OPCN3Mints

This library is written for the Alphasense OPC-N3 air qualilty monitoring sensor.

Alphasense OPCN3

Arduino Due

The Alphasense OPCN3 is an Optical Particle counter designed to measure and record air quality data. This implimetation is designed to read particulate mattaer data from the OPCN3 with an Arduino Due. The library can be easilly modified to be used with any Arduino supported device with an SPI interface.

Supported functions:

begin() :
initialize();
setFanDigitalPotShutdownState(bool status);
setLaserDigitalPotShutdownState(bool status);
setHighLowGainState(bool status);
readDACandPowerStatus();
readInformationString();
readSerialNumber();
readFirmwareVersion();
readConfigurationVariables();
readHistogramData() ;
readPMData() ;
resetHistogram();

Repository structure

/examples - An example sketch desiged to initiate and read alpha sensor data is included here.
/src - Source files for the OPCN3Mints library is found here.

On a Nano

Nano	OPC	OPC Pin	Color	Nano Pin
Vcc	Vcc	1	Red	5V
Sck	Sck	2	Yellow	D13
MISO	SDO	3	Green	D12
MOSI	SDI	4	Blue	D11
Digital Pin	SS	5	White	D10
Gnd	GND	6	Black	Gnd