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Control Your Home with Raspberry Pi

RPi snoops on 433.92 MHz

Control Your Home with Raspberry Pi

This installment of Elektor Books presents a chapter excerpted from Koen Vervloesem's book 'Control Your Home with Raspberry Pi' recently published by Elektor. Koen explains how to turn your RPi into a powerful receiver and decoder for most, if not all, remote control and sensor signals you can pick up at 433.92 MHz, one of the best known and widest used ISM frequencies.

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Elektor RTL-SDR kit with antennas, mounts and extension cable

Using a dipole antenna kit on the RTL-SDR

Right before this book was finished, the developer announced that he wouldn’t actively develop this Docker image (which has more than 100,000 pulls) anymore, so there will be no new features. It remains to be seen if another image becomes popular. cont’d

But even if you need to find another one, you should only need some minor changes to use it: the main configuration file of rtl_433 stays the same.

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