HCSR04 ultrasonic sensor example

Requirements

  • Hardware Requirements
    • 1 ESP32 or ESP32S3 flashed with EzloPi firmware
    • 1 HCSR04 ultrasonic sensor
    • 3 Jumper wires
  • Software Requirements
    • EzloPi desktop application
    • Vera mobile application

Circuit connection in ESP32

  1. HCSR04 ultrasonic echo pin
  2. HCSR04 ultrasonic trigger pin

Adding HCSR04 ultrasonic sensor from EzloPi desktop application

  1. Connect the ESP32 to the computer and open the EzloPi desktop application.
  2. Scan, select and open the serial port, connecting to the ESP32.

3. Click on the ‘Add Device’ button as shown below.

4. Select the “other” option from the dropdown menu.

5. Configure the HCSR04 Ultrasonic sensor:

  1. Give it a name. (“HCSR Ultrasonic” as an example)
  2. Select HCSR04 Ultrasonic sensor from the dropdown menu.
  3. Select GPIO pin for trigger
  4. Select GPIO pin for echo
  5. Then click “OK”.

6. Device name, type, subtype and GPIOs are displayed in the screen; click on “set config” to burn the configurations to the ESP devices.
Finally, reset the device by clicking on “Restart”.

HCSR04 ultrasonic sensor in Vera Mobile Application

1. Login to the Vera app using username and password.

2. After login you should be able to see your controller online. The current controller shown has the serial 100004005. Make sure that after flashing the ezlopi firmware to the ESP32 device, you connect to the WiFi clicking Configure WiFi button in the UI.

3. After the device gets online click on to the controller ico as shown as it appears online. It will take some time to reload and add the device configured from the configurator UI.

4. The HCSR04 Ultrasonic sensor connected will be shown in the ‘Devices’ panel.

5. If the sensor finds an obstacle in less than 500 cm distance the icon turns green

6. If no obstacle is detected, the icon turns gray.