A Litter Box contolled by a Raspberry Pi computer that tweets
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- I removed the Litter Robots electronic circuit board and replaced it with a Raspberry Pi computer so that I could customize the operation of my cat's Litter Robot.
My cat's litter box usage can be viewed on twitter: / litterboxtweets
This guy REALLY LOVES his cat. Mad props.
Hey Tony. I'm an engineer also. How can I contact you? Couldn't find any contact on CZcams or twitter. Thanks in advance
Hey I’m very familiar with rasp pi, electronics, sensors etc. I’m going to go ahead and do this. Where did you buy the computer case for you pi?
hey
im trying to do a similar project as my litter robot dfi sensor is causing issues.
how do you control the motor? what driver did you use?
Hi Tony.
Thus is great! We own litter robots and are very frustrated with their flakyness and have been thinking about doing something similar. When I stumbled across your video and realized that we may not have to reinvent the wheel, if, of coarse you are willing to share. I can code and my hubs can do circuit boards and other hardware things. Are you willing to post details of how you put this all together? Your help is appreciated. Thank you!
This is the coolest thing i've seen all week. Kudos man!
also my girlfriend wants desperately to know: Why?
Hi- Nice project. I have often thought of doing something similar, although chiefly because I have over the years found the circuit boards on my LRs to die or become wonky and it just drives me nuts to have to replace them. I am extremely familiar with programming for the Pi and am fine on the hardware side needed. However, I was hoping to avoid monkeying around with my multimeter to read the signals or loads on the various pins for state changes and driving the motor. Would be great if you could post your project on Github or similar. Thanks.
Hi, I want to get some metrics out of my LR3 open air, could you share some technical details about the sensors used in the LR3 ? I know that it´s using a 4-pin (DFI - Drawer Full Indicator), 6-pin
(Motor and power), and the 8-pin (Hall Effect sensor). I´m not sure what´s used fot the cat detection ? Probably something on the 8 Pin Hall Effect Sonsro Connector ? Would be great of you could just share the sensor specs , I can look up how to pull / process the data, this would save me some time and work dismantling the whole unit.
Thanks a loot for the support !
thanks, I think the LR3 open air uses a FSR Sensor instead of a micro switch for cat detection, is it wired to the 8 pin connector label with hall effect sensor in the repair manuals ? going to dismantle unit today and check
This is awesome! Would you be willing to share your setup with someone wanting to do the same?
I'm not good enough to write something to do this from scratch, but I work with Python at work - mostly modifying existing programs (lots of debugging).
@@teslacoil I don't have a warranty; I'm working from scratch. I'm also interested.
I mean unplug the sensor wires and motor wire from the control board above the entrance hole. Now these are all inside a white cable that is attached to the side of the entrance to the bottom of the machine where all the sensors/motor is. I'd just take this cable bundle, follow the wires to the appropriate sensor and label them. Now you just need to research each of the sensors and figure how to connect it to the rasp pi i/o pins. I would just start with the motor control first so you can empty the cat litter manually until you have the rest od the sensors figured out and hooked up. @@teslacoil