I knew my sentence would be misinterpreted! I did not mean the the Tiltbridge is "half-baked". I was saying that all the "work-arounds" seem to be excessive, when the actual "problem" could be fixed with a much better transmitter built into the floating hydrometers.
My local cable company is installing a MESH WiFi network tomorrow and I plan on putting one unit in the brewery. Not sure if this will help, but at least my RPi's will be happier. Its a big house with cement and tile floors (all radiant floor heat), so it is terrible getting good communication with the existing router's location. If I have a very poor transmission from the hydrometers, then no magic will help, but this Tiltbridge should.
(sound of one hand raising)
You are correct. And actually, the touchscreen may make things worse. Once you get it configured, remove the screen and see if it helps. When I was last in that code there was a dB rating on the main screen. It will show a negative number like -60dB. You want to orient things so that the number is lower (numerically higher value.) -50dB is better than -60dB and so on.
OH CRAP!.... I was looking forward to another Toy to play with.. So, just run this setup without the screen after setup? I don't want to be a Pain in the Azz, posting my problems here, when I finally take a stab at it, and it does not work....
Wait ... you have not had a Tiltbridge all this time?
They probably will. My point, and the point of the StackExchange discussion I listed, is that almost everything attenuates signals. If the signal is faint or sporadic, moving or removing blockers may help.
NO! All my crying about this, is the hydrometers in my Unitanks, without the Tiltbridge... I was just hoping Kegland would come up with a solution quicker then me building the Tiltbridge. Sorry about the whining on my end.....
Bruh. Want a video of me building a tiltbridge?
Chuckle. Building a TiltBridge...
You already have a youtube video on your
The ESP32 is not a NOOBS, so I guess step 4 would be to flash it first.... That is where I promise you all, I will screw it up!
You plug it in and hit a web page. It works on Chrome, not on Firefox. you go to BrewFlasher Web Edition and pick the right firmware.
I did not build this yet, so I have no knowledge of how easy it is. I just figured the ESP has to be loaded up with the program script, firmware. I planned on actually reading all the documents when I get my OLED display, ESP32, and wire harness.
Its under @day_trippr Dad's Pencil Sharpener!
Are these Printers, now cheap to buy and how much use do you get out of a 3D printer? You never know how useful something is , until you buy it and find another 1,000 purposes for it! I do need a case for my Pi+Uno+Relay+terminal strip......
No, what he was pointing to was the code for a ESP32 Tilt Repeater. Way cheaper, and works very well!I think you meant this?
Tilt® Repeater
Designed for stainless steel fermenting vessels, the Tilt repeater extends range of your Tilt hydrometer so it can reach more convenient locations where you might have a tablet, phone, or Tilt Pi plugged in for continuous automatic logging. Repeater can repeat signal from one Tilt at a time as...tilthydrometer.com
$60 is not a lot of dough today... A case of good beer is almost there now! But building the ESP Tiltbridge would be more rewarding to your skill set, and I like that aspect! Plus, @Thorrak needs hacks like me, to ask questions, when our build does not work and there's does!
Definitely — I think the main takeaway is that a Tilt + 1 repeater + Tiltbridge works great - if that’s what you need to get both Bluetooth and WiFi reception. Ideally you wouldn’t need the repeater but the option is there — whether you build the repeater yourself or buy one from Tilt.
Definitely want to build this, not as a cost savings, but a learning factor.
Have been unable to find directions on how to load the TILT APP on my HO laptop... Currently unstable and slow on my Raspberry PI, do you have any suggestions?
They can handle all the colors at once. (But only one tilt per color
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Awesome!They can handle all the colors at once. (But only one tilt per color
Probably not, but the idea is that you can build as many tilt bridges as you want, inexpensively, and stick them next to each individual fermenter to get the signal in range.
Ah OK one per tilt nice and close. That's a good idea.
Sadly, no.
Roger that. Thanks for the advice.
No -- the data is being updated in the background pretty much continuously. The Tilt effectively "shouts" its reading out about once a second, and the TiltBridge picks it up in the background. Each screen, however, is "frozen" once displayed, so while the data behind the scenes is being updated, the data on screen only gets refreshed when the screen changes. The logo was a design choice made during development to make it easier for me to explicitly see screen changes (and make sure a TiltBridge wasn't frozen).
Are you referring to Fermentrack in #2 and #3? If so, then “bound” means “bound to a temperature controller (BrewPi).” Similarly, “attach” means the same thing in this context — attaching the temperature controller and TiltBridge.
Yes, Fermentrack.
with the ESP
I use a 3D printed case that @Thorrak posted the STL files for. It has a cutout on the top to expose the screen and has a small hole to allow the power cable to plug into the board.
