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Yes I do have a BIAB setup that I have been brewing on while I have been working on building the automated rig.

Done making cables. Almost ready to fire it all up.

In terms of PC rebooting from updates, do you have Brucontrol setup to automatically start upon booting, and are your fermentation scripts set to auto start? I've also set windows to auto login upon bootup. This should bring everything back into working order after a reboot.

This is what I am using. Pretty happy with it for $259 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07W6JKR59/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_7GMEQXBMFQ3B3D1S0JC1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Finally. The control panels are installed and the brew stand is reassembled. Time to make a bunch of cables.

Here is the control box for the grain mill scale. I added a relay to turn on/off the mill. I plan to use a script to turn the mill off after it mills a buckets worth of grain. I will then swap out buckets and then continue milling the rest of the grain.

Grain mill scale is up and running. I am using 3 10Kg load cells that are wired in parallel into a single HX711.

If you go down the route of using my arduino sketch, I would start by creating a serial passthrough sketch where you can use the main serial connection through the USB port to send and receive commands/responses to the ESP and setup an RS-485 that takes those commands and sends them over the...

Last thing to do before mounting the control panels. My wife is hand painting the lettering for each connector. She's got some mad artistic talent. You can check out her cake decorating skills at sugarlacedcakes on instagram.

Yup. I tested it on the bench before soldering in the screw terminals and installing in the control panels. Tested all interfaces again once it was in the panel.

I'm an electrical engineer. I design large circuit boards for large compute systems. Each one of the systems costs ~$500K to make. They are used for prototyping/emulating cell phone processors prior to making the actual chip.

Built up the V1.1 boards yesterday. Along with the PCBs I bought the solder paste stencil. I placed all the parts with tweezers under the microscope and used a hot air gun with the air flow set to minimum to reflow the solder paste. Start by taping the PCB to the lab bench. Here is a...

The TC butter fly valve I have is in a CR05 configuration. In my first control panel I used 2 SPDT relays. In my new panel I have a 4 channel DPDT relay for these. Either way works the same. Wire the blue to the common pin of one of the relays. Connect the NO of that relay to power and the NC...

0-100mBar 0-5V output power 24V

I have 3 devices running this same code for the wifi and don't have any issues connecting. Must be something specific to your wifi network.

I knew I was forgetting something when I re-uploaded it. Thanks

The code didn't upload correctly. I fixed it. Try copying it again.

I have been playing around with load cells and the HX711. Here is the code I came up with. It supports Taring, single point calibration, and switching units (g, oz, lbs, kg). It uses the onboard EEPROM to store the unit and calibration value so it's preserved during a power cycle. Even though...

If you are lost in the weeds when it comes to how to write a script to automate your process, I would recommend starting with a flow chart or state machine diagram that maps out the entire process for each step. Include what is happening at each step, what causes the process to move to the next...

@passedpawn. Just received payment for the false bottom, so it's no longer available.