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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RTL_433 SDR IoT Sniffer

RTL_433 SDR IoT Sniffer

In this post I’ll be covering how to use SDR on Linux to capture data from wireless sensors using Benjamin Larrson’s RTL_433.  I’ll start by covering the required install steps followed by some rudimentary examples.  First you will need some kind of USB SDR hardware, this example we will be using the NooElec Nano. Here are the steps to install the RTL_433 software.  Open a terminal window and enter in the following commands. sudo apt-get install libtool libusb-1.0.0-dev librtlsdr-dev rtl-sdr…

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