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I just purchased a tilt Hydrometer. Does anyone use this or have any advice?
it was a great indicator of fermentation activity and when FG was reached.
To connect your tilt to brewstat.us.
First create a device on the site and copy the url they give you into the cloud logging url in the settings in the tilt app.
Then create a recipe on the site and tie that recipe to your device
Awesome. I'll try these out and see what I can get to work.
Just to clarify, you need the beerXML file in order to chart the fermentation activity, correct?
One more question on this. Do you need to have the screen of whatever device is logging data with the tilt stay on? Or will it continue logging data if the screen goes to sleep?
Ok. Still trying to work this thing out. I have an old phone set up in the ferm chamber with the tilt app open and the phone screen is set up stay on. I keep looking at brewstat.us every day on my phone and it only recorded 1 point about 18 hours ago. How often does the tilt record points to brewstat?
I used my Samsung tablet running the Tilt app on my first brew with it but then bought a Raspberry Pi Zero W for ~$30 and loaded the Tiltpi image on it. It is cofigured through a web app so that I don't have a monitor even connected to it. I use the google sheet logging option so I can see logging output anywhere. Easy peasy and it works great.One more question on this. Do you need to have the screen of whatever device is logging data with the tilt stay on? Or will it continue logging data if the screen goes to sleep?
I'm a certified data geek, love looking at charts 'n' tables and stuff.Used mine for the first time on Saturday to check in on the gose I brewed. Have an old cell phone logging data and uploading to Google Sheets. Pretty cool device.
I'm a certified data geek, love looking at charts 'n' tables and stuff.
Did that go from 1.044 or so to 1.018 in two days?? And the temperature is cycling up and down like clockwork, what is that?
Damn that sucks. How'd the carboy break?Yep, it sure did drop like that in SG. Incidentally, I broke the carboy (in 12 freaking years of brewing, never broke one before) last night which left a nice hole in the top. Crazy break really!
Anyway, since it ruined the batch and had never done a gose before, I took a sample and a taste. Sample was at 65F and read right at 1.018, which shows the Tilt was right on target. It was sad to dump the beer, it was pretty tasty honestly, but that glass from the outside was now on the inside and I didn't want to take a chance contaminating the beer with something nasty that was lurking on the outside of the carboy. I ALMOST grabbed a keg and said screw it but decided against it.
The temp cycling up and down is from the fermentation chamber. It's set to 65 and it kicks on when it hits 66 and off at 64. I have a temp probe in a thermowell in the brew controlling the fermentation chamber. The Tilt just saves the data for me.
Those are some oddly consistent temperature fluctuations between 64 and 66 degrees.Used mine for the first time on Saturday to check in on the gose I brewed. Have an old cell phone logging data and uploading to Google Sheets. Pretty cool device.
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Those are some oddly consistent temperature fluctuations between 64 and 66 degrees.
Damn that sucks. How'd the carboy break?
Is the data stored on the Tilt device itself at all?
If a person wasn't interested in uploading the data to the cloud, could they just access the data intermittently by launching the Tilt app on a smart device when they wanted to, and have the full range of data upload from the tilt to the app?
Or is the data ONLY stored in the cloud, and doing what I've described would mean all you could see was the temperature and gravity at that one point in time?
You can use a raspberry pi--I bought a Zero W kit for ~$30 on amazon--and install the TiltPi image on it to connect to the Tilt. You only have to edit one setup file on the RPi's SD card so it will connect to your WIFI and then as soon as it detects a Tilt bluetooth signal you can set up logging through it's web interface. You can store log data on the RPi and also set up cloud based logging. I'm doing both right now.Is the data stored on the Tilt device itself at all?
If a person wasn't interested in uploading the data to the cloud, could they just access the data intermittently by launching the Tilt app on a smart device when they wanted to, and have the full range of data upload from the tilt to the app?
Or is the data ONLY stored in the cloud, and doing what I've described would mean all you could see was the temperature and gravity at that one point in time?
I found his to be very true. The water calculator on Brewfather is something worth checking out too.Brewfather.app I hope this app is finally the Beersmith-killer I think it is. So completely fed up dealing with the ancient file & folder interface on Beersmith and came across this project the other day via Hoprod Garage on Instagram. I already love this app's recipe features and the fact that I can use it on any device is a big upside over Beersmith 3's locking you into two devices and paying extra for the app. That's all great but what's next level about it is they have BrewPiLess and Tilt support built in already. So, regardless of how you want to log - WiFi or Bluetooth on your phone - this app pulls it all into to your session data. Very comprehensive app walkthrough/review on YouTube.
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