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    Bad efficiency brew day

    Water is lazy. It will find the shortest path, either during mash or sparge. String is a simple yet effective way to avoid channelling.
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    BrewPiLessGx: BrewPiLess with Touched TFT display

    They are defined in Config.h, but you can change it in "System" page.
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    Kegland Rapt Pill floating hydrometer temperature monitor

    The problem here has nothing to do with stratification. The behavior is the same in water, which has TDS reading under 50. I'll do another test to put the pill in a fixed angle instead of water. BTW, it seems that Pill uses Gyro instead of acceleration sensor according to the information I...
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    BrewPiLessGx: BrewPiLess with Touched TFT display

    I found this when struggling flashing the device: https://github.com/janick/WT32-SqLn I think my first flashing was successful, but either it was in download mode or the program crashed just after boot-up. (The bug was fixed later) Seeing no response, I tried another flashing. It failed at 38%...
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    Kegland Rapt Pill floating hydrometer temperature monitor

    I've tested it in water to conclude that the tilting angle is smaller when the temperature drops.
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    Kegland Rapt Pill floating hydrometer temperature monitor

    X axis is temperature in Celsius. At around 20°C, the tilt angle is around 25.4°, while it is 25.1° at 8°C. For my Pill, that difference is translated to almost 1 point(0.001). It is even worse if "temperature correction for hydrometer" is applied. The temperature is getting hotter, and my...
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    Kegland Rapt Pill floating hydrometer temperature monitor

    Changing the report period to 5 minutes, the battery seems to last longer than I have expected. Well, I don't know how long it will be, but it is 71% now after two months. At least 4 to 6 months can be expected. One issue I have when brewing lager is tilt angle drift caused by (maybe) the...
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    BrewPiLessGx: BrewPiLess with Touched TFT display

    Please read the "Readme.md" in the project, Custom Hardware section. I would recommend against resistive touch panel. According to my experience, calibration is necessary. My experience might be outdated, though.
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    BrewPiLessGx: BrewPiLess with Touched TFT display

    It took me a while to bring WT-SC01+ on, for 1. I had to find a way to make it in download mode. Finally I found that shorting GPIO0 and GND works 30~50% of the time for me. 2. The device won't boot-up normally but remain in download mode after downloaded, which makes me think it's dead. 3. I...
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    BrewPiLessGx: BrewPiLess with Touched TFT display

    Yeah. It took me a while to adapt to LGFX. Although the driver matches the chip, there are parameters that seems to differ from drivers to drivers, like rotation, color, and even position shift. I would suggest to use GPIO10 for ADC, because ADC2, GPIO 11~20, is also used by WiFi. That is the...
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    BrewPiLessGx: BrewPiLess with Touched TFT display

    I don't have that display and haven't tested on it. It is supported by SmartDisplay library. However, I've ditched SmartDisplay library and change to LGFX library for more drivers.
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    Aerate during fermentation

    According to Dr. Clayton Cone, 14th hour into fermentation is the optimum time to add the oxygen. https://hbd.org/hbd/archive/3301.html#3301-1 In the Yeast book, it is suggested to add a second dose of oxygen between 12 and 18 hours.
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    BrewPiLessGx: BrewPiLess with Touched TFT display

    WT32 SC01+ is a ESP32S3 device, so add -DCONFIG_IDF_TARGET_ESP32S3=true to the build_flags in platformio.ini . Moreover, only GPIO 10, in this case, is good for ADC.
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    BrewPiLessGx: BrewPiLess with Touched TFT display

    @OpenFermenter The glycol related information is now available. You can use the following tag to display: - Glycol Temperature: glt - Glycol Temperature Set: glts - Glycol status time: gle ( The time since last state changed.) - Glycol Cooler state: gls ( enumeration(text or icons). 0: Off...
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    BrewPiLessGx: BrewPiLess with Touched TFT display

    GlycolSet is not currently available, It can be added easily as well as the status of glycol cooling. On the other hand, an "extra" temperature reading for real room temperature is more complicated. I implemented this glycol temperature control when I was using glycol to chill my beer in...
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