Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Up grade Lighting / IOT

 I have built another switch panel (Port) with a 8 x relay in it. It has no ESP 32 in it presently and needs a more robust connector system. I will probably need to use KiCAD to design and effective junction board. It will run the desk lighting as well as outside.

The Aft Starboard Master one has the Raspberry Pi and operates perfectly - though could use more elegant wall fixings. 

The Fwd Starboard one has a and ESP32 that failed when I was fitting lights in the shower and they shorted out the 12 volt. It either blew up the ESP32 or , more likely, corrupted the Programming. 

I am not sure where the  documentation went to cover all the firmware. 

I experimented with chatGPT and with plain English specs got it to output code to run the ESP 32. I haven't actually tried it but it looked sounds enough. 

Be good to get the cameras going too. They have failed and I dont know why. No particular event - just no data feed.