💬 Livolo 3 buttons US/AU switch adapter

[tonnerre33]

@mtiutiu said in 💬 Livolo 3 buttons US/AU switch adapter:
Oh sry, i read the wrong value, and now i'm agree 100u is big ;)

[achurak1]

So how's the testing going? I'm thinking to try to have seeed to print and assemble the pcb for me as I hate to even think about soldering all of these smd parts manually :)

[Nca78]

@achurak1 I have problems with the touch sensors, I'm redesigning the PCB now to improve sensibility.
The good news is radio performance is great, not a single failure.

[achurak1]

@Nca78 Awesome, thanks for the update!

[Nca78]

Just finished the new version of the board, I'll check it again tomorrow and send it to Seeed to get the PCB.

[achurak1]

@Nca78 - Great! Do you believe the new version has all of the issues fixed?

[Nca78]

@achurak1 said in 💬 Livolo 3 buttons US/AU switch adapter:

@Nca78 - Great! Do you believe the new version has all of the issues fixed?

Else I wouldn't say it's "finished" ;) (but be careful it's not online yet...)
Did all items in the "todo list" on openhardware.io page, I just had a problem with the holes to put the plastic circles as I had too many wires going to the radio, so it won't be possible to use those from the Livolo switch. They are not absolutely necessary but I will make a 3D printed "separator" to block the light between the different switches.

I also added more extra leds to the center button, there are 4 extra leds now in case you want to use center button for mode/scene selector.

[achurak1]

@Nca78 - makes sense :) When are you going to upload the gerber files?

[Nca78]

@achurak1 said in 💬 Livolo 3 buttons US/AU switch adapter:

@Nca78 - makes sense :) When are you going to upload the gerber files?

When I can confirm all problems are solved :P
Should not be too long I will send to Seeed tomorrow or Friday and use Fedex or DHL, their prototype PCB price is so insanely low now (4.9$ for up to 10*10cm) that from the 2nd PCB it's cheaper with them using DHL than with DirtyPCB :o

[Nca78]

I just posted new design files and gerber files (but please don't order now, I will receive PCBs only on Friday and then I need a few days before I can test them...

I also put a bit of documentation but it still needs (a lot of) improvements :)

[achurak1]

@Nca78 - Thanks for the update! Looks like shipping takes a lot of time even with the DHL delivery. Will be waiting for you to test and give us green light to order the PCBs :)

[Nca78]

@achurak1 said in 💬 Livolo 3 buttons US/AU switch adapter:

@Nca78 - Thanks for the update! Looks like shipping takes a lot of time even with the DHL delivery. Will be waiting for you to test and give us green light to order the PCBs :)

I took a lot of time to finish all my other PCBs before sending to Seeed.
Then they didn't like my panelized boards (they changed rules but didn't update their website) so I lost over a day to repost.
Then they packed the boards at the end of last week just in time to go on holidays and DHL picked them up only yesterday :(

[Nca78]

And now blocked at customs and I have to deal with the insane local DHL customer service again...
Last time I waste my money with DHL :angry:

[achurak1]

@Nca78 - I ordered my PCBs (not Livolo) around the same time you did using Hongkong post and they just arrived yesterday. Never had to deal with the customs...

[mtiutiu]

@Nca78

Oh man...I wanted things to come faster at my door like you did and in the end I had to pay 6 times!!! the price of the boards because of the customs, DHL fees and so on. But I learned from that and I'll NEVER EVER AGAIN go that way. That's just crazy.

[hek]

@mtiutiu, that's crazy.

[Nca78]

@mtiutiu said in 💬 Livolo 3 buttons US/AU switch adapter:

@Nca78

Oh man...I wanted things to come faster at my door like you did and in the end I had to pay 6 times!!! the price of the boards because of the customs, DHL fees and so on. But I learned from that and I'll NEVER EVER AGAIN go that way. That's just crazy.

I had many PCBs to order so it didn't reach those proportions: 39$ for PCBs, 30$ for shipping.
Then 8$ of DHL fee and 8$ of VAT.
That's too much shipment and customs fees for the time it took to get my order (over 2 weeks)

@achurak1 last time I ordered with HK Post and I had an endless wait without tracking, over 1 month, so I decided to never use it again.

[Nca78]

@achurak1 said in 💬 Livolo 3 buttons US/AU switch adapter:

@Nca78 - makes sense :) When are you going to upload the gerber files?

Soldered a few components today, I will try to finish and start testing before the end of the week.

[achurak1]

@Nca78 - great! By the way, will I be able to use it with my dimmable switches (even if I lose the dimming functionality) or do I need the non-dimmable version?

[Nca78]

@achurak1 said in 💬 Livolo 3 buttons US/AU switch adapter:

switches

I'm not sure it will work with dimmers. I bought a dimmer version to have a look and there's another MCU on the "main" board. So I will need to see how the communicate to implement that on a new version.
I will make the test with the dimmer version anyway, and tell you.