Sawaya_brewing
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Thanks Thorrak! I will order it from Amazon and try it out! Worse comes to worse I can just return it, too easy to do with Amazon. I need to buy you a beer or something!
I think there is a post here somewhere that addresses my question but I can't find it...
I built my controller and setup Fermentrack on my home wifi network. Will be moving it to my brother's house where we actually brew/ferment. I'm pretty sure I'll have no issues connecting Fermentrack to his wifi but I recall that getting the ESP8266 controller connected may be an issue. Any help, tips or suggestions appreciated.
Thanks!
Hi Thorrak, I flashed the M5 stack and it seems to be working. I am able to view my tilt in the Fermentrack dashboard. The only thing that isn't working is the M5 stack screen. It is just blank and not displaying any information. Any ideas why it is not displaying any of the information on the M5 stack itself?Short answer: Maybe!
Long answer: If the schematic on this page is correct, it looks like the M5 stack and D32 Pro have the same chipset & pinouts for the TFT screen. You don't have a touch screen so the "wifi reset" functionality won't work, but I could always add support for one of the M5's buttons. If you are willing to take a risk with the M5 and the screen/bluetooth work, let me know and I'll add it to the documentation!
That’s.. weird? I assume you used the TFT beta firmware?Hi Thorrak, I flashed the M5 stack and it seems to be working. I am able to view my tilt in the Fermentrack dashboard. The only thing that isn't working is the M5 stack screen. It is just blank and not displaying any information. Any ideas why it is not displaying any of the information on the M5 stack itself?
Thanks!
Oops, I didn't flash it with the TFT beta, is it safe to flash it again with that one?That’s.. weird? I assume you used the TFT beta firmware?
Oops, I didn't flash it with the TFT beta, is it safe to flash it again with that one?
Man, looks like I really screwed up. I didn't have the sd card in the m5 when I tried to flash it again. Then my whole fermentrack went down. I am now reinstalling fermentrack but I seem to be stuck on
Running setup.py install for pyzmq: still running
and it is hung up on that, and keeps saying the same thing.
Is there a way to fix this and install fermentrack correctly?
Thanks!
You are right about patience, I am just being anxious. So I got it to install the fermentrack on the pi3 again. Got it all setup and went to flash the M5 again with the TFT beta and it gave an error again, and said there is not enough space. It gave a number saying there is not enough space. I didn't unplug my Pi or anything during the flash. Then the Fermentrack says cannot display lcd text for my arduino.
Okay, thanks Thorrak!Ok. Give me a few. That means the M5 has less than 16MB of flash. Annoying, but a surmountable obstacle thanks to the new Bluetooth stack.
Okay, thanks Thorrak!
Reinstalling Fermentrack now on the Pi.
Awesome, thanks! I will test it and report back.I just updated the "beta" TFT firmware to now flash onto smaller devices again. When you flash it, let me know if it works!
Still gave the same error.Awesome, thanks! I will test it and report back.
Okay, will try it again. Thanks!@Sawaya_brewing sorry about that - refresh the firmware list and try again. I updated the firmware, but forgot to tell it to flash the SPIFFS bit to the (new) right place in memory.
Good news is that is successfully flashed! But now I cannot see it in my wifi list when I try to go set it up to connect to my network. The screen did turn on though, the text on it was mirrored. I had to hold it up to the mirror to read it lol!
I'm late to the update party.
When trying to update using the command line I get a command not found?
Running Version 9 Strech
curl -L "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thorrak/fermentrack-tools/master/fix-environment.sh" | sudo bash
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 7972 100 7972 0 0 17362 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 17368
::: Verifying free disk space...
::: Checking for Internet connection:
::: Internet connection Success!
::: Reinstalling dependencies using apt-get
::: apt is updated - Triggering install of all packages.
main: line 42: warn: command not found
There are two issues here --
The first issue (and more important one) is that one of the four "apt-get" commands didn't succeed for some reason. If you log into your Pi via SSH and run the following four commands, one will (potentially) fail:
sudo apt-get install -y git-core build-essential nginx redis-server avrdude
sudo apt-get install -y bluez libcap2-bin libbluetooth3 libbluetooth-dev
sudo apt-get install -y python3-venv python3-dev
sudo apt-get install -y python3-scipy python3-numpy
If they all succeed, then you're good to go - re-run the fix-environment script and you should be fine.
The second issue is that I didn't rename the "warn" command which gets called when one of those lines fails. That has now been corrected in the fix-environment script.
Well, was worth a shot, I moved on to just a basic cheap ttgo esp32 just so I can setup TiltBridge. Glad to have my Tilt logging back in my Fermentrack dialog! Thanks for all of your hard work Thorrak!The reason that you don't see the WiFi network pop up is that it saved your WiFi connection settings and is already connected to your network. (Hence the IP address in your photo )
I just built a custom M5 stack version of the firmware which might fix that. If you refresh your firmware list from Fermentrack.com, you should see a new variant of the TiltBridge Beta firmware called "M5 Stack". Flash that, and let me know how your screen looks.
Admittedly, this is going to be trial and error to get the rotation correct since i don't have one of these at the moment.
NoForgive me if the answer is here and I'm just missing it, but will this or any version of Brewpi or Fermatrack work with a Feather and Ethernet shield?
Setting up Fermentrack for a fellow brewer. Fresh install of Fermentrack on a pi3, today. I have tried to flash 3 different esp8266 and an esp32. Fermentrack will not recognize any of the devices in auto detection, so I can flash them. I have never had this issue before. Is there a software issue with the current update?
I ordered from PCBS.io in early December, and it never left the fabrication stage. They wouldn't respond to anything that I sent them, and I had to open a dispute through paypal and wait again. I got refunded through paypal finally. I made my own board on some permanent prototype board, I don't intend to order anything from them again.Has anyone experienced issues with PCBs.io? I placed an order for Thorrak's boards in early April and it is still in the fabrication stage. I ordered the PCB components through Mouser and I'm just waiting for the boards to show up. I also can't find any customer service email nor will they respond on Twitter.
Second, I am looking for a different temperature probe than the standard three-wire one as that one is too large to fit in the thermowell of my fermenter. I did purchase a random one off of amazon but I have no idea if it will work or not. I would love any suggestions that you might have. As of right now, I use an inkbird and that probe diameter fits in the thermowell fine.
Here is the sensor I bought
Thanks!
Has anyone experienced issues with PCBs.io? I placed an order for Thorrak's boards in early April and it is still in the fabrication stage. I ordered the PCB components through Mouser and I'm just waiting for the boards to show up. I also can't find any customer service email nor will they respond on Twitter.
Second, I am looking for a different temperature probe than the standard three-wire one as that one is too large to fit in the thermowell of my fermenter. I did purchase a random one off of amazon but I have no idea if it will work or not. I would love any suggestions that you might have. As of right now, I use an inkbird and that probe diameter fits in the thermowell fine.
Here is the sensor I bought
Thanks!
Beer constant mode. Beer is 66.2 and the set temp. is 66.0. Not sure what the offset is but I bet it's higher than .2 degreesShouldn't it be cooling once it is above temperature
I'm new. Is the temp offset something I can change?Beer constant mode. Beer is 66.2 and the set temp. is 66.0. Not sure what the offset is but I bet it's higher than .2 degrees
Yes but the default settings work well- You will never get it tighter than a .2 differential- think 1-2 degrees. there are safeguards in the code to protect the compressor from coming on too soon after it just shut off.RDWHAHBI'm new. Is the temp offset something I can change?
I ordered from PCBS.io in early December, and it never left the fabrication stage. They wouldn't respond to anything that I sent them, and I had to open a dispute through paypal and wait again. I got refunded through paypal finally. I made my own board on some permanent prototype board, I don't intend to order anything from them again.
Thorrak,
I am using Wemos D1 mini ESP8266. I have 5 of them and two of them are already setup. I have tried to flash the other 3 and Fermentrack software will not recognize the boards. I also tried to flash the ESP32 for a tilt bridge, Fermentrack will not recognize it either. The two ESP8266 that I flashed, were in a previous version of Fermentrack.
8can you test and confirm? at one point, the drop down menu to select chip types were not working. version 18I'm at a complete loss. The code that deals with flashing hasn't been touched in probably a year. Unless one of the libraries broke, it should work just fine.
Worst case, you can use BrewFlasher. It's the same firmware list/process that Fermentrack uses - just in a standalone app for Mac/Windows.
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