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dasimpsonsrule

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#303549 17-Feb-2023 21:31
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I have been playing with reverse engineering my cavius wireless smoke detectors for the past couple of months, and I figured some here might find it useful.

 

I used an ESP32 running Arduino code to interface to MQTT over WiFi and an RFM69 module to receive and send signals to the cavius detectors.

 

Here is a link to the code and wiring. Here is a link to some good documentation on the protocol, running at a different frequency for Europe, our ones run at 926.365MHz 

 

Alternatively if you have an RTL-SDR device (cheap USB TV tuner that can be used as a radio receiver) you can use RTL_433. Here is the command I was using to receive the information using RTL_433:

 

rtl_433_64bit_static.exe -f 926365000 -s 250000 -p -1 -R 179

 

 


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  #3038359 17-Feb-2023 21:36
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That's awesome - well done!!

 

Have you got any screenshots or examples of how you are integrating this into your home automation system?




dasimpsonsrule

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  #3038368 17-Feb-2023 22:24
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SumnerBoy:

 

That's awesome - well done!!

 

Have you got any screenshots or examples of how you are integrating this into your home automation system?

 

 

I haven't done it yet, but my plan is to send a message to a discord channel when the MQTT message is received. My code publishes a JSON message to the MQTT topic sensors/cavius/{network id} with the received message and the sending device id


jonathanreid
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  #3064618 17-Apr-2023 20:58
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This is excellent, I have recently setup home assistant for our greenhouse monitoring and have been thinking it would be great to be able to pickup the signals from our Cavius detectors.

 

I have seen that this library GitHub - NorthernMan54/rtl_433_ESP: Trial port of the rtl_433 Library for use with OpenMQTTGateway on a ESP32 and a CC1101 Transceiver has recently added FSK support, which then means that it might be possible to pickup Cavius with OpenMQTTGateway on a Lilygo device

 

But it all looks a little new/untested, so I think I might just get a ESP board and RFM69 and start with your code


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