NEW StrangeBrew Elsinore Thread

[user 101620]

When in hysteria mode at 100% run:

cat /sys/class/gpio/gpio17/value

From the command line and see what it outputs.

I've tried and failed to reproduce your issue.

 

[webguru74]

Hello be going through many of the page in the post and the old post not find the info I was looking for. It could be becuase it's not here but what I was looking for was a way to customize the web page a bit. I am running 5 temp probes(HLT,RIMS,BK,Wort out & SSR) and with the 5 temps it makes the page a bit hard to read. Is there a way to make the gauges smaller?
Thank you in advance for any help you can offer

 

[user 101620]

Hello be going through many of the page in the post and the old post not find the info I was looking for. It could be becuase it's not here but what I was looking for was a way to customize the web page a bit. I am running 5 temp probes(HLT,RIMS,BK,Wort out & SSR) and with the 5 temps it makes the page a bit hard to read. Is there a way to make the gauges smaller?
Thank you in advance for any help you can offer

I've removed the required minimum width from the css, you can play with the gauge class in the various css files as well.

I've also added an option in the system settings (by the recorder settings) so you can remove the right hand bar.

 

[Mikeliverpooluk]

doug i have run the code from the command prompt
i have tried with the output inverted and non inverted either way the relay will not toggle on and off in hysteria mode
bascially in auto mode the output toggles correctly from 0 to 1 (or 1 to 0) and the relay switches on and off as expected

in hyseria mode the output is stuck at either 1 or 0 depending on if ive inverted the gpio output or not. changing the hysteria from 0 - 100% does not change the output from the pi gpio

in summary in auto mode all great and as you would expect

in hysteria mode elsinores is not sending an output to the pi gpio even though it tells me it is ? odd it should work faultlessly in auto mode but not hysteria mode

thankyou for your continued assistance it must be something to do with my setup if it works fine on yours

mike

pi model b+
latest noobs raspian

 

[user 101620]

If you try with the newest build it should warn you if it failed to change the output. If it works in auto and manual mode there no reason hysteria won't work. The 100% is coming from the output control, not the hysteria code, and this code is the same for all modes.

If you're going from auto -> hysteria, you could try going from off to hysteria to see if there's something odd about the conversion

 

[user 101620]

Actually there is something odd in your output, it says 100% but the status is off

 

[Mikeliverpooluk]

hi doug
ive tried IE Firefox chrome on my windows pc and safari on my ipad. and all combinations of on and off i can think of. although there are slight visual differences hysteria wont work on any of them. dont get me wrong doug i love this software and am made up with it just as it is. just trying to help with bug feedback. i can continue to keep my beer chilled with my stc1000 so all happy still !! would be nice to get it going off one system though with remote monitoring. nice to know your beer is chilled when your at work !!. i only installed the software last week so it should be the latest build but i think i might re format my sd card this afternoon and do a fresh install just in case something got corrupted when i installed it last week. ill let you know how i get on cheers mike

 

[user 101620]

Don't format quite yet, I want to verify something tonight

 

[Mikeliverpooluk]

too late id already started before your last post - anyway nice clean fresh install - no different. i cant think of anything else to try at the moment so ill go and pull myself a pint of christmas porter that im finishing off from the garage! all the best mike

 

[user 101620]

Try changing to fahrenheit to see if that works. I'm GMT-5 so I won't be able to look for a while.

 

[HBrew71]

Hello Everybody! I was wondering what you guys are using for the control panel box. How are you mounting the pi in it? My panel will have the pi, one SainSmart 8-channel relay board, and 24V transformer for the valves. How are you making the connections more persistent? Are you using the breadboard or something else? Thanks for any help in advance!

 

[jangevaa]

Hello Everybody! I was wondering what you guys are using for the control panel box. How are you mounting the pi in it?

I use risers and mount my BBB directly to my control panel backplate. I'm guessing you could do something very similar for your pi.

How are you making the connections more persistent? Are you using the breadboard or something else? Thanks for any help in advance!

Some sort of soldered prototyping board is your best bet. Maybe something like this if you need a lot of space. http://www.adafruit.com/products/1135

 

[HBrew71]

Thanks jangeeva! This helps.

 

[user 101620]

I see the issue, you set the time to 0, so it'll never come on. The hysteria time is the minimum time to have the output on or off for, this prevents cycling the output and blowing outputs. I've pushed changes to force this to be at least 1.0

 

[Mikeliverpooluk]

Doug just tested it - works great! Apologies I assumed set a 0 it would be just go on and off instantly with zero delay. I was going to set it at 5 mins anyway for my compressor so should of just used my real life settings. Now time to get on ebay and start ordering parts for my control panel. Will post some pics when all built. Will do a couple of brews then maybe go to the next stage with volume meters and ph meter. Very content for now though being able to brew from the armchair!
Thanks for all your hard work
Mike

 

[cank]

Hello Everybody! I was wondering what you guys are using for the control panel box. How are you mounting the pi in it? My panel will have the pi, one SainSmart 8-channel relay board, and 24V transformer for the valves. How are you making the connections more persistent? Are you using the breadboard or something else? Thanks for any help in advance!

Went to radio shack for small solder breadboards. Soldered resistor in then a series of pins for all my temp probes. On the other board I soldered breakout pins for 12 power, 5v power, ph, and gpio-therm pin out to my main panel.
Used vinyl stand offs from HD to mount pi and sainsmart. Used a plastic 4x4 cover to mount the breakout boards.

View attachment 1422487872659.jpg

 

[cank]

Here is the back of one of those boards.

View attachment 1422488375177.jpg

 

[user 101620]

I'm working on a fairly substantial update for this upcoming week, and I'm looking for people to help out with some testing, all you need to do is: provide me with a beerXML file of a recipe (or several) that you know well, send me a private message with it, and then I'll do some testing, and send them back and ask you to confirm that the recipe i provide back matches the details in the one you provided.

This is so I can get extra sets of eyes to look at the output and make sure that I haven't missed anything.

 

[Swab]

I'm working on a fairly substantial update for this upcoming week, and I'm looking for people to help out with some testing, all you need to do is: provide me with a beerXML file of a recipe (or several) that you know well, send me a private message with it, and then I'll do some testing, and send them back and ask you to confirm that the recipe i provide back matches the details in the one you provided.

This is so I can get extra sets of eyes to look at the output and make sure that I haven't missed anything.

are you looking for complex recipes Doug? Or will any old recipe do?

 

[zombiekai]

DougEdey,
This is a great project. I have a single kettle set up running as a prototype for a eHERM system. Worked out most of the bugs. Is there a way move stuff around in the UI? I can't read both temps and pumps at the same time but I have free space right of he gauges I thought I had done it in the past.
Thank you for you awesome project.

 

[user 101620]

are you looking for complex recipes Doug? Or will any old recipe do?

Anything, I've created a parser that implements all of BeerXML 1.0 (going to do more work for the newer BeerXML standards [if/when finalized]) and I want to make sure I catch all the peculiarities of different implementations.

 

[user 101620]

DougEdey,
This is a great project. I have a single kettle set up running as a prototype for a eHERM system. Worked out most of the bugs. Is there a way move stuff around in the UI? I can't read both temps and pumps at the same time but I have free space right of he gauges I thought I had done it in the past.
Thank you for you awesome project.

The is ongoing work to improve the UI, the upgrade that allows you to re-arrange the PIDs/temps will be extended to include the pumps and timers in the future.

You can hide inputs to show more on the top line. But all the temps/pumps/timers will be shown on the screen.

 

[DeadHead_Brewering]

Doug,

Excellent work on this project. I've been lurking for quite awhile now. I think I will pull the trigger when the new Raspberry Pi 2 is available.
Anyhoo, attached is a beer.xml recipe of a beer I brew often. If you need more, I can give you additional.

Thanks again for your hard work!

Regards,

Robert

View attachment RobertsMild.xml

 

[petewa]

here is a 10 gallon beer i have just made....

View attachment barrel-aged-stout.xml

 

[user 101620]

Thanks everyone, I have enough recipes now. I'll be working on the recipe stuff for a bit now.

 

[cank]

For those of you running Raspberry Pi's
The new linux Kernal has a new Device Tree setup:
For info read:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=97314

To get temp probes to work with a new update you must put this text in config.txt.
first run

sudo nano /boot/config.txt

then place this in the file

dtoverlay=w1-gpio

I had to build a new card image and could not get any of my sensors to show up last night. This took some digging and hope it helps some others out...

 

[JayElDubya]

Oh man, great info. Thanks for the heads-up.

 

[petewa]

For those of you running Raspberry Pi's
The new linux Kernal has a new Device Tree setup:
For info read:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=97314

To get temp probes to work with a new update you must put this text in config.txt.
first run

sudo nano /boot/config.txt

then place this in the file

dtoverlay=w1-gpio

I had to build a new card image and could not get any of my sensors to show up last night. This took some digging and hope it helps some others out...

Thanks... i ended up backing down the kernel (3.18.x) down to 3.12.x. I will also try your fix.

Thanks again

 

[user 101620]

Attached a couple of recipes that've been run through Elsinore, there may be some subtle discrepancies on volumes (shouldn't be much though), let me know if anything major seems off.

View attachment robertsmildoutput.xml

View attachment barrelagedstoutoutput.xml

 

[FriendOfBrewers]

While I understand that every system will have differences (heating capacity, thermal loss, etc), I expect that most of our Duty, P, I, & D values fall within a range.

I'll be tuning my system tonight and I'd like to get an idea of what values others are using. My mash tun is an insulated keg. I'll be heating with a 240v 5500 watt element running at 1375 watts on 120v circuit in a RIMS tube. My system can raise the temperature of 5 gals of water 1 degree Fahrenheit in approximately 48 seconds.

I'm thinking of starting with these values: Duty=1, P=48, I=0, D=0.

What's your equipment, batch size, and values?