New Fermentation software

[Ozarks Mountain Brewery]

what do you think, this was made possible by our new developer Andrew and its live now, you can also visit the fermenting link at the bottom of my posts and it will lead you to my fermentation chamber

http://grafana.ozarksmountainbrew.com/d/LREYBN7mz/brewing-session?refresh=10s&orgId=1

 

[I_playdrums]

The temperature chart looks like the inverse of my 401K.

 

[Ozarks Mountain Brewery]

thats funny, I start most beers at 62 and finish at 72, whats neat is the crazy air temp compared to the wort

 

[Nosybear]

It's a cool dashboard.... Where's the data coming from?

 

[jeffpn]

It's a cool dashboard.... Where's the data coming from?

Agree and same question!

 

[Ozarks Mountain Brewery]

this was a huge learning curve for me, I've dabbled with the arduino for years but never went to this extent, I have an arduino yun and its hooked to two temp probes, the sketch sends the data to a database and the website reads it in real time, its a newer technology that's also being used for home automation stuff for geeks like me

 

[Ozarks Mountain Brewery]

trying to raise the temp to 70F now, thats why its a big difference

 

[Ozarks Mountain Brewery]

so this is just in what I call a test set up, ugly I know, I like the saying function before form, Ill eventually make it pretty

 

[Ozarks Mountain Brewery]

whats really neat is I can control the fermentation chamber with another web script using the same arduino

 

[GFHomebrew]

i met a brewer recently that uses Arduino for his fermentation chamber i recently looked into it but yeah over my head. looks cool Oz.

its amazing what people do with arduino check it out on youtube all sorts of smarts

 

[N0mad]

I picked up this old Kenmore All Fridge last week in Austin... the Ink-Bird came in yesterday... it easily holds 2 three gallon carboys... I only do 10 liter batches right now...

 

[Hawkbox]

Sweet.

 

[Hogarthe]

The temperature chart looks like the inverse of my 401K.

Id be happy with either for my 401k....

 

[Ozarks Mountain Brewery]

just switched over to a esp8266 board, the difference is its only $8 vs $70 for the yun and it works fine for monitoring, Ill leave the yun for controlling

http://grafana.ozarksmountainbrew.c...ession?refresh=10s&orgId=1&from=now-1h&to=now

 

[Hawkbox]

Cool, maybe someday for me. I do have the equipment, I just hate programming anything. Plus I brew to get away from IT so putting it in my brewing might not be fun.

 

[Ozarks Mountain Brewery]

now this is interesting, I've been testing some different temp probe placements and for years I just put my probe under the barrel to regulate the temperature

 

[N0mad]

Interesting taped to the side and in the wort produce the same result... does that mean a thermowell may not be necessary?

 

[Ozarks Mountain Brewery]

its a possibility the issue would be how much insulation to prevent air from altering the probe temp, I have it with 4 layers of foil bubble right now

 

[jeffpn]

Seems reasonable to me. If it’s taped very tightly to the fermenter, and well insulated beyond that, the inside and side temps should be the same. There’s probably an air gap on the bottom of the fermenter throwing that reading off. Of course, the wort may have different temperatures within itself as well.

 

[N0mad]

I've been using a big blob of plumbers putty to stick the temp prob on...