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  1. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    Interesting, I will have to try that... there is a debug you can use to have the interface spit out the PID component and total output values to the terminal every calculation period. This was how I eventually was able to see if it was actually incrementing the Ki value as time increased.
  2. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    IMHO, a better request would be to have full-on/full off ranges added to the PID setup... Side note - I spent YEARS trying to get PID to work with a proportional cooling valve, the issue was part my learning curve, and part the implementation of PID in BruControl not being like a discrete PID...
  3. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    I love BruControl, I really do... but again, somehow at 3am, the damn windows pc that was set to 'notify to install, notify to restart' via gpedit.msc actually restarted due to an update and my ferment overshot temp by ten degrees........ and I cannot have it run on hysteresis because my mega...
  4. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    @BrunDog - is there a way to debug/display all bluetooth beacons seen by a interface? Would be a cool thing to see with a control code.. I want to see if I can integrate these bluetooth battery monitors into my system to monitor my UPS (without hooking up a dedicated interface to them with a...
  5. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    With a screw shield, this little dongle is an option, you can connect most of the wires to the 2x3 that is on the screw shield after populating the holes with pins Amazon.com: HiLetgo W5500 SPI to LAN Ethernet Network Module TCP IP STM32 Interface 3.3V 5V for Arduino WIZ820io RC5 : Electronics...
  6. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    Thinking of off-line hysteresis, could you have a bit more capable, then it might fit more people's needs? I am happy running pc all the time, even though windows update on new machine got me a couple days ago and let ferment temp go to the moon... option 1 - work put into it so that you...
  7. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    How much memory, and type of drive? I had HP Elitedesk 800G1 with I7-4770, 32GB with 7200rpm HDD and it took 6-7 minutes. Same config file, Same HP motherboard in a HP 800 Elitedesk G1SFF, similar processor(I5-4690), 24GB and older Kingston 240GB SSD is about 10 seconds to load.
  8. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    I ran into this and it messed with me for a few hours, finally found the answer was to install Visual C++ redistributable first and then install the SQL LocalDB https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/VC_redist.x64.exe @BrunDog you might want to put this in the Installation Product Note.
  9. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    Saw this new fanless mini pc from gigabyte with my search for the jasper lake N5105 10nm - 10w cpu... not available yet, and will not win any beauty contests, but is low power high performance and has a few other neat features like regular and m.2 ssd, along with being from a reputable...
  10. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    Oh if he wants that, it is not worth it, but he does a lot of cell phone and tv work, and seems very reasonable... I am hoping $20-$40.. we shall see... and if I get 10, it might be cheaper. I also put in a feature request with itead.cc, they met my two of three items of a feature request I...
  11. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    maybe... I am going to take one to the local dude that does electronics repair and has a SMD workstation with a camera on a 65" monitor to have 10 30awg kynar wires added to a pin header which is hot-glued to the main board. The following will set me up perfectly I *think*: 1-wire and reset...
  12. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    Is it possible to change the ESP32 wifi ssid/password OTA in 45O? If not, I would like you to consider a feature request to do it via a % command in the communications window.
  13. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    OK, DUAL R3 is a go! I soldered the wires, programmed 45O firmware with the CH340, it worked, had to disconnect the 3.3v pin and hook to AC power to get termite to respond and program wifi, and added to my test setup at home I have the 2 relays and LED working.... will test the switches...
  14. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    Disk OK I am at 18MB/sec on the Data.mdf file and that is what seems to be causing the 5min wait.. do I really need a 3GB file for my database? Can I reduce that?
  15. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    It is 3.5 7200, but if SQL is loaded, that is not what is is slowing it down.. 10k (or 15k)would only be for a 300/600/1.2 SAS drive on a server, I have 3 i7-4770 based computers, the two others are handling 8-12 HD surveillance cameras each for home and office with 8TB 7200rpm drives , and...
  16. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    It is an HP Elitedesk 800 G1 Mini Tower i7-4770 with 500GB HDD and 32GB and not sure what 'graphical based elements means, but I have bout 40-50 'things' in 6 workspaces... I did not restart the entire PC, just shutdown BC without disabling, and started the new version of BC the five minute...
  17. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    Upgraded to the 1.1.0.22, and used the opportunity to time the startup, 5 minutes and 54 seconds.... If it were possible to have BC start without the database being fully up, that would be appreciated... missing a few datapoints is much preferred over missing control for 5 minutes...
  18. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    My overall fermentation script starts, but each fermenter has it's own on/off, and that is not remembered on startup... I do not have is set to auto start yet, that is on my list now, but never was, because, I never had these problem on the old Win7 Laptop that I upgraded from, and upgrading...
  19. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    it looks like the localdb has it's own tool: SQL Server LocalDB Management Utility SqlLocalDB.exe
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