Not exactly sure what happened here but I have a guess. I was running a ramp down profile that landed at 68F, then I turned off the profile and tried to set the temperature to 70F. I now recall a dialog asking me to confirm the temperature as 29C / 70F. Not thinking in C at the time, I confirmed it. I also saw the carboy icon change to the 70F target. Next day I checked to see, it was at 84.2F (29C). Why are dialogs even asking me about temperature in C if I set the system to F?
Is there some log I can export to figure out what happened so I don’t do it again? Thankfully this is US-05 which is pretty temperature tolerant and I’m already 3 days into a pretty healthy fermentation, so beer is probably still good.
It took me quite a while to figure out what actions you could have taken and how you got a dialog with C and F values.
When a setpoint profile is disabled or when a normal setpoint is enabled, we don’t do any conversions or apply old values.
The only scenario I could think of for you to create this behavior is this:
You use quick actions to apply the beer setpoint
In this quick action you have a value in Celsius with a confirmation dialog
The dialog says ‘your current value is 70F’, please confirm the setting of 29C
You clicked yes because you interpreted ‘current value’ as the setting to be applied instead of the currently active setting
Things we can do to remedy this:
Clarify the wording of the dialog
Always convert values to the chosen temperature format. Note that it is not possible to create a value in quick settings in Celsius if the system setting is Fahrenheit. It is only possible to create/have it before you switch to Fahrenheit.
We don’t create a Quick Actions widget anymore for new users, because we made a better alternative.
To use it, create a ‘Temp Control Assistant’ widget and assign it to your existing PIDs and Setpoints.
I can confirm I am still using The Quick Actions widget. I had played around with the Temp Control Assistant, then lost it when I had to update through this twisted path: Ferment graph broke on update to 2021/02/25 release. I had been meaning to add it back but hadn’t gotten back to it yet.
That dialog looks pretty familiar. However, the other weird thing is that I’m pretty confident I entered 70F when I switched to constant temp control mode and I distinctly remember that the carboy icon showed a set point of 70F. The 29 F must have somehow come from a stale setting from my last fermentation. I had a Kveik strain fermenting at a constant 85F (29.44C). So maybe the 29.44 was rounded down to 29 and (for whatever strange reason) was used.
