Tilt Simulator

[poupou]

Today I had both an idea and some time to update my BLE-WiFi bridge for my tilt hydrometers.

However my tilts were busy doing their real job... and I did not feel like moving the laptop in the freezer

I did have a few ESP32 controllers doing nothing that, unlike fermentation, could not be interrupted. Yet another project was born

I'm hoping this could prove useful to others doing similar projects.

Happy New Year!

 

[day_trippr]

Feeling like there is a lot of info missing here....

Cheers!

 

[poupou]

Feeling like there is a lot of info missing here....

Sorry. I thought the title, along with the screenshot, would be clear.

What is it? A simple tool that use an ESP32-based controller to simulate one (or many) Tilt hydrometers.

How ? A single controller can broadcast, over Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), the same signal that one (or all 16) Tilt hydrometer(s) normally do.

Why ? To make it easier to create and debug software/hardware that works with Tilts hydrometers, without buying a lot of Tilts (or removing them from their primary purpose).

Unlikely to be directly useful for most brewers but if it helps any other do-it-yourselfer, beside me, then it was worth sharing.

Cheers!

 

[pletch]

Sorry. I thought the title, along with the screenshot, would be clear.

What is it? A simple tool that use an ESP32-based controller to simulate one (or many) Tilt hydrometers.

How ? A single controller can broadcast, over Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), the same signal that one (or all 16) Tilt hydrometer(s) normally do.

Why ? To make it easier to create and debug software/hardware that works with Tilts hydrometers, without buying a lot of Tilts (or removing them from their primary purpose).

Unlikely to be directly useful for most brewers but if it helps any other do-it-yourselfer, beside me, then it was worth sharing.

Cheers!

This is great.

I worked with @Thorrak to hack together a simple program to emulate Tilts about a week ago but your application is much nicer.

Thank you for sharing.

 

[Thorrak]

You are my hero @poupou - this will make testing Fermentrack/TiltBridge much easier!

 

[LBussy]

Ditto, sir.

 

[Thorrak]

Works like a charm. Thank you!

 

[LBussy]

TOTALLY read the title wrong on this one ......

 

[UncleD]

+1 @poupou knows his stuff!

 

[poupou]

I'm back to work today so my free time will slow down... but, at some point, I want to complete the companion app. The goal is to be able to feed existing tilt log file(s) back to the simulator to "play" it/them again, either at normal or (likely more useful) higher speed.