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Month: December 2018

Monitoring Wireless Sensors

Monitoring Wireless Sensors

In this post we’ll cover how to monitor inexpensive wireless security sensors. There are two types of wireless sensors that we’ll be working with, door reed switches and passive infra red motion detectors. Each of these sensors transmit a broadcast radio message on the 433Mhz frequency. We’ll be expanding on earlier work with RTL_433. This post will cover how to identify a specific sensor and take appropriate action as needed, all that with a single bash script, let’s begin. The…

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Weather Monitoring with SDR and Cacti

Weather Monitoring with SDR and Cacti

This post will cover how to monitor a Acurite temperature and humidity sensor with RTL_433 and a SDR dongle. Values from the sensor will be collected using a shell script and the results will be graphed in Cacti. Let’s begin. The Acurite sensor used is model number 06002M and it is the indoor outdoor sensor. It can be found on Amazon and currently lists for $13 each, http://a.co/d/fPybnET. It is powered by 2 AA batteries. The manufacturer suggests using Lithium…

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