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  1. danb35

    Native ESP8266 BrewPi Firmware - WiFi BrewPi, no Arduino needed!

    I'll get working on it. Just importing the EAGLE files into KiCad is leaving some odd artifacts, so I'm thinking I'll need to re-draw them. May take a little while, but I'll put in a PR when they're ready. I now have a sensor board populated with three 18b20s and was able to get them assigned...
  2. danb35

    Native ESP8266 BrewPi Firmware - WiFi BrewPi, no Arduino needed!

    This discussion probably belongs more over here than on the Fermentrack thread, so I'll post the link to at least connect the two: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/fermentrack-fermentation-monitoring-brewpi-www-replacement-for-raspberry-pi.649303/post-10306261 Discussing using Fermentrack...
  3. danb35

    Fermentrack: Fermentation monitoring & BrewPi-www Replacement for Raspberry Pi

    For the sake of anyone else who might want to try this: The size of the temp sensor jack on the Icemaster Max 4 (and, I'm sure, on the Max 2) is indeed 5521--5.5mm OD, 2.1mm ID With resistor values of 33k and 8k2 (based in part on what I had at hand), my controllers read 25°F on the low side...
  4. danb35

    Native ESP8266 BrewPi Firmware - WiFi BrewPi, no Arduino needed!

    Boards are here, complete with SMT assembly. I've built up two of the boards, and plugged an ESP and a 2004 I2C LCD into one of them--it flashes fine, talks to the display fine, comes up on the network fine. Don't have it talking to temp sensors yet, but that should be soon (there isn't a...
  5. danb35

    Glycol chiller inhibited polypropylene question

    Sure is: https://www.chemworld.com/Corrosion-Inhibited-Propylene-Glycol-p/ipg-1.htm Add a colorant too if desired.
  6. danb35

    Burned my last beer--why?

    Funny, a friend of mine helped me with this beer, and that was his response when I told him it had burned: "Rauchbier!" But sadly they don't; "smoked" smells very different from "burnt."
  7. danb35

    Fermentrack: Fermentation monitoring & BrewPi-www Replacement for Raspberry Pi

    All I have at the moment is this: https://devices.esphome.io/devices/Sonoff-POWR316-16a ...and: https://github.com/BernhardSchlegel/Brick-32 They don't seem to match, and I can't directly account for that. But main.cpp at the latter looks like it has pin definitions right at the top.
  8. danb35

    Burned my last beer--why?

    I don't for the bag (I use dryer sheets in some loads, but I air-dry the bag). All I can say otherwise is that it comes out looking clean. I haven't tried a hot PBW solution to clean it, but that'd be easy enough; that's what I use to clean the kettle with anyway.
  9. danb35

    Burned my last beer--why?

    I'll admit I haven't measured it, but around 3/8" diameter is about what I had, and is consistent with prior batches. My normal cleaning regimen for the bag has been to run it through the wash. I used 2 lb of the candi syrup in this batch.
  10. danb35

    Fermentrack: Fermentation monitoring & BrewPi-www Replacement for Raspberry Pi

    ...and a Kasa plug if you need to control another device. I have a couple of the Sonoff units on the way, so I'll see what I can do with them.
  11. danb35

    Native ESP8266 BrewPi Firmware - WiFi BrewPi, no Arduino needed!

    OK, a single row of pins is a lot closer to what I'd seen. Does it need to be 320x240 (that's the bulk of what I'd seen)? Given an appropriate resolution, I don't suppose the physical size really matters.
  12. danb35

    Burned my last beer--why?

    Interesting, and thanks for the pointer. I don't see a solution there (other than "don't use a protein rest"), but at least it seems to corroborate that as a possible cause. And there was some off-white "gunk", for lack of a better word, on the outside of the bag.
  13. danb35

    Native ESP8266 BrewPi Firmware - WiFi BrewPi, no Arduino needed!

    I guess I wasn't very clear--leaving aside the "official" D32 pro TFT display with its cable, what should I be looking for, and how would I connect it? Nothing of what I'm seeing on eBay has a matching connector, so it isn't quite clear what I should be shopping for. Understood. Should I keep...
  14. danb35

    Native ESP8266 BrewPi Firmware - WiFi BrewPi, no Arduino needed!

    ...and a further question: with the ESP32 build, it looks like you're preferring a TFT screen to the 2004 I2C text display. You link to an "official" 2.4", 320x240 TFT display and cable, which connects directly to a D32 Pro, but you also have a 10-pin connector footprint on the PCB that's also...
  15. danb35

    Burned my last beer--why?

    No, I don't. I included it as it was part of the recipe, but I more often do single infusion.
  16. danb35

    Burned my last beer--why?

    I can definitely see the logic in that. I'm not sure I'm sold, but I can easily understand how it would look like a culprit, and it's easy enough to modify the process to avoid that as a problem--just add it after flameout, with the recirc pump running. I recall seeing a video on YT (I think...
  17. danb35

    Burned my last beer--why?

    Mashdar, that's correct. The bag sits on the false bottom, which keeps it off the element by an inch or more. The pump is circulating wort in that space (as well as sending a little bit over the top) from the start of the mash until after mash out at around 185°F, whereupon (following Bobby's...
  18. danb35

    Fermentrack: Fermentation monitoring & BrewPi-www Replacement for Raspberry Pi

    My understanding is that the Sonoff units in question are based on the ESP32, not the 8266. But yes, it does have only the one sensor wired to it. I'm sure others could be added (it's still a 18b20, so still uses the Onewire interface), but that'd be kind of hacky. I'd missed that earlier...
  19. danb35

    Burned my last beer--why?

    Other than all the burned-on residue (I've managed to clean most, but not all, of it off), yes--no apparent damage to the surface, and it appears to be a constant diameter from end to end.
  20. danb35

    Burned my last beer--why?

    I suspected the syrup, but that's added near the end of the boil--it wouldn't explain darkened wort at the beginning of the boil, would it?
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