Ok. So, I am a complete amateur when it comes to this stuff. Honestly, I am not even sure this is the right area to be posting this, but a number of the other Threads sounded kinda close to my problem.
Ok, so a buddy of mine has this broken appliance. It's one of those really expensive to replace types.
The thing is, it works just fine. Actually when it works its great, tons of options and settings.
We know what the problem is. Its the control board, ONE component on the board has gone out. I mean its toast, we yried everything, and it just smokes if you plug it in....but just that one component.
So my idea was, to take something like an arduino or Rasp. Pi-W or something and simply replace it. This is because the Board itself is crazy expensive to replace because the company doesn't make it anymore.
The only problem is.....the actual programming of the original board. All the different setting options and such, timers, half dozen sensor inputs......it would be FAR easier if we could just download the Data and basically make a clone of it.
Is this possible? Is it worth the time? Or are we best just tracking down the ezpensive replacement?
Thanks for your time, hope this is the right place.
Ok, so a buddy of mine has this broken appliance. It's one of those really expensive to replace types.
The thing is, it works just fine. Actually when it works its great, tons of options and settings.
We know what the problem is. Its the control board, ONE component on the board has gone out. I mean its toast, we yried everything, and it just smokes if you plug it in....but just that one component.
So my idea was, to take something like an arduino or Rasp. Pi-W or something and simply replace it. This is because the Board itself is crazy expensive to replace because the company doesn't make it anymore.
The only problem is.....the actual programming of the original board. All the different setting options and such, timers, half dozen sensor inputs......it would be FAR easier if we could just download the Data and basically make a clone of it.
Is this possible? Is it worth the time? Or are we best just tracking down the ezpensive replacement?
Thanks for your time, hope this is the right place.