I built a TiltPi before I built the BrewPi (Big thanks to LBussy for helping with this!). Using Fermentrack now and wondered if TiltPi was supported or should I build a TiltBridge.
There's no reason you can't have both.
I searched the thread and didn't find any results, though maybe I didn't use good enough search terms..
Yesterday my Fermentrack controller lost power because the GFI tripped on the outlet powering it. Thus, no cooling pump power to the chiller coil, no glycol tank circulation pump moving the liquid around. During the power outage, the Raspberry Pi always showed that it couldn't connect to the ESP8266 controllers.
Can there be an alarm set up in the Fermentrack software on the PI to send an email or other alert after the controllers are no connected for X amount of time? I know that occasional WiFi dropouts or weak signals can have minor outages in the communication between them and the Raspberry Pi. I'm talking about 30 minutes or more. I was out of town on vacation and knew that there was quite some time with "Cannot receive LCD text from Controller/Script" but didn't know the extent (an entire 24 hours with no cooling in 90F temperatures).
Thus my Centennial Blonde went from 68F to 74F over a 24 hour time period before I got home. I hope it's OK.
I don't see any time of alarm/warning like this now. So I guess I'll submit this as a feature request.
Could someone give me a hint as to where the current beer profile graph points are stored? I see the CSV in the data dir... but copying that between fermentrack doesnt' seem to work. If both instances are currently logging then copying from one to the other doesn't copy the data points. Also, going to "manage logs" is empty on the newer one.
I suspect knowledge of the beer logs is hidden in a db enry, or another table of contents file somewhere...
Can there be an alarm set up in the Fermentrack software on the PI to send an email or other alert after the controllers are no connected for X amount of time?
One idea that may lead you down another rabbit hole is to set-up a local Node-Red instance. It can even run on the same Pi. You can use the endpoints from Fermentrack to a Node-Red flow (what TiltPi uses, essentially), and add into the flow your notification service of choice- Pushbullet, Pushover, Slack, Email, etc. Depending on your GoogleFu and code experience (I have none of the latter), you can get it up and running. If you run into any trouble PM me and I can steer you further.
I do have this running to some extent in my Node-Red via HomeAssistant. That'll take you down yet another deep rabbit hole!
Completely agree that it's outside of the scope of these awesome projects! It is certainly something @rkhanso can implement easily for his use case though. I am sure it can be scripted but I don't know how to code, hence why I use NodeRedHeh - definitely not going down that rabbit hole.
I do use Home Assistant also. I have not installed Node-Red on HA because I don't know how to use Node-Red. I do have notifications set up in Home Assistant, so maybe this wouldn't be too hard to implement. Going to have to read up on Node-Red.One idea that may lead you down another rabbit hole is to set-up a local Node-Red instance. It can even run on the same Pi. You can use the endpoints from Fermentrack to a Node-Red flow (what TiltPi uses, essentially), and add into the flow your notification service of choice- Pushbullet, Pushover, Slack, Email, etc. Depending on your GoogleFu and code experience (I have none of the latter), you can get it up and running. If you run into any trouble PM me and I can steer you further.
I do have this running to some extent in my Node-Red via HomeAssistant. That'll take you down yet another deep rabbit hole!
I do use Home Assistant also. I have not installed Node-Red on HA because I don't know how to use Node-Red.
Using Fermentrack and TiltBridge for my fermentations and works great. Any suggestions on getting the Tilt data into Beersmith? Beersmith supports CSV and google sheets data. If I setup Tiltbridge to use google sheets does that mean it won't log in fermentrack? Can I still view the data in fermentrack?
Currently I switch between the Arduino dashboard and the Tilt dashboard to view data. What is the purpose of the assign tilt to Arduino option? Does this let me view all the data under one dashboard? The fermentation chamber is still controlled by the probes in this case correct, not the tilt?
I don't want to make many changes until I understand what they do.
Thanks
I notice your log interval is 30min. Mine is 1 min by default and I saw another persons screen shot set at 30sec. Any reason to log so frequently? Does the log take up much storage space? Is there any way to customize or smooth the graphs? Cant find anything in docs. No big deal just wondering.
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