Hello everyone,
I’ve noticed that over the past few years, a whole series of threads have been started on the topic of “Implementing features to automate the brewing process”, such as the one by PlazzmiK from May 2021:
"How hard would it be for me (knowing some basic programming) to rewrite the Blocks | Brewblox 5 widget/block/module to implement a simple auto-temperature step based on the following:
Step 1 - 30° - 10 minutes
Step 2 - 40° - 20 minutes
Step 3 - 50° - 15 minutesPress Start, automation begins
Sets PID to 30° Waits till PID >= 30° (or close to, lets say 0.5 margin) Starts timer Timer goal reached Sets PID to 40° Waits till PID >= 40° (0.5 margin) Starts timer Timer goal reached Sets PID to 50° Waits till PID >= 50° (0.5 margin) …So basicly, instead of setting a time, setting a temp value based on a sensor and duration.
Add a basic start/pause/stop to it, this would safe me some timers, user errors and watching my brew."
or the one by Hellrazr from September 2020:
“Heya, not sure if there is a function like this allready. Is it possible to add a countdown timer widget. It doesent have to control anything, just to keep track of time passed. Maybe it could have a little alarm that can be configured when the timer reaches a defined setpoint.”.
An (audio) signal that can be placed at the end of a “block” would also be very helpful.
As I’ve seen, I’m by no means the only user who has this request.
Are there perhaps already options like this, and I just haven’t found them yet?
And I would be really thankful for information how this cam be done just using the Brewblox Software UI and Brewblox Spark 4 without touching the code which would request me to study IT and programming before.
Many thanks in advance for any information.
Kind regards,
Winfried