Something I’ve been playing with lately is software defined radio with GNURadio. I’m not good at it yet, but I’ve managed to decode the signals from a couple of things.
This is my step-by-step for how I decoded data from a boiler thermostat. I’m not saying it’s the best way, or even a good way. But it’s what got me there.
Often this is written on the device itself. Other times it’s in the manual. If not, then more research is needed, such as by trying to find the manufacturer on fcc.gov or similar.
In this case it was easy. The manual said “868 MHz”, which is in the SRD860 band.
When I poked at the controls of the thermostat, saying “please make the room 25 degrees”, the thermostat must send this data to the boiler. I could hear the boiler start up and shut down, so there must be something sent between me pressing the buttons and I heard the results.
I started by centering around 868.5 Mhz with 1Msps. The minimum for the RTL-SDR is 900ksps, so even if you wanted to see less than 1MHz you need Continue reading
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