This project is so handy in some case where while driving we need to know the distance of the obstacle behind the car so that we can park easily without any damages to the car and read that value in an Android app without any difficulty turning back and constantly monitoring.

Hello!!, I'm Sridhar Janardhan, Today I am going to show you how to create a distance measuring and monitor that in an Android app.

Let's get started.

Step 1: Components Reuired:

The components required for this project are:

NodeMCU
Breadboard
Ultrasonic sensor
Blynk app
Jumper wires

Let's now power up the breadboard using NodeMCU

Step 2: Powering Breadboard Using Breadboard

To power up the breadboard:

Connect the 3.3-volt pin of the NodeMCU to the positive railing of the breadboard
Connect the GND pin to the negative railing of the breadboard.

Usually, we can connect Ultrasonicsensor pin directly to NodeMCU but if you connect like the above, It will be easy to connect multiple sensor and output device.

Step 3: Connect the HC-05 Ultrasonic Sensor

The ultrasonic sensor is a distance measuring device that measures the distances of the obstacle by calculating the time between emission and reflecting of the wave.This is done by the TRIG and ECHO pin.Where the ECHO pin emits the wave and TRIG pin get's triggered on reflecting wave hitting back.

The connection of the sensor is as follows:

VCC pin: Connect to the positive railing of the breadboard.
GND pin: Connect to the negative railing of the breadboard.
TRIG pin: Connect to the Digital pin D1.
ECHO pin: Connect to the Digital pin D2.

Step 4: Blynk App

Download Blynk app from play store here:
Create a User account in the app.
Then press New project in the given List
Choose NodeMCU in choose device list
Connection type as WiFi
Theme left to your convenience that has no effect on the tutorials
drag towards the left side of the screen you can list of widgets.Select LCD in the widget.
Before you run the play button give the following details in the code

1) Wifi SSID

2)WiFi Password

3)Auth token, Given by the Blynk team in your email.

Step 5: Coding

#define BLYNK_PRINT Serial

#include

#define TRIGGERPIN D1

#define ECHOPIN D2

// You should get Auth Token in the Blynk App. // Go to the Project Settings (nut icon). char auth[] = "Your auth token";

// Your WiFi credentials. // Set password to "" for open networks.

char ssid[] = "your wifi SSID";

char pass[] = "your password";

WidgetLCD lcd(V1);

void setup() {

// Debug console

Serial.begin(9600);

pinMode(TRIGGERPIN, OUTPUT);

pinMode(ECHOPIN, INPUT);

Blynk.begin(auth, ssid, pass);

// You can also specify server: //Blynk.begin(auth, ssid, pass, "blynk-cloud.com", 8442); //Blynk.begin(auth, ssid, pass, IPAddress(192,168,1,100), 8442);

lcd.clear(); //Use it to clear the LCD Widget

lcd.print(0, 0, "Distance in cm"); // use: (position X: 0-15, position Y: 0-1, "Message you want to print") // Please use timed events when LCD printintg in void loop to avoid sending too many commands // It will cause a FLOOD Error, and connection will be dropped }

void loop() {

lcd.clear();

lcd.print(0, 0, "Distance in cm"); // use: (position X: 0-15, position Y: 0-1, "Message you want to print") long duration, distance;

digitalWrite(TRIGGERPIN, LOW);

delayMicroseconds(3);

digitalWrite(TRIGGERPIN, HIGH);

delayMicroseconds(12);

digitalWrite(TRIGGERPIN, LOW);

duration = pulseIn(ECHOPIN, HIGH);

distance = (duration/2) / 29.1;

Serial.print(distance);

Serial.println("Cm");

lcd.print(7, 1, distance);

Blynk.run();

delay(3500);

}

Step 6: Output

The above pics are the screenshot taken in Blynk.If you are not getting any output make sure you did the following:

Set the LCD to advance version
Then set virtual pin to V1

Thank you.