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You're welcome!! I'm brewing today, so I'll get to clean up/post at least some of the code during the mash and boil. :mug:

HAHAHAHA!!! Yep. I've almost got it cleaned up enough where it's readable. I had planned to do it while at work but this was a busy week and they expected me to... you know... work. LOL!! :smack::p

Hi! As far as the LCD goes. Here's how you wire it up. Important: Wire +5V and GND to the shield pins shown in the pictures! The GND pin next to the 5v pin is NOT connected. You must use the one next to the VIN pin! I'm using the UNO, so it's the very first diagram. :)...

Hmmm.. BrewPi. I'm going to have to have a look at their code and see if there's anything I'd like to "Borrow." ;)

Bingo!! :mug: Ever since I saw Edwort post a video where he just sets the lid on top of the bucket, that's all I do. No airlock, no seal. Just place it on top and let it ride.

Yup. That sounds suspiciously like what I have set up. My Arduino sends data to my PHP/SQL server (just a Raspberry Pi sitting on my desk in the office.) The Arduino also gets the desired set point from the SQL database.

Thanks!! I'm going through my code and cleaning up some of the debugging stuff and also doing a better job of commenting it so that you can see what's going on. I will be posting it all when I get it cleaned up / well commented. Also, I'm going to post the data sheet for the...

Here's what it looks like inside the enclosure.

Here's a screen grab of the web page with the graphing. I currently have it set to show me the last 160 minutes. This is adjustable in the PHP code. The temp and set point will show up to two decimal points. It doesn't show the decimal points if it reads, for example exactly 68.00. I just...

So I finished putting it together. I have it "fermenting" a bucket of water at the moment as a test run. (I'm skeered to try it on a real brew first time through.) Here it is on top of my chest freezer. Green LCD means it's within +/- 1 degree of the set point.

Only time I ever secondary any more is when I'm adding fresh fruit. And I only do that once a year for a Christmas beer. I go straight from primary to keg. I even lager in kegs. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Parts list added to the first post. Soon, I'll gather all my code together and post it too.

Of course! I actually meant to do that in the first post but... Squirrels happened.

So I got the Arduino connected to its network shield. I also got an RGB LCD to display the Target Temp and the Actual Temp. I wrote some code to change the LCD backlight to Red, Green, or Blue based on whether the controller was Heating, Just right, or Cooling so that I could tell at a glance...

Apologies up front for my writing style. I sort of bounce all over the place like a gerbil on speed. Code has been uploaded to GIT. https://github.com/timdsmith72/tempControl Parts needed: Waterproof DS18B20 Digital temperature sensor Link: http://www.adafruit.com/products/381 RGB LCD...

I actually laughed out loud at this one. Hehehe

In a pub once, I had a waitress carefully explain to me that a hefeweizen had hints of banana because "they add banana juice to it during fermentation." {facePalm}

One of the best things I've ever done for my beer (besides closely controlling the fermentation temps, which it already sounds like you're doing) is leave it in the primary for at least 3 weeks. It allows the yeast to clean up all the byproducts of fermentation that can lead to off flavors...

Just tapped this year's batch of this. Just as good as I remember. Last year's on left. This year's on right.

From experience, it's a great recipe. I'm making it again this weekend.