skemp45
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I did. He accepted about an hour later. I paid within 30 mins and had a tracking number same day.
Do you guys have a link for these?
I did. He accepted about an hour later. I paid within 30 mins and had a tracking number same day.
Beautiful. Added to my mental brewery roadmap.
Any thought to hosting your project on GitHub (read the previous GitHub discussion) to foster collaboration? I would endeavor to help where I have the skills. I agree that storing it in a Debian repository would simplify maintenance for hacks like me, but GitHub (and google code and a bunch of similar resources) is great to get your cheerleaders--like me--in the game. And to separate the yelllers from the workers.
Glorious project. First need to build the keezer…
Do you guys have a link for these?
These are the ones I found - pretty sure the same as the others...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/swiss-flow-...32ca9cfe&quantity=1&autorefresh=true#payCntId
Thank you
I do not plan to make the main branch editable on Github. The avg user here just doesn't have the skills necessary to makes changes. Maybe to a select few who cut their teeth on branches and prove their mettle.
I like this idea. I have four taps too but still would be a neat idea. Could this work on a windows computer? I have an old Asus eee top that is never in use and I could put it right on the keezer.
These are the ones I found - pretty sure the same as the others...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/swiss-flow-...32ca9cfe&quantity=1&autorefresh=true#payCntId
Just bought some flow meters. I'm willing to help out in any way I can. I'm a professional software engineer by trade
Just bought the flow meters. I'll be your lowest common denominator in terms of computer skills.
I think Thadius might be in cahoots with the flowmeter guy on eBay. Hahaha.
IMPORTANT QUESTION.....
How in the hell do you get that many beers in that freezer??
What about including a section for what's fermenting or "on deck"? I'm sure most folks don't have quite as many brews on tap as you.
I believe Thaddius is going to run this from a RaspberryPi running Linux. The shortest route to running it on a box that isn't an RPi would be to run Debian Linux (Ubuntu server might be a good place to start) on your machine and look at how you would get the flow monitors to talk to that machine. It is doable without question. Like all DIY projects here, the question is not if, but how hard.
If you don't care about real time keg status (I.e. You are willing to manually update the volume of each keg) then you should be able to host it on your machine much more easily. The most challenging part of the port to another machine, I think, will be the flow monitor interface.
Looks awesome. Can this Raspberry Pi solution also be used for general web browsing in addition to the tap list display?
I have none of the skills required to set this up. But, I'd love to have a digital list like this on my soon to be wet bar in my basement. I would only need the digital list, and not the level indicator. What would a cost be to set this up and ship it for you? All I'd like to need to do is buy the display and plug it in, then update the list as needed
Thanks!
I have none of the skills required to set this up. But, I'd love to have a digital list like this on my soon to be wet bar in my basement. I would only need the digital list, and not the level indicator. What would a cost be to set this up and ship it for you? All I'd like to need to do is buy the display and plug it in, then update the list as needed
Thanks!
Me too!
This looks awesome. I am a web developer so if you need any help let me know.
One thing i was thinking is that you could probably use css masks and different background colors instead of creating 100s of images for each section. I started working on a proof of concept, but then realized i should get back to my real work. If you are interested I will continue later, but since you already made all of those images, maybe you aren't. Doing it this way would allow the colors to be editable just like the number columns and what data is to be shown.
The hops could also be just a 5 images: empty, 1/4, 1/2, 3/4 and full. and you can just have them positioned in the div. Actually now that I'm thinking about it more, you just need a full and empty. if you have two divs stacked, the top would have the background image of the empty and the bottom would be the full. Then you can just adjust the heights to be the percent you want it to be full. It would be even more granular than just the 1/4 increments.
Ping me if you want to talk about it more. I wouldn't mind helping out at all since i plan on building this eventually.
Very cool stuff, you could also use this technique to change the color of the image.
Love it... Def want to do it.
On the design front... Would there be a way to change the keg level display color to match the color of the Ctual beer in the keg (I.e. pull the color from the SRM colum and use it in the keg level too)?
Very generous of you to do this for the community!
So, the Raspberry Pi Model B, SD Card, and Raspbian OS (or whatever for us non-computer geeks) is needed. I see your setup...like the way it sits up behind and all you have is the power cable.
However, now that there are flowmeters involved, how is this gonna work? How long are the flowmeter cables? Now, should the HDMI cable be longer than 3'?
My guess is that we should mount the Raspberry Pi to the back of the keezer and put a long, HDMI/DVI cable out from it. I plan on mounting my monitor to one of those desktop swivel mounts. I'm not sure if my monitor is 1080P. It is an old Sceptre X7G Agama that had "PivotScreen" (rotation) capabilities. But it is 17" and FREE. Haha. I like free.
Diggin' all of this though, Thadius. You da man! :fro:
What's your front end? Could you use twitter bootstrap or foundation?
I'm interested in this as well! Nice work so far! Is this on github yet?
Thad you have a a great talent dude!
Why do I have a feeling that I'll end up trying to build one of these and then realize that 3 taps just isn't enough and end up building a 10 tap kegerator just to have more stuff to display? Too cool!
Have you done any research on how to hook up the flow meters to the raspberry pi? I think that will be the hardest part of the build.
I'm only going to have 4 beers for now. Yes, my monitor is 1280x1024. I'm sure there will be some "letter box" effect somehow, but if I can make it work, till I can get a new monitor (already spent a ton on keezer and brewing setup in the last 3 months or so), that would be ideal.
You said I'd be giving up a lot to make it work, though. What exactly does that mean? Also, since I AM only using 4 beers for now...(and I'm sure most of us out here only have 2 to 4 taps), maybe there might be an option (if not hard) to put the other brews (not on tap) as "primary" or "secondary" fermenter? Just a thought.
Also, I have plenty of SD card readers and only mentioned the HDMI cable length due to putting the Raspberry Pi on the back of the keezer since somehow we are going to have to attach those flowmeter cables...which from what I read are only 15 cm. I just now found out we could have specified longer lengths. DOH! Haha.
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