The Rig
2022 Jayco North Point 382FLRB
A front-living fifth wheel with five slides, six-point hydraulic auto-leveling, two electric awnings, and an onboard generator with auto-gen-start for dry camping. Stock, it runs on Jayco’s JayCommand / BMPRO system with a wall tablet.
We pull it through the Rockies and out across the West, which means it spends its life swinging between full-hookup parks, state-park campgrounds, and the occasional night of boondocking on generator power.
The basics
| Model | 2022 Jayco North Point 382FLRB |
| Slides | 5 (hydraulic + one Schwintek) |
| Leveling | Lippert 6-point hydraulic auto-level |
| Power | 2× Lion Energy UT1300 lithium |
| Propane | 3× 40 lb steel bottles |
| Connectivity | Starlink Mini |
| Generator | Onboard, with auto-gen-start |
The monitoring system
The factory controls are never going anywhere — they’re the fallback. Everything we’ve added sits on top of them, read-only where it matters and supervised where it counts.
A Raspberry Pi 5 rides in a cabinet behind the Starlink. It taps the trailer’s RV-C bus and talks Bluetooth to the BMPRO node, and from there it watches:
- Propane — three tank-top sensors, level and temperature
- Water — fresh, grey, and black tank levels
- Power — both lithium batteries, state of charge and voltage
- Tires — pressure and temperature at all four corners
- Climate — cabin and fridge temperatures, both A/C zones
- Starlink — throughput, latency, obstruction, even a 3D sky-map of the dish’s view
- Generator — run state and auto-gen-start status
- Position — GPS, logged into a trip history
All of it streams home to a server for long-term history, and the trips you’ll find here are rendered straight from that GPS log.
Upgrades & repairs
A running log of what we’ve changed and what we’ve fixed is on the way — check the Journal for the latest.