.println("text-decoration: none; font-size: 30px; margin: 2px; cursor: pointer;}");
client.println(".button2 {background-color: #77878A;}</style></head>");
// Web Page Heading
client.println("<body><h1>ESP8266 Web Server</h1>");
// Display current state, and ON/OFF buttons for GPIO 5
client.println("<p>GPIO 5 - State " + output5State + "</p>");
// If the output5State is off, it displays the ON button
if (output5State=="off") {
client.println("<p><a href=\"/5/on\"><button class=\"button\">ON</button></a></p>");
} else {
client.println("<p><a href=\"/5/off\"><button class=\"button button2\">OFF</button></a></p>");
}
// The HTTP response ends with another blank line
client.println();
// Break out of the while loop
break;
} else { // if you got a newline, then clear currentLine
currentLine = "";
}
} else if (c != '\r') { // if you got anything else but a carriage return character,
currentLine += c; // add it to the end of the currentLine
}
}
}
// Clear the header variable
header = "";
// Close the connection
client.stop();
Serial.println("Client disconnected.");
Serial.println("");
}
}
Serial monitor:
If I close the web browser and restart NodeMCU, system starts working as normal so the problem must be with the function described above:/