How to convert the smarter ikettle 3.0 to work with ESP home (Electronics knowledge required)

[Ben_Terry]

Thank you for sharing this. It helped me with my own iKettle 3.0 / ESP Home conversion.

If you’re interested, I’ve produced the write-up here:

iKettle 3.0 ESP32 Conversion

The Smarter.am cloud service is (for all intents and purposes) dead. AFAIK, all Smarter products are therefore no longer ‘smart’. Long live ESPHome! With help from the information in this guide, I’ve successfully converted my Smarter iKettle 3.0 to ESP32/ESPHome. My project is a bit more ambitious. I’ve completely replaced the logic board within the iKettle 3.0, and have attempted to replicate all of its functions (with one exception), including: No change to appearance/no additional wires Re…

I went off the deep end, completely replacing the logic board with my own. I’ve attempted to mitigate risks as follows:

• Setting a 2 minute time limit (i.e. the kettle element cannot be turned on for more than 2 minutes)
• Preventing the relay from turning on if the kettle is not on the base

I’ll look to add additional measures, e.g. rolling boil detection in the next firmware.