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Are you getting a tilt output? The gyro may be faulty...I have; the ispindle is communicating with Fermentrack, just not tracking gravity
Are you getting a tilt output? The gyro may be faulty...I have; the ispindle is communicating with Fermentrack, just not tracking gravity
Fermentrack for me, but mainly 'cos I had a Pi lying around and seemed like a good idea at the time. If I didn't have a spare Pi, I would have gone Brewpiless to start with.
Yes, you have to calibrate if you want to get realistic SG readings. As an experiment I put in constants that someone else published, yes I got wild SG readings but I could see that the SG was changing so I could see when it had stopped fermenting.
I've run the calibration cycle twice for one of my iSpindels, one with the standard sugar solution, the other I left the iSpindel in the bucket and took regular readings with my hydrometer, the second method seems to give me more consistent readings of SG.
You may have seen this thread but becoming fairly mature now, especially linked in with ispindel alternative firmware.If anyone is interested, I wrote a simple relay/dashboard for the iSpindel. GitHub - agentgonzo/ispindel-relay: A relay for the iSpindel floating hydrometer that can show information and forward the data to multiple services
If you know your way around computers, then it acts a as a simple relay/forwarder to both display information, and also to forward the data on to multiple different services. I wanted this because I use the grainfather app, but it's lacking a bit in its fermentation tracking, so I also wanted a local readout of the data (and display it in influx/grafana).
If you don't understand any of that, or don't know your way around computers, it's probably best to ignore it
I have managed to connect mine, but can only read the temperature. After many hours of brainwork , I still can't get the gravity to show on the graphThanks for your message
I have not been able to make it communicate with Brew Father. Must try it again
Any there any generic digits to input that will at least get it to function? Even if the reading is incorrect, at least I would be able to track the fermentation. At the moment it's not even registering
From the grainfather setup instructions:Thanks, I'll put some time aside this week to provide these details.
When I set mine up, I generated two formulae, one in SG, one in Plato.NOTE: Please make sure your iSpindel reports gravity in Plato; we will handle converting this to SG for you. If you have already updated your polynomial formula to report in SG, then append
,SG
to the 'name' field (SG needs to be in capitals) and this will be handled appropriately on our end.
I do this stuff for a living, and it still took me 2 attempts to get it working with the grainfather app!many thanks for the extensive information .. verging on rocket science .. .. I'll give it a good go. Cheers, Paul
Have to admit it's tricky as no one really explains the why it must be done this way just the how to do it.I do this stuff for a living, and it still took me 2 attempts to get it working with the grainfather app!
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