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Pev, I wish you luck in finding a timer to test.
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Pev, I can see this is quite a bit more involved than I had realized and well over my head regarding the technology. I’ll be very interested to see how it goes as your investigation progresses. I looked up the Pico oscilloscopes and PicoScope 6. Looks like a sweet tool. So in the sample chart that y...

Pev, It’s cool that you, as an embedded systems engineer, are working to understand how this could be done. I’m not familiar with the M5Stack – I’ll check it out. I had envisioned using a Global Cache iTach to deliver serial codes to the control board, https://www.globalcache.com/products/itach/wf2s...

Thanks, GDK. It sounds like that's the way to go.

Thank you, chas. Yes, I’ve seen much of the discussion about this here on S1 Cafe. I was reluctant to break out the soldering iron when my machine was still under warranty but I might consider doing that now. I’ve also been reluctant to spend the money on the stock optional timer for scheduled opera...

I’ve wondered about this myself for my Vivaldi II. It seems to me that knowing the serial RS-232 commands, the machine could easily be controlled through home automation software and something like a Global Cache iTach.

Does anybody know where we could find a table of the serial commands?