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

[@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

[@domoledlight]

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

[@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

[@Djkyle65]

Subscribed! Great Job

[@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

[@HayMap]

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

[@lemon9.9]

is there another way or we must use particle boron?

[@laboratoriodeprojetos1351]

Nice project.

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@mikehughesdesigns]

Can this setup handle WiFi and Cellular jammers?

[@boulerhchamohammed7889]

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

[@TheUnofficialMaker]

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

[@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

[@algre977]

Do you use ESPnow between gateway and other trigs ?

[@PhG1961]

Awesome video !

[@TOMTOM-nh3nl]

Thank You

[@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

[@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

[@Techn0man1ac]

А можно схему платы?

[@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

[@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

[@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