Good thing I held on to my old phone. My son is not to happy loosing out on a toy but in a few days he will forget about it.
Question on the cloud will this log all data from every beer I do as long as I change the name or am I going to have to create a new file every time?
Yeah, I have to say, using old iPhone and Android devices as the receiving units for these things was a pretty brilliant idea. Pretty much everyone I know has one or more of those laying around, and if you don't, you can pick up a used/broken screen one for cheaper than you could likely buy whatever receiving unit they would try to sell themselves for it.
Still though, can't believe you were able to pry an old phone away from your kid!
To answer your question, yes, you can just use the one sheet to track all of your beers. If you've got multiple different color Brewometers, they will all log under their respective color, and as long as you enter a beer name each time you ferment a new beer, they will log under their color + beer name. You can then filter on the first sheet by color or beer, and the data below as well as the chart will auto-update to that.
Hey everyone, I got mine today and I'm floating it in water now. I created a google site to publish my data. Here is the link. Check it out:
https://sites.google.com/site/alsorangebrewometer/
I like the guages chart because I can configure them to tell me when I've hit my gravity and monitor temps - just like on the line-chart, but just more neat-o.
Good thinking on the site as well as the gauge chart! I just setup some gauges in my sheet to play around with as well. I might also go the sites route as well. I love that we make everything so easy to setup and play around with at Google. I get a big kick out of seeing people use our technology for stuff like this! :rockin:
One question for you though - how were you planning to track multiple beers going at the same time on your site, as the charts are updated based off your filtering options in the first sheet? I suppose you could just make a copy of the first sheet for each beer you've got going, leave it filtered, and then base the charts off of your copied/filtered sheet?
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Update on my side... I received my replacement unit and 2nd unit yesterday. The one that is being replaced is still in my fermenting beer, and in addition to the 7 or 8 "freak out" episodes it'd had previously (temp and gravity getting way off from actual measurements - then correcting itself), it's pretty much lost its mind during the cold crash phase. If you take a look at the
graph in my sheet you'll notice two valleys and four peaks since I started my cold crash, where the temp has dropped as low as 24F and gone as high as 51F, and none of those events actually happened. Several times when I witnessed this I'd gone out and taken samples, and they were all at 32-34F, when I have my setpoint at 33F, so basically off as much as 19F at some points. Also, when this is going on the gravity gets all out of wack, sometimes as much as 10 points or so.
Still hopeful that I just got a bad unit, as the developers said they'd only had a couple of other reports similar to this, and nothing exactly like what I was experiencing.
I emailed them today to ask about recommended calibration instructions, as the fluctuations I'm seeing would seem to indicate there is some correlation between temp and gravity on the unit. So I'm not sure if we should be using liquid at a certain temp to calibrate the gravity, or if we should calibrate temp first, then gravity, etc. I'll report back if they give me any tips!
