Bit the bullet and ordered one, even though it’s quite expensive with shipping to the uk. You’ve done a grand job Kevin. I’m looking forward to using it.
Very cool. Sorry you had an issue but it was nice to see the troubleshooting and work around. Learned a lot from this. Thanks for sharing and documenting all of your work!
Love your work mate! Thought I'd add in a bit of info regarding 240V Aussie smokies (AS3786-2014) Typically your interconnect wire puts out an elv signal 9-12V referenced to the circuit neutral. Us Aussies shouldn't need to hack into a smokie due to this feature built in.
Hey Kevin. As usual, love what you're doing! I am just disapointed that you are not doing videos about how works trigboard V8 internally anymore. But that the way it goes...when something begins to bring cash...something that was open source , open hardware before...suddendly become propriatary. No offence. Just the way it goes...sad
given that there is a trig1 and trig2 pin already on the interface, did you try those to see if they give you exactly what you want for smoke and CO triggers?
yea that was my thought as well, but do not show any response when alarming... but that was only with the test button. I might see what that RS232 output looks like though
you don't need a esp32, too many wasted input channels, same for a esp266, you can use a esp-01, a 2 channel unit to do your same job, and is more compact also than your esp32 big unit
Freaking genius !! Thank you so much for taking the time to do this. Part1 was just as good.
thanks!
Bit the bullet and ordered one, even though it’s quite expensive with shipping to the uk. You’ve done a grand job Kevin. I’m looking forward to using it.
thanks - yea shipping is crazy... will go out Monday!
@@Kevindarrah Well it’s only money 😊 Cheers mate.
Very cool. Sorry you had an issue but it was nice to see the troubleshooting and work around. Learned a lot from this. Thanks for sharing and documenting all of your work!
Nice little project. Good item for a shed shop or out building.
thanks - yea my plan is to rig this up to the 3D printer in case something bad happens
Great video, and a great walkthough of how to react to unexpected problems
Thanks for sharing your experience to all of us :-)
Love your work mate! Thought I'd add in a bit of info regarding 240V Aussie smokies (AS3786-2014) Typically your interconnect wire puts out an elv signal 9-12V referenced to the circuit neutral. Us Aussies shouldn't need to hack into a smokie due to this feature built in.
Great vid! Going to order a trig board today.
Hi Kevin! This is exactly what I have been wanting to do for the last 2 years (but no time for it, sigh). Are you going to publish the V8 schematic?
cool thanks - not sure when I'll release drawings...
Hey Kevin. As usual, love what you're doing! I am just disapointed that you are not doing videos about how works trigboard V8 internally anymore. But that the way it goes...when something begins to bring cash...something that was open source , open hardware before...suddendly become propriatary. No offence. Just the way it goes...sad
yea I hear you - got more open designs coming. trigSolar is coming and will be open source!
given that there is a trig1 and trig2 pin already on the interface, did you try those to see if they give you exactly what you want for smoke and CO triggers?
yea that was my thought as well, but do not show any response when alarming... but that was only with the test button. I might see what that RS232 output looks like though
WOW 🤪 where did you ever get the idea to hook that thing to a smoke detector?!? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
you don't need a esp32, too many wasted input channels, same for a esp266, you can use a esp-01, a 2 channel unit to do your same job, and is more compact also than your esp32 big unit
yea, for sure can use those - just keep an eye on sleep current