I'm struggling with a project here. I have an Elechomes EC5501 air humidifier that I want to make "smart". When taking it apart, I found out it uses a circuit board similar in most points to this one here. But on mine, there is a 4-pin connector labeled "UART" that connects the humidifier with the display. By measuring I found out there is a 5V pin, a GND pin, and 2 RX/TX pins that enable communication between the user interface (display with touch buttons) and the main unit with ultrasonic + thermal humidification and the humidity sensor. I now built a small connector that goes between those plugs and has all 4 wires go out so I can measure on them. When rigging up my logic analyzer I get the following communication coming up every ~8 ms:
This should be the communication of the display unit asking for a sensor reading (Channel 1) and possibly what is the main unit's answer (Channel 0). What brings me to this conclusion is the Ch1 line going low just a few µs before the signal on Ch0 starting. Also Ch0 looks like DHT11-type answer code for me - long pulse = 1, short pulse = 0. As you see, there is a significant long low-time on Ch1 in between (see red circle). This makes it nearly impossible for me to fit a UART analysis in in Saleae Logic without it throwing frame errors. What also makes me wonder are two thing: 1.) There are some very short pulses in between with a high-time of 600 ns. I think I can possibly just ignore those (see red circle). 2.) the shortest pulses I can measure besides on this line are 16-20 µs long. This would make a Baudrate between 50000 and 62500 - so possibly 57600? The strange thing is, although the display should just ask for values as I don't do anything on it, the codes seem to change a bit every time:
Those are 4 adjacent requests. Does anybody have an idea on how to interpret this?
If you want to have a closer look, the file is uploaded for viewing in Saleae Logic right here.
EDIT: Just realized the short pulses might still be important. It seems that there are 9 pulses transmitted on CH0, and then there comes a short pulse on Ch1, followed by a short pause on both channel before CH0 starts to transmit the next 9 (or, in one case, 10) bits.
There is a small IC on the bottom side of the circuit board with a SOIC-16 package, but without any labeling.