I'm building a new smart home and is prospecting to use KinCony products for the smart controls that will offer me the following features:

- Smart control of devices via ethernet, website, mobile app, wifi and bluetooth, Alexa and home assistance on remote base. Though, I will also use cable for reliability and efficiency.

QUESTIONS:
- Can i integrate smart touch wall switches as a second level control and alternative switch for designated gadget like ceiling led lighting point for manual control? 
- In case of KC868 server goes down or hanged. Can kincony manual switch work effectively.
- Can i assign IP address to the kincony server from my home router network without using the sim card, so that it can access internet from my home internet router.
- Can i integrate my water pump level switch to the controller to control the pumping for water to the reservoir.
- Can i integrate a physical timer switch to control designated output for designated gadget or do you have a software that can take care of the timing of some output/terminal from the server.

BUILDING:
- Five Bedroom duplex with two sitting room, one kitchen and control room in Nigeria.
- 80 bulbs. some paired together. I will also use smart touch wall switches to manually switch off/on the lights as a second level control.
- 2 doors sensors with remote access to lock and unlock.
- Temperature sensors and smoke dictators 
-  What component will satisfy all the requirements in building the kincony smart distribution box?
- 15kw Solar energy powered

I await for your feedback and look forward to work with you and also publish my work on your youtube and other social media channels

Many Thanks.

Hello Sir, thanks for good work. I use your boards KC868-A8S, I have like 5 of them but I have problems with  "authentication expired"' that happens on home assistant randomly after a while. Could you please help me prevent it?

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Hello:
I've got two KC868-A16 and now I'm trying to upload the firmware, but it replies me with an error on Erasing:


It keeps for a Long time and it returns a TimeOut error

Also, I've been trying with the ESP_FLASHER tool with similar result:


I tried with both cards and, the result is the same 
Also I've been trying to upload it pushing Reset and Download Buttons, with no different result

I was trying tou upload from a Fedora 39 and also from a MacOS (Silicon M3)

any idea what is going on?

Thank you

Hi all,
Not sure what am I missing, but spent already 2 hours browsing the internet on how to get connected to the A16 on first power on...
Just received my brand new KC868-A16 and it's my very first experience with Kincony.

The device is now powered up, but I can't neither connect via LAN nor WiFi.
LAN just doesn't get connected to my router, though it has standard 192.168.0.x network. The UDP_SCAN_LIST tool doesn't detect the board (my PC is on Wifi, but on the same network as physically Ethernet-connected A16, it sees other devices on the ethernet).
A16's WiFi AP is not visible either.

I tried resetting the device by holding the "download" button for 10 sec, no luck.

How to get started?

Jarek

Hello, the inputs on my a8s v2 dont work.

If i short the gnd with any of the input pins nothing happens.
All the relays work fine. Im using I2C address 0x22 for input pcf8574.

Im using the board with esphome.

Code snipet for input

binary_sensor:
   
- platform: gpio
  name: input1
  ID:”input1”
  pin:
     pcf8574: pcf8754_hub_in
     number: 0
     mode: INPUT


Please advise

Thank you

As I reported in an email to "hificat" earlier this week, Input 8 of my brand new AIO board is stuck in the on state. For a day or two, it worked normally, but it is misbehaving again. Not sure what to do.
Regards,
Telewizard13

   

Hi Guys

I want to connect my KC868-AI to a couple of output expanders on my alarm panel.

The alarm provides a -ve switched output.

I am considering, given that the KC868 will get 12v from the alarm panel (ie common power rails), I can just use the switched negative to the KC868 input, as that will pull it low.

First question - are the inputs "KCOM" black connector tied to the KC868 power supply input ground or are they isolated?

Second question - do you think its probable that I can just connect the alarm panel output to the KC868 input, and leave the "KCOM" black connector empty, and hope/assume the input will float high, and get pulled low to switch the KC868 when the panel pulls it low?

Many thanks for your thoughts.

   
I have been trying to install a Dallas temperature probe on the AIO board and have been unsuccessful. I used an Arduino Uno and a sketch to retrieve the address of the 10 probe(s) I purchased and as I got the address I marked a number on the probes to keep them identified. I tried two different probes, red lead to +3.5V, Black to GND and tried both IO pins 4 & 5 to no avail. I get an error in the logs that I have no idea what to do with.

Hello,

I have a KC868-A16S and I follow the exemple to read analog input from 4-20mA input.
But do you know why my raw value isn't linear?
I use analog input 4 for my test who is an 0-20mA input.
I have measure raw value from 1mA to 20mA but these value aren't linear.

What can I do?

1 mA -> 17
2 mA -> 208
3 mA -> 390
4 mA -> 582
5 mA -> 763
6 mA -> 958
7 mA -> 1140
8 mA -> 1340
9 mA -> 1525
10 mA -> 1715
11 mA -> 1906
12 mA -> 2095
13 mA -> 2287
14 mA -> 2465
15 mA -> 2663
16 mA -> 2850
17 mA -> 3045
18 mA -> 3253
19 mA -> 3483
20 mA -> 3760

thank you

Nicolouts

We have designed ESP32-S3 Smart IR Controller - KinCony AG8. it support install by DIN RAIL. it use ESP32-S3-WROOM-1U N16R8 chip. small PCB with RS485, RS232, 1-wire GPIOs, 8 channel IR sender terminal.  Support expand infrared emission tube for long distance cable. board support both wifi and ethernet port. It can use for smart home IoT project use by home assistant, you can config ymal by ESPHome. ESP32-S3 also support arduino IDE / MicroPython / ESP-IDF development tool.
note: Node: ESP32-S3 chip support 4 channel IR sender work at the same time. here is details by ESPHome webpage:
https://esphome.io/components/remote_transmitter.html

PCB size: 83mm*100mm
Power supply: DC 9-24V
RS232:1
RS485:1
Free GPIOs:14
IR Receiver:1
IR Sender:8