eternal-flame-ad/rpi-dht11 — explained in plain English
Analysis updated 2026-07-19 · repo last pushed 2019-02-23
Build a home weather station that displays temperature and humidity from a DHT11 sensor on a Raspberry Pi.
Create a greenhouse monitor that tracks humidity levels and triggers a fan when they get too high.
Log garage temperature readings to a spreadsheet or database for long-term tracking.
Track environmental conditions in any room or space using a Pi and a cheap sensor module.
| eternal-flame-ad/rpi-dht11 | anomalroil/1key | danterolle/loqi | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Language | Go | Go | Go |
| Last pushed | 2019-02-23 | 2019-05-17 | — |
| Maintenance | Dormant | Dormant | — |
| Setup difficulty | moderate | moderate | moderate |
| Complexity | 2/5 | 3/5 | 2/5 |
| Audience | developer | ops devops | developer |
Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.
Requires a Raspberry Pi, a DHT11 sensor wired to a GPIO pin, and basic familiarity with Go modules.
This project is a small piece of software that lets a Raspberry Pi read temperature and humidity data from a DHT11 sensor. The DHT11 is a cheap, widely available sensor module that hobbyists and makers often use in DIY electronics projects. This library, written in the Go programming language, handles the communication between the Pi and the sensor so you can get those readings into your own programs without writing the low-level hardware code yourself. At a high level, the library talks to the sensor through one of the Raspberry Pi's GPIO pins. GPIO pins are the metal connectors on the edge of the Pi board that let it send and receive electrical signals to external devices. Reading from a DHT11 involves carefully timed electrical pulses, which can be tricky to get right. This library manages that timing and signal interpretation for you, turning the raw electrical chatter into usable temperature and humidity numbers. Someone who would use this is typically a hobbyist or a developer building a home weather station, a greenhouse monitor, or any project that needs to track environmental conditions. For example, if you wanted to log the temperature in your garage to a spreadsheet, or trigger a fan when humidity gets too high, this library would be the bridge between the physical sensor and the logic you write on the Pi. The README doesn't go into detail about installation, usage examples, or any specific features beyond the basic purpose described in the repository description. It's a minimal project with a narrow focus: give Go developers a straightforward way to pull data from this specific sensor on this specific piece of hardware.
A Go library that lets a Raspberry Pi read temperature and humidity data from a DHT11 sensor, handling all the tricky timing and signal interpretation so you can use the numbers directly in your own programs.
Mainly Go. The stack also includes Go, Raspberry Pi, DHT11.
Dormant — no commits in 2+ years (last push 2019-02-23).
The README does not mention a license, so the default copyright terms apply and usage rights are unclear.
Setup difficulty is rated moderate, with roughly 30min to a first successful run.
Mainly developer.
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