The S1 Cafe - Helping Your Espresso Dreams Become Reality

Well 5 years on and while cleansing the house of X10 devices I changed the X10 universal module that's been semi-reliably controlling our Spaz mini to a super cheap esp8266 wifi processor based relay board. Updated my writeup here . Just picked up an esp8266 with a relay (month away, coming from Ch...

The first and probably the toughest part of making this mod is to get into the keypad panel housing (small plastic box) and solder wires to pins 1&6 which are the on/off button (actually, 1 is ground and 6 is the on/off line). I initially used the toggle switch solution described by JonW above ...

Thank you Chas and great point. Even if I could get it at a great price, those additions are not without cost, even if it is a V2; not to mention general wear and tear parts over the years of use.

Not a bad idea to post up on the swap meet and see if anything shakes out.

Thanks so much. I will have him give it a try and see what happens. Assuming it has a V2 control board, I could just send it to Chris' for the 2008 firmware update, +/- change the pressure gauge, and +/- change the temp sticker to 1 deg. instead of 5 deg and then I would essentially have a V2 top to...

I am looking at a used S1 and am hoping for some help in deciphering if it is a V1 or V2. I read through the V1 vs. V2 photo page and here is what I have gathered. 1.) Manufactured in 2007 2.) Round steam pressure gauge only 3.) Temp in 5 deg. increments 4.) New style temp probe in boiler 5.) Plasti...