I was wondering if anyone has managed to extend the Switchbot hub mini to be able to control devices inside a cabinet?
I’m figuring that it should be easy enough to simply solder an extension cable and drill a hole in the case if I can find the right point, but struggling to find any details of the board, and don’t want to rip it open if someone else has already tried and failed!
Thanks
It likely has multiple IR-LEDs pointed in different directions. Just pick one, desolder it and add a wire.
Not hub mini, but expect to find similar setup:
I have not done it on a switch it, but a ESP 8285 device, the one where the ESP board is at a 90 degree angle.
I just desoldered and remembered the polarity added about 0.5 m of cable and it works fine.
Thanks guys -opened it up and took some pictures of the board - I am assuming that the two square pads between the black dashes are nice pads I can solder to for the IR cable - anyone think otherwise?!
And can anyone advise how I identify a +/- on an IR cable that I’m going to cut?
Edit - suppose the other option is to source a jack that takes the 2.5 IR connector
Can’t see the circuit well from the photos… Make sure you solder in the point that goes through those big resistors, otherwise you don’t have anything limiting the current draw of new LED.
What is that?
IR cable?
I had no idea those existed, I just used a normal cable.
I soldered the wire on and held the IR diode on the other end and tested which way was correct.
Then I soldered wrong anyways and had to redo it.
Fun learning experience I recommend you try
Hmm, optical fiber could be used here… 
I wouldn’t use that. There could be other components in the housing.
Why not just desolder the one you have on the board and extend it with a cable?
If you need two, then how do you know there is enough power in the board to make both work?
Fair question… I hadn’t really got that far, but given you can buy splitters that allow 3 or 4 IR extenders out of a single port of the above cable, and they work fine (currently using one with my FireTV Cube since the one they supplied was flakey!) I kinda just figured they would (probably falsely)
It would be easier and safer to desolder one of those LEDs from you board and use it with wire extension. You can be sure it works, you know polarity and you don’t draw extra current from the circuit.
