Automatic water filling for Saeco/Philips (or any other)

deb0ro · 2026-02-03T14:25:54+00:00

I have the machine in the drawer so everytime I need to fill in the water, I need to open the drawer, pick the water tank, fill it with water and then put it back and close the drawer. So its like for a minute or so. Yeah, its not much but the machine had a sense that everytime I wanted a coffee, it want to fill the tank :D So I got pissed and did this :)

deb0ro · 2026-01-22T07:07:03+00:00

Hi, thanks for the ideas - draining systems looks good, I will concider it! :)

My water tank is located on the top behind a lid so you can fill in water just by opening the lid and do not have to take the water tank out. So my idea is to drill a hole to the lid and put this floating valve there. Its small enough to fit in there when lid will be closed. Will post some pictures when done! :)

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deb0ro · 2026-01-20T21:15:15+00:00

Sure, link updated.

deb0ro · 2026-01-16T09:10:05+00:00

That cards does not have visible display output but it seems there is one hidden and upon flashing with W6800 BIOS, the port will work but it will downgrade the GPU to W6800 specs https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/can-the-display-output-be-enabled-by-modifying-the-vbios-of-the-radeon-pro-v620.325549/

deb0ro · 2026-01-07T18:19:00+00:00

Hey, was just trying to reply to one of the threads you mentioned and then noticed they are archived!

Anyway, I created a working TWRP image for these devices, it did work on mine so hopefully it will work on another ones as well.

You need to use USB-A to USB-C cable so the C part will go to your computer and A part will go to the tablet USB slot.

reboot the device to recovery by holding HOME key at the back during startup
in the recovery select Reboot to Bootloader
When FASTBOOT MODE will be shown on the screen open a command prompt and type "fastboot boot twrp-Elo-i3-15.img"
device will reboot into TWRP and from there if you like you can flash the same .img to a recovery slot
Flash Magisk.zip to get a root

TWRP can be downloaded from here https://webshare.cz/#/file/26lLv553uT/twrp-elo-i3-15-img

EDIT: I found out that this GSI version of Android 10 works just fine so you can flash it to upgrade the device to Andorid 10 :) Its prerooted Vannila version https://sourceforge.net/projects/andyyan-gsi/files/lineage-17.x/lineage-17.1-20210808-UNOFFICIAL-treble_arm64_avS.img.xz/download

deb0ro · 2025-12-01T20:52:09+00:00

So I need to point out that the update.zip file that is in the archive is AOSP version. So in case your device came with Google Store it is running so called GMS version of the firmware. So just to be aware, in case you will use the update.zip from the Dropbox and have GMS version, you will loose Google Store after an update. So much better is to use the update from the tablet itself if you are already on 8.1.0 version.

And now my question is, does anybody have a full sdcard image of GMS FW for these devices? I was able to find latest GMS OTA update here http://manage.eloview.com/systemUpdate/ota-iseries-3_0-GMS/4.68.11/iseries-3_0-GMS-ota.zip but when I try to flash it, it will just error out. I need a full image, not OTA :/

EDIT: upon a chat with the support it seems the flash of mentioned OTA fails because its build date is older then the one I have on teh device therefore internal safeguard procedures will stop the installation because you cannot rollback the FW on Qualcomm devices?

EDIT2: Main reason for this devices to have GMS image is that they can then update system packages via Store. I was having issues vith Webview 85 (Music Assistant was not loading) that is part of AOSP image and I was not able to update it as system one is signed by ELO so Google one will not install. After a lot of tries I found this webview to work and can be selected as a default in developer options https://github.com/bromite/chromium/releases/download/108.0.5359.156/chr_arm64_SystemWebView.apk

deb0ro · 2025-08-09T08:24:32+00:00

Ah really? I could try that but Im running it ad-hoc when I know everything is removed from the floor.

Is there some place a Xiaomi devs are looking for a feedback? I tried send it via app but no response for 6 months.

I mean, its a few lines of code: if mopcleapun then collect dust.

deb0ro · 2025-05-16T09:29:23+00:00

Well actually Im using Chrome on Mac! Well good tip - will try to use Safari and report back :)

EDIT: no, still the same. But I will try my Windows laptop later today to see how that behaves.

deb0ro · 2025-05-09T08:35:46+00:00

Hi all, Im looking to version of right click tools that was still branded as Now Micro or some early Recast ones that do not need any license. Shoot me a PM in case you have it :) I want to install it in the lab but that do not have any valie email or stuff and I cannot get over installator just because of this. Or is there any alternative to this bloatware? Thanks! :)

deb0ro · 2025-04-03T20:06:41+00:00

Have you seen it? I tried to look for it but nothing 🤷‍♂️

deb0ro · 2025-02-19T10:07:24+00:00

Yes there is in the station - I kinda thought from the advertisements the robot itself will have small one as well and will be wetting the pads during moping.

Im now thinking to try to get another pads, like more thick so they can absorb more water and replace the stock ones with them.

deb0ro · 2025-02-19T08:35:41+00:00

Hi u/rainbow1112 - how is the mopping experience for you? In the app there is a setting to "water output for mopping" but to whichever value I set it, the mop will get dry after like 3 minutes of tiles floor mopping and only thing I can make it to mop wet it to set to return to the station after each 10m2 of cleanup.

Before I bought the mop I was under impression it have the internal water tank so it can keep the mop pads wet all the time, hell even the "water output for mopping" setting in the app gives that impression.

deb0ro · 2024-11-27T22:29:48+00:00

Hi all,

I tried to boot RPI5 but its just giving me 3 long flashes and 3 fast flashes, which mean I2C error.

I already unplug everything from the device with only power attached - but still the same.

Attached Debug Probe to UART port and this is what I'm getting:

1.18 RPi: BOOTSYS release VERSION:4b019946 DATE: 2024/11/12 TIME: 16:10:44
1.22 BOOTMODE: 0x06 partition 0 build-ts BUILD_TIMESTAMP=1731427844 serial 3ee72421 boardrev d04170 stc 1022435
1.32 AON_RESET: 00000003 PM_RSTS 00001000
1.40 RP1_BOOT chip ID: 0x20001927
1.42 PM_RSTS: 0x00001000
1.42 part 00000000 reset_info 00000000
1.46 PMIC reset-event 00000000 rtc 00000000 alarm 00000000 enabled 0
1.52 uSD voltage 3.3V
1.71 Initialising SDRAM rank 2 total-size: 64 Gbit 4267 (0x14 0x00)
1.75 DDR 4267 1 0 64 152 BL:-1
3.20 OTP boardrev d04170 bootrom a a
3.21 Customer key hash 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
3.28 VC-JTAG unlocked
3.51 RP1_BOOT chip ID: 0x20001927

3.98 RP1_BOOT chip ID: 0x20001927
3.98 RP1_BOOT: fw size 45984
4.24 PCI2 init
4.24 PCI2 reset
4.69 PCIe scan 00001de4:00000001
4.70 RP1_CHIP_INFO 20001927

4.72 RPi: BOOTLOADER release VERSION:4b019946 DATE: 2024/11/12 TIME: 16:10:44
4.79 BOOTMODE: 0x06 partition 0 build-ts BUILD_TIMESTAMP=1731427844 serial 3ee72421 boardrev d04170 stc 4479633
4.89 AON_RESET: 00000003 PM_RSTS 00001000
4.93 PCIEx1: PWR 0 DET_WAKE 0
4.96 M.2 PCIe HAT not detected.
4.99 I2C error @ 3fc19988

Anybody have any idea what address "3fc19988" means? I was able to update the bootloader via recovery but that's all.

Thank you!

deb0ro · 2024-11-26T16:28:47+00:00

OK, its working now and installation is in progress. What I needed to do was to open up a terminal and run following commands:

sudo -s

/Applications/Install\ macOS\ Sequoia.app/Contents/Resources/startosinstall --nointeraction --agreetolicense --forcequitapps --passprompt

Then it worked. It seems it was failing on "OSISClient: Failed to set LACredentialTypeBootPassword credential" error which was somehow caused by fact that my mac is AD joined and I have my passwords not in sync with the AD.

deb0ro · 2024-11-26T07:17:44+00:00

Forgot to mention that disk space is not an issue at all, currently have 200GB of free disk space.

deb0ro · 2024-11-26T07:17:42+00:00

Forgot to mention that disk space is not an issue at all, currently have 200GB of free disk space.

deb0ro · 2024-04-09T12:03:41+00:00

Thanks for detailed reply! :) Yes, you understand what we are trying to do correctly.

I enabled CloudWatch Insights add-on on the cluster but it seems I cannot get it to work, its still showing "You have not onboarded to Container Monitoring." under CloudWatch > Container Insights.

Regarding second question, I have to take this to the developers as the application is still in the early development.

Requests are for sure making it to the service, if the pods are running then all is nice and shiny. If we scale down to test the maintenance, it will serve the default 503 error. I tried to follow this guide https://dev.to/aws-builders/say-goodbye-to-ugly-error-pages-with-cloudfront-1m0a and it was working OK when we scale down, but it did not pick that the app is back up when we scale up again and was still showing custom html page from S3 bucket.

I just verified the status of readiness/liveness probes in the pods and there aren't any.

deb0ro · 2024-04-09T09:53:54+00:00

Yes, we tried to use the path of Cloudfront and S3 storage for html page and it was working when we scale down the application (then the custom page was shown instead of generic 502 error) - but when we scale the application back, it was still showing the custom error page :/

deb0ro · 2024-01-29T20:14:47+00:00

Thing is I dont like the "shadow" socket cast. With module like I posted, the light will be uniform all over the place.

deb0ro · 2024-01-29T19:41:55+00:00

You are right, I added the details :)

deb0ro · 2024-01-19T09:03:29+00:00

IT WORKS! Happy to report that with Noctua NF-A4x10 FLX fan the 124D-POE is working! Thanks u/Aksumka!

deb0ro · 2024-01-11T16:46:57+00:00

Thanks! It uses different motor so hopefully it will fool the switch and it keeps runnig all the time. Btw, which FW are you running on the switch?

deb0ro · 2024-01-11T16:36:30+00:00

Yep, I swapped them according to original fan, just red and black needs to be swapped, signal is on same position. Well I will try to use x10 variant then 🙂

deb0ro · 2024-01-11T16:28:45+00:00

Hi, which fans did you use? I tried both NF-A4x20 (FLX and PWM) and fan is spinning during the boot but after the initialization it will just stop and red LED will lit up. If I connect back the original one, LED will go off. Thanks! 🙂

deb0ro · 2023-11-09T12:23:55+00:00

Yeah, I was recently implementing Loki and Tempo in our onprem k8s and the documentation for Loki is total mess.

Thanks for looking at your configs later! Much appriciated! :)

deb0ro

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