Build your own from parts
You can build your own MortiSafe from parts.
Before you start
You will need to buy these parts.
You'll need the following tools:
- A flat bladed screwdriver, with a head less than 3.5mm (about 1/8 inch) across
- A screwdriver suitable for unscrewing the panel on the back of the safe's door (mine uses a cross-head screwdriver)
- Something to cut wire (eg scissors)
- Something to clean the insulation off the end of a wire
How to build, quick summary
There may look like a lot of steps to building the MortiSafe but that's only because it's in a lot of detail. The basic steps to it are:
- Cut the cable of your power adaptor and connect it to the MortiRemote
- Cut a wire in your digital safe and connect it to the MortiRemote
- Plug the MortiThingy into your PC
- Download some software
- Use it
How to build, detailed instructions
Follow these links to build your MortiSafe:
- Familiarising yourself with your digital safe
- Checking the MortiReceiver wiring
- Configuring the MortiThingy
- Powering and testing the MortiReceiver
- Wiring the digital safe
Uninstalling the MortiSafe
If you should want to, you can very easily turn the MortiSafe back into a normal digital safe just by unscrewing some wires:
- Open the safe, and unscrew the panel on the back of the door
- Identify the screw terminal block which has two wires going to the MortiReceiver and two going to the safe
- Unscrew the wires going to the MortiReceiver
- Unscrew one of the wires going to the safe
- Screw that wire back in so that both of the wires going to the safe are connected together
The safe is now restored to normal.