Keg Cop: Keg Monitoring and Control

[LBussy]

Might be as simple as making any negative numbers go to zero

The initial fix is always easy. The challenge is to get everything else to work again with updated core libs.

 

[Lalo_uy]

It gets harder in Arduino world, where a new version of a lib may change the API and the IDE push you to update.

 

[Lalo_uy]

it's a way to flash without brewflasher?
Try to follow the instruccions for Linux install and stumble to:

git clone [email protected]:thorrak/brewflasher.git
Cloning into 'brewflasher'...
[email protected]: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.


Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

Dowloaded 3 files :
lolin_d32_firmware.bin
lolin_d32_littlefs.bin
lolin_d32_partitions.bin

For using esptool witch order or offsets of each one?

Thanks in advance.

 

[LBussy]

Calling @Thorrak .. what did you change?

 

[Thorrak]

Nothing that I'm aware of - but I don't typically use/test on Linux GUIs.

Try using BrewFlasher Command Line Edition: https://github.com/thorrak/brewflasher_cli

 

[LBussy]

[email protected]: Permission denied (publickey).

Where did you see those instructions?

The [email protected] is forcing you to authenticate as the upstream "git" user, which is wrong. it should be:

git clone https://github.com/thorrak/brewflasher.git

 

[Lalo_uy]

Where did you see those instructions?

The [email protected] is forcing you to authenticate as the upstream "git" user, which is wrong. it should be:

git clone https://github.com/thorrak/brewflasher.git

Brewflasher README.md

Running from python source on Linux Section​

Will try cli version

 

[LBussy]

Ah that's @Thorrak's fault then.

You might try the command I shared.

 

[Thorrak]

Ah that's @Thorrak's fault then.

You might try the command I shared.

Eeeehhhh, it wasn't entirely my fault...

The [email protected] is forcing you to authenticate as the upstream "git" user, which is wrong. it should be:

git clone https://github.com/thorrak/brewflasher.git

Regardless, updated the readme. Still untested, but hopefully better!

 

[Lalo_uy]

Ok, finally got brewflasher running
the pip command lasted overnight to complete.

to run : python3 Main.py and have a happy flashing

Tnx for the help

 

[Merkur]

Hi Lee and all. I have a home bar & brewery and 7 beers on tap (six on a tower and an Angram English hand-pull. The beers are all in two Komos Kegerators and they work well. I currently do an 'inventory check' about once/month by pulling the kegs out and weighing them. I know the empty weight of each keg and by entering the current weight into an Excel spreadsheet it calculates how much beer is left and the %age full.

Over the years I have built six Flite sensor lids and ESP32 controllers but found that the readings were unreliable and the lids leaked. I also started looking at building my own Plaato keg scales. I have a Taplist hosted on TapItGood which has been reliable and gives me a good looking display on the screen behind the bar.

Should I look at Keg Cop for keg level monitoring? I am up for another project. It seems a lot of work, putting the flowmeters in line with the beer, taps and a potential infection problem. What are the users finding? Is it worth it? I am not interested in controlling the kegerators using keg cop which I know is a possibility.

Paul

 

[LBussy]

I think weight is a more precise and more passive approach. Flow meters provide a reasonable per pour data point. Your comments are accurate, a guy just has to make a decision for himself.