Recent content by Ripfence

I want to start off by thanking @Thorrak and the rest of the community for all the hard work everyone has done creating Fermentrak, writing/tweaking the firmware, and answering all of the questions. Thank you all very much. I have my system up and running and tracking a "test" batch so I can...

It has been my experience that there are always small (< 1.5 degree F) variances in how any given temp sensor will read out of the box. That's why most applications that use them offer the ability to add an offset in the first place. If you're seeing a 0.6 difference between the two, that...

You could just use a single sensor for Fridge temperature and control it based on that. Basically, that's what an off-the-shelf temp controller does, but with the added logging benefit of Fermentrack. It wouldn't be quite as accurate but you could control the refrigerator/freezer and log your...

I too am having this issue and with a similar setup. I'm running an esp8266 NodeMCU with the latest firmware flashed via Fermentrack. I've troubleshooted the hardware (connections, relays, etc) and all checks out. My Heat relay is connected to D0 as specified in the documentation, but it...

Sincerely appreciate all you've done so far. It's renewed my interest in micro controllers and now, sadly, I don't have any more free time. :)

I've got a question about Fermentrack. First I have to say that Thorrak did a GREAT job on the ESP8266 controller port. Works flawlessly, and the platform is really easy to work with. Now, on to Fermentrack. My graphs are displaying data points in UTC time, though my Pi displays the...

That did it! Nice catch and thank you very much! As a matter of fact, I *AM* using Safari. It didn't occur to me that it could be a browser issue. Thanks all for the help!!

THANK YOU for taking a look at this. I updated the code and the "Another instance of BrewPi..." message is gone. I'm still seeing it alternate between "Script Running"/"Script not running" and the LCD going back & forth as well. Having never used BrewPi before, I'm not sure if this is...

Well, I've gotten my ESP8266 working and am really excited about that. I've run into an issue on the BrewPi end though. I started with a clean (and patched) build of Raspian then installed BrewPi using Thorrak's modified installer from http://github.com/thorrak/brewpi-utils, then updated the...

Yup, that's exactly what I was seeing. I misunderstood the purpose of the ESP component--thought it did a bit more than data collection. Just ordered a second Pi to host Fermentrak, so I think I'm going to be just fine now. Thank you, Thorrak, for all of the time you've put into these...

I've successfully flashed my esp, then went through the WIFI setup process. I've gone to my router and I know the IP address of the esp. My question is, should I be able to point my browser to the esp and get to it? When try to hit http://<esp-ip-address>:23 the browser won't connect...

OK, I measured the voltage on my board's 5v pins and I got 11.9 volts. I guess I know what fried my Pi. Now to figure out how to fix it. Since this is an official board, I'll get with Sebastian offline on the settings. Thanks a bunch for the help!

Buck module? Not sure what that is. If there's something I need to do to bring the voltage down then this is the problem. Can you tell me what this is and how to adjust it? BTW, I'm sure there is not a defect in the board and the problem is in something I did (or forgot to do).

I'm needing some advice--I fried my Pi. I've finished up my brew panel and went to test it. I have an official board connected to a Pi Zero-W. I connected this power supply to the 12v connection--V+ to the positive side and "common" to the negative side. There's also 2 SSR's and one sensor...