Creating a spectrum analyzer using multipe ESP32 modules.

musicmania
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Creating a spectrum analyzer using multipe ESP32 modules.

Postby musicmania » Sun Sep 15, 2024 2:43 pm

Hi,

I would like to build a spectrum analyzer that monitors all the 80 ISM bands with a high update rate.
Can I use one ESP32-MINI to monitor one band? So that I can build this analyzer using 80 modules?

To be able to a ESP32-MINI to monitor one band I would need to be able to set the receiver to the frequency of one of the bands and then periodically read the received power level.

So is this possible? Does a ESP32 report the received power level? And how fast does it update this value?

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Re: Creating a spectrum analyzer using multipe ESP32 modules.

Postby MicroController » Mon Sep 16, 2024 10:10 am

I don't know what ISM bands you mean, but the ESPs' RF subsystem is made for WiFi/Bluetooth and most likely cannot be used to receive/detect arbitrary RF signals, and definitely not outside the 2.4GHz (/5GHz) WiFi/Bluetooth band.
Even if the RF hardware could in theory detect arbitrary signals, the closed-source Espressif software ("driver") needed to control the RF hardware cannot.

musicmania
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Re: Creating a spectrum analyzer using multipe ESP32 modules.

Postby musicmania » Mon Sep 16, 2024 10:49 am

With the ISM band I ment the 2.4Ghz - 2.4835GHz range which BlueTooth uses. I tought that this was the ISM band. But now I understand that the ISM band is much more then that. The 80 bands of BlueTooth are good for me.

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