LiV Pi - DIY Indoor Air Quality Monitor

LiV Pi is a sensor expansion board that turns your Raspberry Pi into a modern indoor air quality monitoring device.

• Use it in your living room
• Use it to test the air quality in your bedroom
• Use in in your greenhouse to measure CO2 levels: higher levels of CO2 make plants grow bigger and faster
• Use it in your garage: gasoline and diesel engines give off large amounts of CO2
• Use it in the conference room at work

LiV measures CO2, temperature, humidity and air pressure.

LiV is open source. All LiV Pi hardware and software files are here.

Read about LiV Pi here.

LiV Pi features here.

Option 1: You can download the PCB schematics, KiCad PCB files and BOM from LiV GitHub repository. You can etch your PCB or fabricate your board at your favourite PCB fab shop.

Option 2: You can purchase the PCB Kit and the parts on this store: LiV Pi store

Option 1: solder LiV Pi board according to instructions here . Source your sensors, LCD screen and RTC module.

Option 2: buy a fully assembled board and parts on this store: LiV Pi on tindie

Assemble LiV Pi following these instructions.

Download LiV Pi software image from here. Write software image on SD card. Configure device following the instructions below the download link.

Send and receive commands to/from LiV using your Jabber client. LiV XMPP user manual is here.

Point your browser to LiV Intranet and check current measurements.

Write some Python code to connect to your preferred IoT platform. Currently sample code for connecting to: DeviceHive, ThingSpeak, Xively, data.sparkfun.com, Emoncms, analog.io is provided in LiV repository on GitHub.

Build your own enclosure.