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.

Step 1: Get Your LiV Pi PCB and Connectors

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

Step 2: Solder LiV Pi Board

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

Step 3: Assemble LiV Pi

Assemble LiV Pi following these instructions.

Step 4: Install Software, Configure and Test

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

Step 5: Connect to LiV Pi Using an XMPP/Jabber Client

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

Step 6: Test LiV Pi Intranet Website

Point your browser to LiV Intranet and check current measurements.

Step 7: Connect LiV Pi to Your Preferred IoT Platfrom

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.