I'll see myself out now.
...it totally was not doing that before
I'll see myself out now.
...it totally was not doing that before
What weird timing. I am setting mine up for glycol too. You can see my latest test.Success! After reading this and other threads upside and down I was able to get Fuscus running on two instances. I'm in the testing phase now with water heating and cooling. It's not so simple, as the fuscus instructions on GitHub appear to be pre-Fermentrack and threw me off track. I have 3 SS Brewtech Fermenters (so I need to add a 3rd instance) with heat wraps and glycol coming from a chiller. I use Tilt hydrometers to monitor fermentation. I have had two SSBT power supplies die and now I'm able to move heat and cool over to the Raspberry Pi (3B+ with Stretch) and bypass the SSBT controls, which are manual for temperature settings. I did write a rudimentary python program to control temperatures on them from the RPI, but there was no integration with the fermentation. Thanks to AME and Thorrak I can now monitor and control my fermentations with one system from anywhere in the world.
I’ve played around with a lot of things to make this work... and it appears to be working though I’m still testing. I changed the sensor in the thermowell to be the fridge sensor and that helped on the cooling side. When I tested heating I had the thermowell as the beer sensor so I should have that tested when I get home later this week. One odd thing I noticed is that fuscus appears to use the physical RPI pin number instead of the GPIO number. I had to play around to figure that out. I haven’t put a sensor in the reservoir yet and won’t if I don’t need to. I leave it on 24F as it also chills my draft serving lines. Let’s leave the conversation here so as to help others that won’t have to struggle through this process.What weird timing. I am setting mine up for glycol too. You can see my latest test.
How do you have your sensors set up. How is your data looking in comparison to mine? How are you managing your reservoir? Maybe we take this offline to a conversation but we will see..
Per Thorrak's guidance I have the thermowell as the fridge sensor as well. You can see my test a few pages back when I had the thermowell as the beer sensor. Considering this test that I just posted didn't have any calls for heats, I am considering a third test today. I will either cool the fermenter off first or use a temp a few degrees above ambient...thinking the latter makes sense.I changed the sensor in the thermowell to be the fridge sensor and that helped on the cooling side. When I tested heating I had the thermowell as the beer sensor so I should have that tested when I get home later this week.
Yes, with the thermowell sensor set as the fridge sensor I was able to run a cool and heat cycle. Next up is testing a beer integrated with the Tilts. One feature I'd like to see is basing the fermentation profile on SG instead of time, or with time as set point triggers.Per Thorrak's guidance I have the thermowell as the fridge sensor as well. You can see my test a few pages back when I had the thermowell as the beer sensor. Considering this test that I just posted didn't have any calls for heats, I am considering a third test today. I will either cool the fermenter off first or use a temp a few degrees above ambient...thinking the latter makes sense.
I am also going to take a look at the code to see if I can't hack something together for better glycol support. I spoke with Thorrak about this too and he gave me some pointers. It is rather intimidating to jump in so we will see if I actually accomplish anything.
EDIT:
Here are the results of the latest test. I cycled the fridge constant value in the upper 70's (above room temp) to force heating. I know my heating pads struggle and now I have the data to visualize it. Again, the glycol reservoir was held at about 57deg thus the quick cooling sections.
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This is coming (slowly): use gravity as setpoint in ferm profile · Issue #287 · thorrak/fermentrackYes, with the thermowell sensor set as the fridge sensor I was able to run a cool and heat cycle. Next up is testing a beer integrated with the Tilts. One feature I'd like to see is basing the fermentation profile on SG instead of time, or with time as set point triggers.
Are you able to SSH into the host? I'm not sure what the exact path is but I'm sure you can secure copy logs off of the host.Hi guys,
After trying to update my fermentrack it stopped working (I am getting 504 gateway time-out). If I reinstall it through terminal will I lose my data? Is there any way to backup my data without access to the fermentrack GUI?
Are you able to SSH into the host? I'm not sure what the exact path is but I'm sure you can secure copy logs off of the host.
I'll let someone else answer about reinstalling and further details
The questions are:
---> can I get it running on 1 ESP board in any way? (mods? other fermenter firmware?)
The setup & some observations (look at the pic):
* 2 chamber fridge with freezer at the bottom and fridge at top. You cant control them separately.
* bottom chamber (Zone 2) is all fine as it gets the proper cooling work.
* to use upper chamber (Zone 1) I made some holes in the separator floor + added a 12v DC fan for forced air circulation.
* for obvious reasons bottom chamber gets 20* cooler than top, so for zone 1 controller I have DC fan circulating the air as cooler.
- it works reasonably well. I might make the holes bigger
---> any other ideas how to optimise the setup?
---> can Fermentrack add any Bubble logger in any way? (I run custom code, and it is another ESP8266)
- sometimes the top confuses the bottom to run more frequently than needed It would benefit from an option to have a larger temperature variation before cooling cycle kicks in.
http://docs.fermentrack.com/en/master/hardware.htmlI've have Fermentrack running for over a year hooked up to my Tilt. I get very nice graphs but I've always used an external STC-1000 temp controller. I want to switch to a Brewpi/Fermentrack-based controller. I bought an Arduino Uno with my Pi at the beginning and would like to use it. I was able to connect the Uno to Fermentrack and flash it successfully.
Where can I look for instructions to interface the Arduino to the outside world?
Thanks. I forgot I have the relay module too. Have to order the temp probes.There's not much to it:
- The three ds18b20 temperature sensors go on A4, draw 5V power and ground from the Uno, and requires a 4.7K pull-up resistor to Uno 5V.
- Cold relay goes on GPIO 5 set to "inverted"
- Heat relay goes on GPIO 6 set to "inverted"
- Most folks use a dual relay module ala Sainsmart or cloney equivalent running on 5V and ground supplied by the Uno.
Cheers!
Port forward port 80 (HTTP) to the fermentrack IP unless you added an SSL cert (in which case, its port 443).Hi, I am setting up a fermentation chamber with fermentrack running on a raspberry pi. I have also setup ddclient with a dynamic dns so I can reach, monitor and change my fermentations while away. My question is, what port to open up in my firewall to be able to communicate with the webserver remotely? Thanks in advance!
PSA: this is not recommended. Fermentrack says software is not designed to be secure enough for the interweb kiddies who have nothing better to do. .
Hey everyone:
I am a little late to the party building this, but using @garzlok great tutorial, I am getting close to a working system.
I have Fermentrack running with two esp8266 on @Thorrak boards. I am also using the temp sensor breakout boards.
My problem is that I can't seem to get any readings from the temp sensors. Nothing shows up on the LCD's. I am getting 5v at the power and ground pins on the breakout board so that seems fine. I tried sensors that I recently bought from Amazon and also a sensor from my craftbeerpi build that I know is working.
Is there something I'm missing to find the temp sensor in the software and assign it? Or should it just show up when I plug it into the board?
Thanks for any help.
Paul
My problem is that I can't seem to get any readings from the temp sensors. Nothing shows up on the LCD's. I am getting 5v at the power and ground pins on the breakout board so that seems fine. I tried sensors that I recently bought from Amazon and also a sensor from my craftbeerpi build that I know is working.
Is there something I'm missing to find the temp sensor in the software and assign it? Or should it just show up when I plug it into the board?
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