Brewfather currently is one of the best, if not the best brewing software available for home brewers. It offers a fully integrated suite of features ranging from inventory tracking, recipe creation, brewing assistance to fermentation tracking. However, Brewfather doesn't currently include features for automating the fermentation process, including options for…
This is a maintenance release which solves the need for manually pairing with your Grainfather controller on the first launch. GF Connect will now automatically scan for the controller and pair the bluetooth connection without need for editing the configuration. The bluetooth communication for GF Connect v0.9.2 has been changed…
If you, like me, find your development speed slowing down significantly when you have to rely on the available command line editors on the Raspberry Pi like 'nano', 'Emacs', 'Vim', etc. then maybe this blog post might help. Before moving on, I just want to make it clear that I…
There are a couple of ways you can setup a Raspberry Pi for running the GF Connect software which I have covered in previous posts. If you are new to the Raspberry Pi world, this guide should provide you with the needed steps to setup a fresh installation for controlling…
This is a small maintenance release for GF Connect to fix the following critical issues in the v0.9 release: Fixed an issue that didn't connect properly to Grainfather controller on a clean installFixed an issue that displayed "TypeError: Cannot read property 'stageTitles' of undefined" messages Download and Installation GF Connect…
GFConnect is now full featured and supports a full end-to-end brew session on the Grainfather including direct integration with the Brewfather batch list. The following features have been added since v0.5: Loading of brew session directly from BrewfatherFull timer controlDelayed heat controlDelayed start of brew sessionEnabling of sparge water progress…
In order to make testing and monitoring of the MQTT setup easier, I have installed Home Assistant which is an open source automation platform. This isn't necessary for the MQTT server but provides a web based management interface and also provides all kind of integrations with various other services. For…
In order to experiment with more integrations of my brewing system I am setting up a Mosquitto MQTT server which will provide the central infrastructure for more automation and information flow. Besides being used for brewing related things it is also an excellent backbone for use in home automation. I…
I have now added full brew session support to GF Connect for Node RED running on Raspberry Pi. This means that you can download a Batch JSON file from Brewfather, load this into GF Connect and directly start the brewing session on the Grainfather controller. In order to start a…
One of the nice features in the official Grainfather App is that it can provide notifications about important events during the ongoing brew session. This means for instance that you don't have to stand and watch the mash water reach the correct temperature, but can do other chores in another…
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