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Re: CatGenie; Experience and realtime cycle monitoring
Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 10:55 am
by MindBender
The alternative firmware is getting quite mature. And e beta testers Google groups is now open to the public. So if you want to take a look you're most welcome at:
http://groups.google.com/group/catgenius
Re: CatGenie; Experience and realtime cycle monitoring
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 10:07 am
by MindBender
I know this is a bit of an old topic to revive, but there is a solution now to monitor your CatGenie in real time. It's called CartridgeGenius and you can read all about it here:
http://www.litterbox-central.com/litter ... c3601.html
This device is basically developed to allow CatGenie owners to refill their cartridges. It replaces the internal RF-ID chip reader and the installation process in completely reversible. When installed, CartridgeGenius fully emulates the RF-ID chip reader and a cartridge chip, to make CatGenie think everything is as it should be.
Especially interesting to people on this forum is that CartridgeGenius has a serial port reporting when the cartridge level has been decreased (=washing cycle started). It also reports the absolute level of the cartridge, so this can be incorporated in a Domotica system, to notify the user when the cartridge needs to be refilled.