Glad to hear it worked well for you. I would love to hear your opinions on how it works and if the interface make sense. Always looking for input to make it work better.
Adam
I will be using it again tomorrow (newest release this time) - I'll be sure to leave a review in the Android Market
Now, on to the topic at hand, so what do you guys want me working next? From previous posts it seems there s a desire for an All-Grain timing mode. Is that still a desire? Is there anything else out there people want to see?
Adam
Suggestion: How about adding another category of timer for the mash? It seems easy enough to adapt the boil schedule to use for a simple infusion mash, which is what I'm going to try.
The minutes to steep (MTS) is used for spices or anything else you want to sit the the wort after the boil ends. A lot of my spiced beers call for cinnamon or something like that to be dropped in when the boil is over and then to steep it for 5, 10 minutes, etc. Some fruits I've added I'll drop in the boil with 1 minute or so remaining and then I'll let it steep an additional 5-15 minutes or so. Does that make sense?
Adam
it's a little odd that it makes a bunch of notifications instead of just one when an event comes up.
The only negative thing I can say is that it's a little odd that it makes a bunch of notifications instead of just one when an event comes up. That's really minor, but I thought it might be useful. It would make more sense to have single notification in the pulldown menu, with a repeating sound.
now that you mention it, I recall that happening to me for one of my alarms during my last brewday. I had been messing with the settings mid brew (specifically the single vs continuous alert option), after I noticed the multiple notification icons, i set the alerts back to how they were, and it did not reoccur. I had either 5 or 6 entries on the schedule I used. I just wrote it off as a fluke at the time.
Had a mash timing with a step time for my flame on to get my sparge water up to temp. I didn't get an alarm at the step and missed that by 5 minutes (good thing I was watching the time). Then at the end of the mash time there was no alarm and the icon in the notification window just went away at the end. All my alarm volumes were good.
I've had problems with mine too lately ever since the last update...it freezes, missed addition times...idk what happened... this did rock
mine was freezing...it just wouldn't start the boil timer...or I'd get no alarm. if look at it and it would just continue on to the next event as if nothing was happening.
So when you guys say there are multiple notifications do you mean if you had an event like “Aroma Hops” that there would be 5 or 6 entries for “Aroma Hops” in the Notification Menu? If that is so, I have seen that before in my testing but was never able to reproduce it. I thought it might be something related to my testing but it seems like it might be something more. Does it affect the results at all or is it just an inconvenience?
Does it do this every time you use it? Have you tried to create a new profile to see if it still happens?All my events were timing down and ending OK but I was not getting any alarms. There was only one icon in my notification window and that was for the brew timer. When the event ended it did not add another icon to the notification window and sound an alarm like it did the first time I used it, before the update. When the event ended it just went on to the next like it should. When the timer was finished it didn't alarm and the icon in the notification window disappeared.
Was the App Killer set up to not kill it the 2 times it happened? I could see the App Killer causing some problems. The Brew Timer is meant to stay as real time as possible since its a timer. Killing it mid process could cause issues. Ill get some of the stats on the Captivate and see if I can set up an emulator to replicate the problem. Ill also see what happens if I hit it with an app killer..well I'm using a samsung captivate...
I would start my boil timer and it does its count down letting you know it is beginning...it would start...if look a few min later and its back at 60 and no buttons work on it...this hadn't happened every time just 2. I do run app killer. could that do something? I have it setup not to auto kill..
Not stressed (much) I just to make sure this thing is running right for you guys.I have just 4 additions staggered though out the boil nothing crazy...
I don't want you to stress too hard...I'm not mad at you.
I have seen that before. Ill start trying to figure this one out.For me, it was as you described here. There would be 5 or 6 entries in the notification menu. No problems caused, just a minor inconvenience. It definitely won't stop me from using the app again.
I really appreciate the work you seem to be putting into this!
Does it do this every time you use it? Have you tried to create a new profile to see if it still happens?
Thanks again guys,
Adam
it runs always but I always allow it to bypass the brew timer....
would it cancel notifications too?
I just made a test profile with one event and the alarms worked perfectly. I don't know?? I appreciate all your work on this Adam, just not sure if I can trust it.. I want to use it but man I was frustrated when the alarms didn't go off with the mash yesterday. I had to run in the house and get the laptop and quickly setup the timer on it before my boil started.. I don't think I even cussed.
solavirtus said:I used the timer for the first time on a new phone (Droid X2) and ran into some problems. The timer process would stop without any way to tell. I would open the app and notice that the timer had stopped. I could restart it, but after a time, it would do the same thing again.
Still a good app, just need to figure out how to keep it running.
I am still using this app every time I brew!
One feature I have always wanted to see was a "Mash Timer Mode"
We typically think of the boil as a single long process with events happening at specific time remaining. Where as we think of the mash as a series of different steps.
The mash mode would change the concurrent timers to consecutive timers. Each time wouldn't run at the same time but instead trigger the next one to start.
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