# Complete noise kits available?
**URL:** https://forum.sensor.community/t/complete-noise-kits-available/1991
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [April 6, 2023, 7:34pm UTC](https://forum.sensor.community/t/complete-noise-kits-available/1991 "2023-04-06T19:34:19Z")
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### Author:  [@HV04](https://forum.sensor.community/u/HV04)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2023, 7:34pm UTC](https://forum.sensor.community/t/complete-noise-kits-available/1991/1 "2023-04-06T19:34:19Z")
Hi here, we have been building and using about 20 dust sensors and now we are looking into a (few) noise sensors, based upon the variant - NODEMCU and DNMS separated -
Are there at this moment complete noise kits available, that is with pcb’s , other parts etc or haven’t we arrived at that point in time yet and will we still have to shop ourselves ?
Thanks for this nice forum, HV04
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### Author:  [@air-ais](https://forum.sensor.community/u/air-ais)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2023, 6:15pm UTC](https://forum.sensor.community/t/complete-noise-kits-available/1991/2 "2023-04-08T18:15:50Z")
Hi HV04 and welcome,
I am not sure if there are ready-to-build kits available, but there are some simpler standalone designs based on the esp32 that still require soldering and probably some gluing.
Our fellow forum member Diane @Deedee has experience with building noise sensors and might be able to provide us with more insight.
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### Author:  [@Deedee](https://forum.sensor.community/u/Deedee)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2023, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.sensor.community/t/complete-noise-kits-available/1991/3 "2023-04-08T19:19:39Z")
Hi, I have built noise sensors, but not from a kit. I had my printed circuits made from the kicad-file that I downloaded from the developers github.
Just looked in my box and I still have a printed circuit. If you are interested I could sell this print to you.
You need a Nodemcu, a Teensy 4.0 and a microphone. And two resistors.
You can combine it with an sps30 and a bme280.
I have ordered the parts at several suppliers.
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### Author:  [@HV04](https://forum.sensor.community/u/HV04)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2023, 7:16pm UTC](https://forum.sensor.community/t/complete-noise-kits-available/1991/4 "2023-04-09T19:16:43Z")
Hi air-ais, thanks for replying. I will have a look at Dedee’s reply.
I appreciate your info on the noise sensor.
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### Author:  [@HV04](https://forum.sensor.community/u/HV04)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2023, 7:35pm UTC](https://forum.sensor.community/t/complete-noise-kits-available/1991/5 "2023-04-09T19:35:29Z")
Deedee, thankyou for this info. It’s the first time I have to order pcb’s by sending Gerber files to a manufacturer; which was the reason for asking.
I’m interested to know if the sensors you build were indeed based upon the Esp8266 or was it Esp32 ?
Could you perhaps point me to info on the difference of versions V1.2 and V1.4 of the DNMS pcb ?
Thanks for offering to help.
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### Author:  [@Deedee](https://forum.sensor.community/u/Deedee)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2023, 8:42pm UTC](https://forum.sensor.community/t/complete-noise-kits-available/1991/6 "2023-04-09T20:42:37Z")
Hi, I don’t know the difference, but I can ask for you. I am in touch with Helmut Bitter, the developer of this sensor. He is very active. I saw that there is also a version 1.6 on his github [hbitter (Helmut Bitter) · GitHub](http://github.com/hbitter).
The prints I have ordered are version 1.2. These are with nodemcu version 3.0, but version 2.0 works as well.
The Nodemcu is a board with an esp8266.
You also need a teensy 4.0.
If create an account and login into github you can ask Helmut himself.
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### Author:  [@air-ais](https://forum.sensor.community/u/air-ais)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2023, 10:47pm UTC](https://forum.sensor.community/t/complete-noise-kits-available/1991/7 "2023-04-09T22:47:50Z")
You are very welcome.
For your reference, this is an alternative version that only uses the ESP32.
[https://revspace.nl/EspAudioSensor](https://revspace.nl/EspAudioSensor)
I am not sure if it’s performance is identical to the DNMS. There was a related [discussion](https://forum.sensor.community/t/getting-noise-data-into-sensor-community/828) going on about a couple of years ago, but I am not sure about the current status. I wonder if @bertrik would like to chime in.
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### Author:  [@Deedee](https://forum.sensor.community/u/Deedee)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2023, 7:52am UTC](https://forum.sensor.community/t/complete-noise-kits-available/1991/8 "2023-04-10T07:52:19Z")
I have one of my builts tested by a sound expert and it turned out to perform very well.
And recently it has been tested by a Dutch research Institute, together with a whole lot of other amateur builds.
My builds are the two most colourful ones.
I have the research report.
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### Author:  [@air-ais](https://forum.sensor.community/u/air-ais)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2023, 4:58pm UTC](https://forum.sensor.community/t/complete-noise-kits-available/1991/9 "2023-04-10T16:58:16Z")
By the way Diane, since we are at it, is there a recommened placement height?
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### Author:  [@Deedee](https://forum.sensor.community/u/Deedee)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2023, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.sensor.community/t/complete-noise-kits-available/1991/10 "2023-04-10T17:15:32Z")
As far as I know there is not. My sensor is hanging about 4 m high, but that’s because I live on the second floor.
If you register your sensor at the sensor community you have to register the placement height and position (garden, street) as well.
I am thinking about putting a LoRa noise sensor on the roof as well. That’s about 16 m.
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### Author:  [@air-ais](https://forum.sensor.community/u/air-ais)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2023, 5:32pm UTC](https://forum.sensor.community/t/complete-noise-kits-available/1991/11 "2023-04-10T17:32:56Z")
Yeah that makes sense. Thanks 😀
So are you considering a lora based esp32 board then？
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### Author:  [@Deedee](https://forum.sensor.community/u/Deedee)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2023, 6:56am UTC](https://forum.sensor.community/t/complete-noise-kits-available/1991/12 "2023-04-11T06:56:59Z")
Yes. Going to build one for the roof. Battery operated, and maybe with a solar panel as well.
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### Author:  [@Deedee](https://forum.sensor.community/u/Deedee)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2023, 7:24am UTC](https://forum.sensor.community/t/complete-noise-kits-available/1991/13 "2023-04-11T07:24:10Z")
I have already built two LoRa operated multigeigers. LoRa was quite complicated to learn as the manual was made for an older LoRa version. I have written a new manual on how to configure a LoRa multigeiger.
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### Author:  [@HV04](https://forum.sensor.community/u/HV04)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2023, 2:13pm UTC](https://forum.sensor.community/t/complete-noise-kits-available/1991/14 "2023-04-13T14:13:21Z")
Hi, Deedee, I found the PCB differences in the README.md from hbitter and they provide enhancements and small options to the print. Concerning your 2 sensors on the picture you sent, what were your main reasons for creating the new shape you use ?? Temperature perhaps ?
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### Author:  [@HV04](https://forum.sensor.community/u/HV04)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2023, 2:27pm UTC](https://forum.sensor.community/t/complete-noise-kits-available/1991/15 "2023-04-13T14:27:32Z")
That was at : \< [DNMS/PCBs at master · hbitter/DNMS · GitHub](https://github.com/hbitter/DNMS/tree/master/PCBs#english-text-below) \>
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### Author:  [@Deedee](https://forum.sensor.community/u/Deedee)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2023, 3:18pm UTC](https://forum.sensor.community/t/complete-noise-kits-available/1991/16 "2023-04-13T15:18:57Z")
No, just a protective housing that makes that the sensors are outside, but at the same time protected against rain.
An I like the shape.
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### Author:  [@Roland](https://forum.sensor.community/u/Roland)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2023, 7:48am UTC](https://forum.sensor.community/t/complete-noise-kits-available/1991/17 "2023-11-02T07:48:24Z")
Hi, I’m currently build a LoRaWAN based noise sensor. I use the [LoRaSoundkit](https://github.com/meekm/LoRaSoundkit) for my own project. I use the Heltec ESP32 LoRa v2 board and the NMP441 sensor. The solution should be powered by a solar panel. I reduced the CPU speed to 80 Mhz an the board needs now round about 35 mA in the main loop. It sends every 240 seconds the data to the [TTN](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/). From the TTN the data are sent to my own Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana stack, where I can view the data with Kibana and will forward the data via a Logstash pipeline to different other solutions (eg. sensor.community and opensensemap APIs).
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### Author:  [@Deedee](https://forum.sensor.community/u/Deedee)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2023, 10:29am UTC](https://forum.sensor.community/t/complete-noise-kits-available/1991/18 "2023-11-02T10:29:49Z")
I am not very experienced with lora. But you could have a look at this project.
> **[GitHub - meekm/LoRaSoundkit: This Soundkit sensor measures continuously audible...](https://github.com/meekm/LoRaSoundkit)**
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> This Soundkit sensor measures continuously audible sound by analyzing the data using FFT
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### Author:  [@Roland](https://forum.sensor.community/u/Roland)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2023, 12:58pm UTC](https://forum.sensor.community/t/complete-noise-kits-available/1991/19 "2023-11-02T12:58:30Z")
That is the project, what I’m currently using. Now I have to decide, how much resin (e.g. centimeters) I should fill in my 16 mm pvc pipe to fix the MEMS microphone INMP441. As case I will use the same solution as in mentioned in section 4.4 on [EspAudioSensor - RevSpace](https://revspace.nl/EspAudioSensor).
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### Author:  [@Deedee](https://forum.sensor.community/u/Deedee)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2023, 2:21pm UTC](https://forum.sensor.community/t/complete-noise-kits-available/1991/20 "2023-11-02T14:21:39Z")
What kind of resin do you use?
You could ask Marcel Meek directly. I haven’t met him yet in person but I am in an app group with him.
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