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Month: March 2018

CO Detector Hack – Part 5

CO Detector Hack – Part 5

In this post I’ll be covering the programing of the ESP8266 with the Arduino IDE The first step is to download and install the Arduino IDE, go to https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software. It is at version 1.8.5 as of this writing. Refer to the online guide for install steps, https://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/HomePage. Once installed, you’ll need to be sure that your have the needed rights to run and upload sketches. On Linux systems, your user account will need to be a member of the dialout…

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CO Detector Hack – Part 4

CO Detector Hack – Part 4

With many devices becoming connect to the internet, I thought it would be worthwhile to interface the CO Detector that I’ve been covering using a wireless ESP8266 board. There are several IoT services that make connecting devices as streamlined as possible. In this post. I’ll be covering IFTTT, a cloud based service that will perform an action based on a condition. The ESP8266 board I’m using has 2 GPIO pins that I would like to use to interface with the…

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CO Detector Hack – Part 3

CO Detector Hack – Part 3

In this post I’ll cover how to interface with the CO Detector I covered in earlier posts. Based on the measurements I did, the CO Detector has 4 outputs and 1 input the we can interface with. Here is a list of these interfaces along with a brief description. SW1 – Test Button VDD1 – Power On ICSPDAT/RS232 – Data LED1-A – Status LED H1-A – Alert Buzzer One thing that I like to do before building a bread board…

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