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Finding the rogue frequency

A project log for re-purposing acurite temperature sensors

Two people have reverse engineered most of the protocol. These things are cheap, and do something I wanted to build. Time to finish the job.

jorj-bauerJorj Bauer 03/08/2015 at 18:090 Comments

Digging out the RTL SDR (and waiting for Ubuntu to install in a VM because I've temporarily broken my gnuradio install under MacOS again), it's as I suspected: the new "broken" temperature sensor is broadcasting off-frequency. The three dots under the center line in this waterfall display are the three sensors that behave themselves, broadcasting at 433.92 MHz. The one off to the right at about 434.4MHz is the rogue.

Given that 434.4 is still in the ISM unlicensed band, I'm planning on keeping the sensor and working around the problem in software.

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