Full Tutorial - ESP32 + 4G Cellular + Battery Backed Ultimate Home Security System trigBoard/Boron

This is a massive tutorial showing you every detail in building the ultimate home security system that hosts its own network, so no existing WiFi or internet access needed. Also, it's battery backed! so even if AC power is lost, the system still works! trigBoard was designed to be insanely low power, so batteries can last for years and years!
Project details here: trigboard-docs...
Tindie link to trigBoard - options to add boards to build exact cellular based system as shown in video: www.tindie.com...
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[@bimmerboard]

Well done, Kevin! This is your old friend David C.... just stumbled across your channel and saw the esp32 trig board. I like it!

[@HayMap]

Just completed the full setup. Works flawlessly. Time to proceed with implementing this into our project. Thanks Kevin! Great job.

[@fishntools]

Appreciate the time and effort you put into creating these awesome vids.👍

[@purplePR0DUCTI0NS]

Absolutely love your content dude. Thanks for all the effort you put into these videos :) Also, I bought an Otii thanks to your demos in a previous video and I love it! Low-power IoT tech development is so much fun!!

[@Kevindarrah]

ha! cool yea I love that thing! I should tell them that! maybe they'll give me free stuff... lol

[@jafinch78]

Excellent detail! Thanks for sharing!

[@DanPancamo]

A quick video on how you send data from particle to grafana would be great.

[@vlad4281]

Great project, love your detailed explanations - Would love to see a esp32 Cam added to the system to see who is going through the door etc or even better to be able to watch a stream of video live ? Is that something you could consider doing ?

[@Kevindarrah]

thought about it, but now just use cheap Wyze cameras to log into when something happens. Might still be cool to integrate with this

[@Djkyle65]

Subscribed! Great Job

[@laboratoriodeprojetos1351]

Nice project.

[@weekendcruiser]

This is so cool. Would it be possible to add the Arducam in with this setup? Can the Boron send a photo over LTE? I'm thinking remote security for my sailboat but it would be nice to get a photo as well. The low power consumption is amazing! Cheers.

[@Kevindarrah]

yea I"ve been thinking about that. Just takes forever to upload an image, but maybe there's a better way

[@PhG1961]

Awesome video !

[@HayMap]

Is there a way to still use the gateway triggboard sensor input for reading a sensor on that circuit?

[@SergioIO79]

Is there any place I can learn about the electronics of your circuit? Or is it closed sourced? Great video.

[@Kevindarrah]

yea, you can go back through the trigBoard playlist - much of it has been discussed in detail in previous videos

[@shanebekker]

I think your Trigg Board is awesome but would cost me far to much to buy more than 10 of these with courier costing more than the board :-(. I will make an observation though that while the window opening sensors are good for knowing if a window is left open it can be bypassed by a burglar braking the window as they would do and then removing the glass to get in, suspecting the windows is wired. May be good to also have a vibration sensor for a window brake or a mic to detect one.

[@domoledlight]

thanks for this great video can you provide the link of particle cloud

[@josephd.4890]

Not very good at this so I have a question, if you're sending push notices to your phone, does this network have to have a paid account for the cell activity?

[@Kevindarrah]

*this might change, but right now it's a one time charge of $5 for the pushover service which gets you 7500 pushes a month (that's pretty good for their service). Then the Cellular data plan is $3/month, but I think they give you 3months free to start.

[@josephd.4890]

@@Kevindarrah that ks

[@josephd.4890]

*thanks

[@TOMTOM-nh3nl]

Thank You

[@TheUnofficialMaker]

Can I use the 2 trig boards I purchased Nov '19 for this project?

[@henrys6099]

Thanks for the great video. Boron LTE no longer available. I wonder if there's any alternative ?

[@Kevindarrah]

It's still available: Boron LTE CAT-M1 (NorAm) Starter Kit with EtherSIM

[@fedimakni1200]

I have a question, do this module use sim card?? if no how it send the data exactly through 4G. Thanks.

[@algre977]

Do you use ESPnow between gateway and other trigs ?

[@lemon9.9]

is there another way or we must use particle boron?

[@boulerhchamohammed7889]

Can i use it for esp32cam to sending video too esp32 with tft ...thanks

[@SteveWrightNZ]

Can the trigboard run over a LORA modem instead? I did have a google, couldn't find anything.

[@Kevindarrah]

yea, well could swap that Boron LTE modem for a LoRa module instead. It's just passing the data over a UART. Or if you meant at the trigBoard side, that can be done, but would be kind of overkill, since you have an ESP32 + LoRa at each door/window/etc.

[@SteveWrightNZ]

Kevin, is Rita after you or me, I can't tell mate! :D

[@mikehughesdesigns]

Can this setup handle WiFi and Cellular jammers?

[@awardfoto1]

Hi could the device send out a sensor reading after a wake up? Or can it be triggered or waked from an incoming sms and send a reading or photo back?

[@Kevindarrah]

yes, can send out sensor data when wakes - see the docs page and you'll see a temperature logging example. Cannot wake wirelessly though - you have to wake at interval and check for new data

[@Techn0man1ac]

А можно схему платы?

[@boulerhchamohammed7889]

Can u make it for sending video thanks

[@Kevindarrah]

that would be cool, I might dig into that... problem is that it will really kill the battery

[@ArnaudMEURET]

To dedicate a Trigboard to driving the modem is an inconvenient waste. That’s the job of plain old esp32 dev board which cost 10 times less.

[@Kevindarrah]

yep, that's true, any ESP32 could be used for the gateway side

[@canhtran3597]

How many mA for 1 month

[@Kevindarrah]

mA used? - see the docs page for battery under the hardware menu. There's a full breakdown of what kind of life you can get from a battery

[@flemlion13]

So it does not use ESP-Now I guess. Couldn't that improve the performance a bit?

[@Kevindarrah]

actually, performance is really good with UDP - I used to use encrypted ESP-Now, but I like this a lot more. On ESP32 the ESPNow functionality doesn't seem to work as well as it did on 8266