{"id":18035,"date":"2018-01-09T19:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T18:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18035"},"modified":"2018-01-09T16:14:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T15:14:15","slug":"monitor-for-barks-and-calm-down-your-dog-by-playing-sounds-on-a-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18035","title":{"rendered":"Monitor for barks and calm down your dog by playing sounds on a Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cute Dog Alert!<\/p><\/div>\n

It must be Animal Day…<\/p>\n

Jennifer Fox’s dog (pictured above – awwww, cuteness!) has a habit of barking whilst Jennifer is away from the house. This does not go down well with the neighbours. So, she’s developed a system which monitors the sound levels in the house and then plays a sound file to calm the dog down. To monitor the sound level, she uses a MEMs microphone board from SparkFun<\/a>\u00a0together with a good old MCP3002 analog to digital converter. She also uploads any data produced to CloudMQTT<\/a>. You can read about this lovely project over on the FoxBot Industries blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s a demo of the system in action:<\/p>\n