This sensor can be found inside the Air Wick FreshMatic Odor Detect products, on a module labelled “R002561 ARNIE SENSOR”. I want to reuse it…
Does someone already investigated to use it with the Spark Core and worked on a library for it ?
Alternately, does someone implemented the port of the library for the Air Quality sensor from Groove (SEN01111P). I had a look at the library and I clearly didn’t understand the logic of this sensor.
@Pascal, I ported the SeeedStudio library for the Grove sensor but the issue with using that sensor is that it is powered by 5V and I am not sure what the output voltage range is. The Core analog inputs can’t take more than 3.3v so a resistor divider may be required. Also, the Arduino ADC is 10 bits while the Core’s is 12 bits. This changes the values read and tested in the code. I’ll be looking at the sensor output this weekend and hopefully post a library and instructions also.
@Pascal, ideally the TP-401 sensor is burned-in for 48 hours as indicated in the spec sheet. I have had my new on plugged for about an hour now and noticed the output voltage go from over 4v to around 1v so far. So I will let it burn-in overnight before I work on the code for it.
btw, as it seems that the Grove Air Quality use a different sensor (TP-401) than the AS-MLV, it will then be interesting to compare the results of both (I have both in hands )