Help please! I've got a Tilt that is in a current fermentation, using a Tilt Pi to send data. I know the Tilt is working correctly because it's currently logging to my Google Drive (Tilt PI Spreadsheet by Noah Baron). It has logged directly to Brewer's Friend multiple times in the past. Something changed, but can't seem to figure out what. I've powered the Tilt Pi down/up multiple times. I know the programming of it hasn't been changed and the internet portion connects (as proven by it logging to Google Drive).
Tilt not connecting to Brewer's Friend
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We can get this working. Are you using a device via bluetooth or something like a raspberry pi? And can you confirm you did each of these steps: https://docs.brewersfriend.com/devices/tilt
If you’ve done each step in order, do you get an error or something else?
Yooper,
This is a TiltPI unit I have been running since early 2022 (logging to Brewers Friend). It is currently logging to a Google Spreadsheet that I can see actively recording data. Because of my network setup, I'm not able to connect wirelessly to the unit and I've had to order the micro adapters so I can connect a monitor and keyboard (I don't know what I did with the adapters that came with the unit originally). I should have those tomorrow and hopefully can get connected directly.
I just wanted to update you, so you didn't think I was ignoring you.
Thanks
This is a TiltPI unit I have been running since early 2022 (logging to Brewers Friend). It is currently logging to a Google Spreadsheet that I can see actively recording data. Because of my network setup, I'm not able to connect wirelessly to the unit and I've had to order the micro adapters so I can connect a monitor and keyboard (I don't know what I did with the adapters that came with the unit originally). I should have those tomorrow and hopefully can get connected directly.
I just wanted to update you, so you didn't think I was ignoring you.
Thanks
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Yooper,
I was able to get connected to my TiltPI UI. I did see that the default cloud address was set to google.com. I updated it with the proper Brewers Friend address (by copying the URL from the Profile/Integrations page). I'm not seeing any error messages and it tells me its waiting for the next reading time period (set for 15 minutes). But I'm still not seeing the data come into my brew sessions (fermentation chart). I logged into the actual Rasberry PI unit and watched it boot up and everything came back saying OK on boot up.
What are my next recommended steps?
I was able to get connected to my TiltPI UI. I did see that the default cloud address was set to google.com. I updated it with the proper Brewers Friend address (by copying the URL from the Profile/Integrations page). I'm not seeing any error messages and it tells me its waiting for the next reading time period (set for 15 minutes). But I'm still not seeing the data come into my brew sessions (fermentation chart). I logged into the actual Rasberry PI unit and watched it boot up and everything came back saying OK on boot up.
What are my next recommended steps?
I apologize for the delay getting back to you. It required some time to dig into this, and the short answer is that it IS working. But, now for the rest of the story.
Nothing is wrong on our end, and correcting that cloud address in the Tilt Pi fixed it: we've been receiving a reading from your RED Tilt every 15 minutes since Aug 21, without a single failure, right up to now.
The reason you can't see it: those readings are going into a "NORTHY 12 BELGIAN QUAD" brew session, and you’re looking at "Northern Brewer Vanilla Porter". The Porter session has a BLUE Tilt linked to it and has never received a reading, because your Tilt Pi isn't detecting that BLUE Tilt at all (it only ever sends one Tilt's data, not two). That's a battery or Bluetooth range issue on the BLUE Tilt, not a Brewers Friend problem.
So: go to the Belgian Quad session for the data, and check the BLUE Tilt's battery and whether it actually shows up in the Tilt Pi's device list.
I did see the data going into the Northy 12 Belgian Quad, but I'm not seeing any data going into the NB Vanilla Porter. Looking at the UI, I see both the Blue and Red tilt supplying readings. Before setting the default cloud address has stopped the Blue from logging data to the Google Spreadsheet, where it was logging data previously. I can't seem to get it to log either place now. Both ferementers are located in the same cooling chamber (side by side) and the Tilt Pi is located on top of the chamber.I've tried disconnecting the Blue and reconnecting it, but no luck. So, I'm 1/2 there.
Your Pi is clearly seeing BLUE, but it's only sending us RED, one reading every 15 minutes. Nothing from BLUE has ever hit our servers, which lines up with it going quiet on your Google Sheet too.
In Tilt Pi each Tilt has its own tile with its own cloud URL, so fixing RED wouldn't have touched BLUE. Open BLUE's tile, paste in the same Brewers Friend URL from Profile > Integrations (same one for both, we tell them apart by color), make sure logging is on at 15 minutes, and save.
BLUE is already linked to your Vanilla Porter session here, so it should show up within a reading cycle. If not, let us know and we'll take another look.
In Tilt Pi each Tilt has its own tile with its own cloud URL, so fixing RED wouldn't have touched BLUE. Open BLUE's tile, paste in the same Brewers Friend URL from Profile > Integrations (same one for both, we tell them apart by color), make sure logging is on at 15 minutes, and save.
BLUE is already linked to your Vanilla Porter session here, so it should show up within a reading cycle. If not, let us know and we'll take another look.
Thanks - I recopied the Cloud URL into the Blue Tilt and I see they are both recording now. It is very strange that they both lost their cloud URL after using them for so long without any issues. Just glad its all working now so I can keep track of them.
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I can confirm something has changed at the BrewesFriend side. I have had my Tilt pi online for several years, with 2 Tilt devices both reporting into BrewersFriend.
Since mid August, I see that the update interval at BF has changed from 15 mins. I noticed at the bottom of my fermentation graph that the 'Last updated' time is no longer at 15 min intervals, but 30 or 60 mins. I've done some API post digging and i get this response from BF:
Since mid August, I see that the update interval at BF has changed from 15 mins. I noticed at the bottom of my fermentation graph that the 'Last updated' time is no longer at 15 min intervals, but 30 or 60 mins. I've done some API post digging and i get this response from BF:
I’m sure this was resolved, but just in case it wasn’t you I was working with over the weekend, please let me know.
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I have experienced some definite roughness when using two different color Tilts on the same TiltPi listener. The bluetooth works fine as the units both display on the pi status webpage. There's something that comes from doing two different color submissions into brewersfriend that seems to take quite a bit of time to work out. It eventually worked and we were never really sure why.
The last time we experienced this was back in April. I almost wonder if we got caught up in that post-rate limit back then.
We'll be firing up a single unit in a couple of days so hopefully no detours.
The last time we experienced this was back in April. I almost wonder if we got caught up in that post-rate limit back then.
We'll be firing up a single unit in a couple of days so hopefully no detours.
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