Introduction: MyBrewbot Operating Instructions

Congratulations and thank you for buying a MyBrewbot fermentation telemetry system. We hope you volition get great pleasance from using information technology and make some great beer in the serve.

We have tried to make these instruction manual as perfect and citywide A we can but we always welcome suggestions for advance. If you observe the stairs in sequence then you should have a trouble liberal install.

If not, then please develop in touch via email at information@mybrewbot.com

Regards and give thanks you.

Jeremy

Supplies

5v 2A Micro USB PSU

2.4ghz WiF Connection

MyBrewbot App

Step 1: What's in the Box?

Depending on the equipment you take purchased there will be a number of items in the box:

  1. The MyBrewbot Restrainer:
  2. Hub(s) for copulative multiple probes to the controller
  3. Temperature probes
  4. A pressure detector and 3m extension cable

The connectors on the box seat are atomic number 3 follows:

  • Front - USB power supply

Side: - Connectors

  • White JCT plug for relay or other digital input/output
  • Black 3.5mm Jack Socket - digital temperature probe/Hub
  • Green 3.5mm Jack Socket - integer temperature probe/Hub
  • Pink 3.5mm Jack Socket - analogue pressure sensor

On the tipto of the box at that place is a reset button and a condition LED

  • unary press cycles power
  • double press within 10 seconds resets the wifi connection

Whole tone 2: Preparing Your Network/wifi

The MyBrewbot controller lonesome works on 2.4ghz wifi networks.

If you have a dual band 5ghz/2.4ghz network then it Crataegus laevigata exist beneficial to seperate the deuce frequencies, if your router allows for this, thus that there is a seperate SSID for the 2.4ghz frequency. Feel has shown that this is the best way to get bouncy connections.

The controller does not work well if there are spaces or special characters in the SSID constitute. Avoid these if possible

SSID passwords should be alpha numeric and less than 30 characters extendible.

Step 3: Setting Up the App

Use a regular USB charging cable and a USB power supply that is rated 2.1A or over.

Get going the setup process with the accountant plugged into USB power entirely.

After a minute operating theatre so you will see the controller display a solidified blue-blooded LED light - this indicates that the controller is ready to pair with the covering. At this direct it has created an SSID called 'MyBrewbot' and can make up accessed via a browser barrelled at 192.168.4.1 if necessary.

If you let a probe or denary probes and the hub, leave these disconnected.

Go to the Malus pumila Store Beaver State Google Play and search for MyBrewbot. Download the application to your earpiece and vulnerable IT up.

Make sure that your smartphone is connected to the SSID you lack to connect the controller to and that information technology is a 2.4ghz connection. It can also be helpful if you turn off any 4g moveable data services.

You will be asked to provide an email address and a password. The email address is used to send information to you if you want to download your brewing data.

Once you give entered your netmail destination and password you will be asked to give the device a nominate. You can leave it as the default or ring it anything you look-alike.

Once you hold designated 'set up gimmick' you will be asked to select the SSID that the controller will link to and move into the watchword for that SSID. Mind with entering the correct password.

You will then follow asked which twist you want to connect to. You should see MyBrewbot in the leaning of SSIDs you are presented with. Pick out that and press OK.

The sort leave then evince you march on, and, if all the steps have been carried extinct successfully so you leave embody told that you are through with.

The previously blank shield will now start to populate itself with data and headings. Postponemen for things to settle depressed (usually a minute or so) and then you are good to go to the next tone.

If you are unable to read the device in the phone application then this could be dejected to a number of things:

1. Make indisputable that the network you are nerve-racking to connect the controller to is a 2.4 ghz meshing.

2. Make sure that your phone is happening the same network that you are trying to connect the controller to.

3. The restrainer is very particular when it comes to acceptable SSID names and passwords. If you deliver an SSID with an all numeric name Beaver State password, or one which contains non of import numeric characters then the controller will non connect.

4. If the SSID password is more than 31 characters long then the accountant will not connect.

Very Important! At the topmost of the System Settings check is a lock bar. if you don't slide this across to the left so you won't be capable to make whatsoever changes to the application program!

Pace 4: Setting Up the Controller

Get the latest Software program

Attend the System Settings tab.

At the top you testament see a red slide bar. This is the lock. Nobelium changes will atomic number 4 stored if this isn't unlocked. Drag this across to the left until it turns chromatic.

This is the lock away taproo and you demand to unlock the device each time before it will accept instruction manual. The lock is automatically practical every clock time you move away from the MyBrewbot app.

Underneath the lock up legal community you will see information on the installed software and the latest variation of software in stock on the MyBrewbot server. If these are not the same then you will pauperism to install the latest software.

Scroll down until you insure 'Gimmick Admin'.

Select 'Update S/W'.

The right hand carte testament change to 'Update S/W', touch that and select 'Update S/W'.

After few seconds you will interpret the screen ratting you that the download has started.

Wait for the screen to refresh itself erst the download has completed.

Once you are happy that the block out has refreshed, perform a hard reset by removing world power from the controller, waiting 10 seconds and then powering up once more.

Step 5: LED Signals

The LED along the controller wish tell you what mode information technology is in. The LED signals are as follows:

  1. Two short flashes all 5 seconds. Gimmick fully operational.
  2. Solid state ashen light – double reset pressed to reset wifi.
  3. Continuant short flashes. Controller is wait to be connected to the application. MyBrewbot SSID established.
  4. 3 flashes every 10 seconds. Controller not well-connected to the internet. Check router and internet connection
  5. Solid gentle for 10 seconds, off for 10 seconds. Controller non connected to your router.

Step 6: Setting Heavenward Probes

Very Important! At the top of the System Settings tab is a lock bar. if you don't slide this across to the left then you won't be able to make any changes to the application!

If you have got temperature probe/probes for your MyBrewbot then now is the time to register the probes.

If you have more than two probes to register, then connect the hub to the controller with IT's jack. The jack plug goes into either the green or black socket. The pinkish socket is for the hale sensor.

If you retributive have to a lesser degree 3 probes and so they can be plugged straightaway into the controller. Apiece probe has a unique name and address which is registered with the controller during setup – so it doesn't matter which hub/accountant socket you plug information technology in to.

Bear in mind though that without the hub the removal of probes from the controller will make IT reset, and if you practise that double inside 10 seconds the wifi testament reset as well as the controller.

Insert your first probe into the hub/comptroller. IT is important to do this one probe at a time.

Unlock the UI and go to the Sensors tab.

After a few seconds you should see a probe address (eg 28713755a0057) appear in the table below.

Blue-ribbon the Fermenter you want to allocate it to from the Fermenter tab at the top of the page.

Touch the new probe in the window. It's address volition appear in the poke into name box at the top of the screen. You can edit this to give it a 'user friendly' name (eg Beer F1). Press transport.

Next assign it to a task. Beer, Ambient, Air, Common Ambient or Grassroots Air.

You can only have two probes per fermenter . If you want to use a 'common' probe (eg air) and you already have a beer and ambient poke into assigned to a fermenter then you will need to allocate it to a different fermenter which has little than ii probes already attached.

If you have both a Tilt and a beer probe you fanny choose which you want to command the temperature.

Go to the selections menu on the fermenters tab, scroll down until you see 'Poke into Control' operating room 'Beer Restraint', select the carte item and printing press OK to change see to it to your desired method.

The probes possess a shrink roll up wrap up over the join between the cable and probe. This can be safely stripped without flexible the waterproof connector which is protected by a rosin bond if you need to fit uncomparable into a thermowell.

You can change a probes assignment within a Fermenter Group by clean reassigning it (eg from Beer to Ambient). However, if you want to reassign it to a different Fermenter then you leave hold to deregister the probe, wait until the poke into Idaho (28xxxxxxxx) appears in the screen, modification fermenter so reassign it to a task.

If you forget to portion a examine's task then it's distinguish will appear in each Fermenter put over as you change fermenters.

If, for whatsoever rationality, you get into difficulties with the probes then it is best to:

1. Polish of the power from the controller

2. Remove all the sensors from the controller

3. Major power the controller up

4. Unlock the UI

5. Attend the sensors tab

6. Use the 'Assigned To' dropdown to delete all probes.

7. Introduce the probes one at a time and cite and put them to tasks.

Step 7: Setting Raised Tilts

Rattling Important! At the top of the System Settings tabloid is a lock bar. if you don't slip up this across to the left then you won't live able to make any changes to the application!

Setting heavenward your Tilt devices couldn't be easier.

When setting ahead it's good practise to try to remove as many other bluetooth devices (fitbits, bluetooth speakers etc) from wherever you are setting up.

Take your first Tilt and place it in a glass of piss. Go to the sensors screen and scroll down to the Tilt settings area.

Select the colour of the Tilt you want to register and assign it to the beer undertaking

That colour Tilt is now registered to that Fermenter and will provide temperature information to the MyBrewbot accountant. It will also collect the SG data and send this to the cloud.

If you select Tilt Temperature operate in the Fermenter settings tab and so that Tilt bequeath likewise control your heating/cooling. Bear in mind that the Tilt only measures in hale degrees Fahrenheit - so if you want much accurate temperature readings IT's superior to use a probe.

If you have a second Tilt then repeat the process assigning it to the next Fermenter using the same method acting.

To switch a Tilt from one fermenter to another first deregister the Tilt by using the dropdown corner and selecting 'Deregister'. Once that has done then re-assign it to the new fermenter.

Standardization

Scroll down the Sensors tab until you see Tilt Calibration.

Select the Angle you want to graduate.

Get temperature and SG readings of the liquid you have your Cant over in and enter these into the respective fields in the calibration concealment.

The restrainer will do the maths for you - so put down the temperature as you read it from your thermometer.

Make a point that you inscribe the SG number as a whole amount. So if your hydrometer reading is 1.065 then enter 1065.

Be sure to press send after you make for each one entry. The beam button is normally found along your keypad screen in the underside right.

Changing Tilts

If you need to swop your tilts around surgery reassign them and then make sure that you play along this procedure.

Remove all tilts from your fermenters and stand them upright so that they switch off.

Go to the Sensors tab connected the app and deregister each tilt.

Erst the tilts have been deregistered then introduce them one by one to your fermenters ensuring that you assign each tilt to a fermenter earlier introducing the following tilt. Failure to do this English hawthorn result in the control MCU becoming overloaded.

Step 8: Setting Upfield Smartplugs

Rattling Probative! At the top of the Arrangement Settings tab is a lock bar. if you don't slide this crosswise to the left then you North Korean won't be able to make any changes to the application!

The controller will work with most of the cheap smartplugs on the market. We have had little succeeder with the types of Smartplugs that have a 'Master' switch on. They mostly appear to experience a different and incompatible chip inside. Also, the controller will not work with WiFi enabled plugs. We regularly update our webpages with Smartplugs that consume been used with success and recommend getting those if you can.

Once the app and data from the restrainer has moneyed, go to the Smartplugs tab.

The Smartplugs tab key has a 'Guide' function. If you electric switch this on then the controller will charg you step away step notifications to your phone.

Telephone dial Plugs

If you have 'telephone dial' plugs (these have two dials on the back of the plugs) then you won't need to program the controller. If you select 'Telephone dial' as the Smartplug type and 'Codeset 1' then the plugs will act upon out of the box. If you take over a conflict with other dial plugs in your family (or neighbours) then change the top telephone dial to 2, 3 or 4 and choose 'Codeset x' depending connected the numerate you set the top telephone dial to. The lower telephone dial refers to the plug's functionality. 1 = Hot F1, 2 = Cold F1, 3 = Hot F2, 4 = Cold F2 etc.

The screen will change to the default plug settings for the plug you have elect.

Programmable Plugs

If you have other plugs then check the manufacturers instructions to determine how these work. Generally at that place are two categories:

1. Plugs which shape up in the programmed state

2. Plugs which when exponent is applied go into a programmable res publica for 30 seconds (or so) before returning to their programmed state

If your plugs are class 2 it is important to piss sure that you NEVER power up the plugs whilst the controller is on and sending control signals. If you coiffure then on that point is every gamble the the plug will get programmed with the wrong code as it starts up in 'program' fashion.

Programming the controller

  • Prize 'Controller' as the Smartplug type
  • Squeeze the Program tab
  • The screen will then ask you which secure it is going to learn the code for
  • Select the plug
  • Take the mode for the plug (connected operating theatre off) . The sort testament change and ask you to hold down the button on the remote that corresponds to the on/off instruction
  • Grip the outback adpressed to the controller just above the white JST socket . The receiver in the controller doesn't have much range sol it's important to keep the removed closing curtain to the box.
  • Once the comptroller starts to incur the remote signal the UI will tell you that it is receiving. Keep the remote button pressed down until the display returns to normal.
  • Repetition for the remaining book of instructions.

Step 9: Place setting Up Brewing Software

Very Authoritative! At the top of the Organization Settings tab is a lock bar. if you don't slide this across to the odd then you North Korean won't be competent to construct any changes to the application!

The controller will spill to both Brewfather and Brewer's Friend. It sends information all 15 minutes.

Move to the Brewfather/Brewer's friend app on your phone/pc

Brewfather

  • Go to your Brewfather account and log-in
  • Transcript the logging ID and enter it into the settings screen
  • Switch the service on
  • Select 'Settings and scroll dispirited to the MyBrewbot icon

Brewer's Friend

  • Go to your Brewer's Friend account and log in
  • Pass the the integrations section.
  • Copy the API Key
  • Enter the API key information technology into the App's settings screen
  • Turn logging on to kickoff sending data
  • Await 15 minutes for the teem to beryllium recognized on Brewer's Protagonist
  • Attribute the stream to your beer in Beer maker's Friend

Turn Brewfather logging happening to part with sending information.

Step 10: Setting Up the Pressure Sensor

Very Important! At the top of the Organisation Settings yellow journalism is a lock chamber barroom. if you don't slide this crossways to the left then you won't be able to gain any changes to the coating!

The pressure sensor is a 1/8" NPT Stainless Insistency Transducer Transmitter Sensor 0-4.5V and is rated to 100 pounds per square inch It replaces the analogue dial you may already have on your spunding system. You may need to fit a reducing/enlarging adaptor to your existing spunding setup.

If you privation to build your own spunding valve then thither is an fantabulous guide here. Spunding Valve Instructions.

The pressure sensor goes into the pink jack socket. Connect the sensor to the extension cable and plug this into the pinkish socket. The controller will alone support one hale sensor. Do non be tempted to function a hub to try and increase the number. It won't work and may damage the controller.

In order to nonplus validated readings information technology is important to calibrate the sensor. It is also important that you calibrate for entirely three values. Failure to do and so will ease up variant, inaccurate readings.

This is finished past pressurizing a keg to 20 psi, connecting your spunding valve, selecting the 20 PSI setting on the UI and so pressing the 'Start Calibration' clit. The controller will then take a serial of 15 sample readings at 20 second intervals, average these taboo and store the calibration setting for 20 PSI. The 'Start Standardization' button will revert to green when the process has fin de siecle. The process, per setting will take a few minutes for each one.

Repeat this stone's throw for 15, 10, 5 0 pounds per square inch by reducing the insistence in the keg on for each one successive calibration.

IT is imperative that you calibrate for each pressure setting. Failure to bash so leave result in very strange results.

Mistreat 11: ISpindel Setup

The new restrainer software No yearner pulls data from Ubidots. Instead the controller listens for the iSpindel on your local WiF. This makes the whole connection more stable and secure.

To set the iSpindel up for the controller:

1. Remove the iSpindel body from the tube.

2. Double tap the readjust push to send the iSpindel into configuration mode

3. Connect to the iSpindel SSID

4. Point your web browser at 192.168.4.1

5. Pick out the configuration option in the iSpindel carte

6. Scroll down to the 'Serve Type' entry box. Select 'HTTP'

7. Insert the comptroller's ip address from your controller's system setting foliate into the waiter plow box

8. Set the server port to 80

9. Specify the host URL to '/iSpindel' (capitalise the S in iSpindel).

10. Check all your other settings

11. Press save.

We recommend an update interval of 60 seconds – but remember, the Thomas More often the iSpindel updates, the shorter the battery life testament be.

Once the iSpindel has been set up it will start to join with the MyBrewbot controller and send data. Once the controller recognises that it has an iSpindel committed it will notify you to assign it a role.

1. Unlock the UI

2. Fling to the Sensors tab and select the fermenter you desire to depute the iSpindel to.

3. Gyre down to the iSpindel section

4. Tint the 'iSpindel bring up' dropdown and choice the iSpindel from the list of name calling

5. Assign the iSpindel to Beer

6. Attend the settings page and exercise set the temperature and/or taxonomic group gravity controls.

Step 12: Fermenter Setup

Very Most-valuable! At the top of the System of rules Settings tab is a lock ginmill. if you don't slide this across to the leftish then you won't be able to realise any changes to the application!

The fermenter setup screen is largely someone explanatory. Things to notation:

  1. Data refreshes every bit you move from fermenter to fermenter. If you wishing to refresh the information of the fermenter you are currently screening you make non need to switch fermenters, just rap the fermenter tab key. You do not need to unlock the UI to arrange this.
  2. You will need to fight 'send' connected your phones keyboard to send the changes you want to realize to the controller
  3. You volition need to switch the fermenter control on in the settings tab for it to start to control the smartplugs
  4. 'Kickoff FT' is for those who want to guess ferment using the ambient probe. it just clears the stored algorithmic program information ready for a new work

Step 13: Profile Setup

The MyBrewbot controller can foot race profiles for you. You can have in the lead to 15 steps in a profile. The controller will break each step pop into hours and vary the set temperature each hour.

It has 4 mistreat types:

1. Metre over Temperature

  • This step will run the amount of time specified and and then move onto the next abuse

2. Temperature over Meter

  • This step will escape for a minimal of the quantity of time specified but will only move onto the next step if the target temperature has been reached

3. Specific Gravity

  • This step will run for a borderline of the timke specified but will only move onto the next step once the target SG has been reached

4. Free Rise

  • This step allows you to set a storey and cap temperature and will keep the beer between those parameters until the nominal time has elapsed. It volition then impress onto the next step

Profile Modes

The controller can fly the coop your profile in 2 modes, test or live. Test executes a step every 10 seconds and enables you to see how the profile behaves. Live way executes the hourly portion of a step every minute.

Creating a Profile

  • Unlock the UI
  • Select the fermenter you want to produce a visibility for
  • Name the profile
  • Select the stride posture in the table (the UI defaults to the first step)
  • Select the step type
  • Get into the starting temperature, end temperature, no of years (the UI accepts decimals for piece days) and Seaborgium if necessary
  • Touch the next empty course in the remit to recruit the next dance step
  • When you have input all of your steps you can save the profile in one of the 5 storage slots for sale

Running a Visibility

  • Select the modality
  • Push the 'Run' dropdown
  • Purpose the stop and pause buttons to interrupt a profile and the Fwd/Rwd buttons to go forward or rearwards

Visibility Progress

Profile advance is shown at the bottom of the Fermenter Screen

Step 14: Information Screen

Mistreat 15: Charts Screen

The Charts screen displays sensor data from the controller.

Points to banker's bill:

1. Information is only sent to the charts screen when a fermenter is switched on.

2. Because our UI does not have a secondary Axis, circumstantial gravity can be aforethought as a trend against temperature, or as a plot exploitation the decimal contribution of the special somberness or as an actual .

3. Actual values for each plotted sensor are shown above the graph.

4. Series to glucinium charted are controlled from the worst of the settings test

5. You can opt the series and the source (eg f1, F2 etc). This makes it possible to combine data from different fermenters. EG you could plat a chart with the beer and ambient temperatures from two fermenters at the same time.

Measure 16: Resetting the WLAN

If for any reason you need to reset the WiF connection happening the controller (perhaps you have moved theater, have lent the controller to a friend or transformed your router's SSID or Password) so it's a simple matter to reset it past pressing the reset release on the top of the controller (just in front of the LED) twice within 10 seconds.

Alternatively, go to the systems settings tab, select the 'Readjust' dropdown and select item 1, 'Reset Wifi'. Once you have done that do a intemperate readjust.

This will pull in the WiFi settings and you will indigence to go done the app setup process in order to link up the controller to the new WiFi.

Don't worry, your data and all your settings are well-kept.

To reset the WiFi:

Open the app, you volition look a red dot in the spinning top right corner indicating that the app isn't connected to a controller

Touch the red dot and take the device setup.

In one case you rich person selected 'entrap device' you will be asked to select the SSID that the restrainer will link to and enter the password for that SSID. Take care with entry the correct password.


You will then be asked which device you wishing to connect to. You should see MyBrewbot in the list of SSIDs you are presented with. Select that and press OK. The screen will then show you progress, and, if all the stairs have been carried exterior successfully and then you volition make up told that you are done.

Step 17: Updating the Controller Software

Go to the Settings tab. At the best you will see a red slide bar. Drag this crosswise to the left until it turns green. This is the lock Browning automatic rifle and you need to unlock the device before it will swallow book of instructions.

Underneath the lock taproo you bequeath see information on the installed software system and the latest version of software available happening the MyBrewbot waiter. If these are non the same then you wish ask to set u the latest software.

Before you install refreshing software you should always perform a hard reset. Disconnect the USB, hold back 10 seconds so plug in once more. It's not good practice to install new software if you (or a willing assistant) are not on hand to do a gruelling reset if necessary after the update.

  • Scroll downwards until you see 'Device Admin'.
  • Select 'Update S/W'.
  • The large button to justly wish immediately change colour to red.
  • Press the red button.
  • Afterward a some seconds you will see the screen ratting you that the download has started.
  • Wait for the screen to refresh itself once the download has completed.
  • Once you are happy that the screen has refreshed, perform a hard readjust by removing power from the accountant, ready and waiting 10 seconds and then powering up over again.

If for some reason the new-sprung software causes issues on your device then you can force the control to revert to a known safe and stable version of the computer software away performing a hard readjust, unlocking the UI, going to the fermenter settings tab and typing '123456789' into the beer name of any fermenter and pressing send.

If your wifi signal is weak at the controller (<= -75) then you May need to do a PC/Mac software update.

  1. Make a point your PC is associated to the assonant netqwork as the comptroller.
  2. Gunpoint your browser at the controllers informatics handle (shown happening the system settings tab) and add /update as the suffix. EG 192.168.1.68/update.
  3. Click on the 'download the latest software system' text edition.
  4. Choose the lodge you just downloaded
  5. Press the 'Update MyBrewbot' clitoris.

Wait a few moments and the screen will change to read that the software has been updated.

Step 18: System Reports

There are a number of system reports on the System Settings tab. Scroll down the page until you experience a drop down titled 'System Reports'. Here you can select from a variety of reports:

1. Settings Summary.

A summary of the chief settings on the accountant. It also includes your controller's IP address which can be accustomed operate the (limited) web UI

2. Smartplug codes.

A listing of the codes that are existence accustomed operate your Smartplugs. If you see a replicate code then it means that your controller programming has been programmed wrong from your remote. Buy the farm cover to the Smartplugs apparatus and rectify matters.

3. Probe Status.

Injured probe information showing temperature

4. Diagnostics

This report will show you the main control sequences of the MyBrewbot as IT does them;. Useful for diagnostics from our end.

5. Overhaul Messages

A future feature to livelihood you informed of other package etc

6. Health retard

Support information that will help the States in the event of ironware issues

7. Boot Log

Again, largely support information enabling us to determine issues

8. Tilt settings

Raw Tilt info showing temperature, sg and calibration data

9. Timer Status

N/A

10. Brewage SW Status

Error codes from data submissions to Brewfather/Brewer's Friend

11. Brew SW Particular.

More detailed data relating to the higher up

12 iSpindel

iSpindel submission/retireval computer error codes

Step 19: Repurpose a Spare MyBrewbot Controller to MyBrewBuddy

If you bought more than 1 MyBrewbot to control more than 2 fermenters you can repurpose your second controller as a MyBrewBuddy and check all data in a uniform interface. Please observe that both devices must be on the same wifi network.

  1. Make sure that you have the latest firmware happening your 'donor' controller
  2. Unlock the UI
  3. Attend the fermentation settings screen and in whatever beer name typecast MyBrewBuddy
  4. Ensure that the capitalization is exactly as per the instruction
  5. Press broadcast. You leave consider that the beer call reverts to the previous constitute and the MyBrewBuddy beer name is replaced.
  6. Kick the bucket to the system settings tab and update the software
  7. You will know if the MyBrewBuddy software has been installed because the telephone set app will no longer work for that controller
  8. Follow the MyBrewBuddy setup instruction manual (Next).

Step 20: Setting Up MyBrewBuddy

MyBrewBuddy allows you to reach those 'hard to vex' places in your brew space. It uses the same WiFi network Eastern Samoa your MyBrewbot controller and sends and receives instructions over the network.

Here's how to set it up:

Force up MyBrewbuddy.

Open ahead your phone connections and anticipate a MyBrewbuddy SSID. You whitethorn have to wait a couple on of minutes for that to happen

Connect to the MyBrewbuddy SSID. It may ask you for a word - it is 12345678.

Sign into the network.

IT should pioneer a web browser page on your sound

If it doesn't then point your web browser at 192.168.4.1/_ac

Stir the 3 parallel bars in the top right of the screen and ensnare your normal SSID AP. This must be the same as the MyBrewbot control.

Wait until a hot web page opens. This may take 30 seconds Oregon so.

Once you have done that take note of the IP address - you will need this for the MyBrewbot settings foliate.

Disconnection your phone from the MyBrewbuddy SSID and reconnect your phone to your average SSID

Ingenuous up the MyBrewbot app.

Go to the system settings pill, unlock it and go into the MyBrewbuddy IP address into the field.

Switch to 'Collecting'. Postponemen.

Information technology may take a couple of minutes for a connection to be orthodox. The LED to the right of the connect button will illuminate.

Introduce probes/tilts one at once and register them in the app in the sane direction.

Stone's throw 21: Manual Reflashing

The controller can be reflashed manually. Usually this will exist recommended as a effect of a support call.

The chuck-full reflash naught file can be found here together with book of instructions for reflashing and all the necessity drivers. We recommend using a windows pc - but if you only purpose a Mac then the full zip file can personify ground here.

Read and follow the instructions cautiously.

Step 22: Troubleshooting - Unable to Record Device in the Earphone Coating

If you are incapable to register the gimmick in the call up practical application then this could be devour to a number of things:

1. Solid blue Light-emitting diode light - this indicates that the restrainer is ready to partner off with the application. At this point it has created an SSID called 'MyBrewbot' and tin can atomic number 4 accessed via a browser pointed at 192.168.4.1 if necessary.

2. Make a point that the network you are difficult to connect the controller to is a 2.4 GHz electronic network.

3. Make sure that your phone is on the indistinguishable meshwork that you are trying to connect the controller to.

4. The controller is precise particular when IT comes to acceptable SSID names and passwords. If you experience an SSID with an all denotative figure or countersign, or one which contains non alpha numeric characters then the controller will not connect.

5. If the SSID password is more 31 characters long then the controller will non touch base.

Step 23: Troubleshooting - Faulty Probes

If you see a temperature reading of -127C or 85C (or their Fahrenheit equivalents) then thither is a problem with the probe. 9 times stunned of ten information technology's Down to a dingy mariner plug.

Power down the controller and take away the probes from the hub/controller and remove the hub from the controller.

Using a soft/dry fabric wipe the jack plugs carefully. Re-tuck the probes into the hub/controller, power it up and see if that has resolved matters.

There are two probe reports on the system settings tab neglect down. The first, 'Temperature Probes', shows the discovered probes at a high resolution temperature setting. The second, 'Probe Search' looks for probes at a lower resolution.

If you fanny see your probes and their temperatures in the low closure report but not in the high resolution report then it is most likely that your controller is underpowered. This rump be resolved by either finding a PSU with a higher ampage (but no high than 5 volts) or aside balancing the probes across the green and Joseph Black jackstones. If you have 4 probes plugged into a hub and no probes in the opposite jackstones socket then try on moving one of the probes to the devoid jack socket.

Step 24: Troubleshooting - Tilt Connection

Thither are two main issues regarding connecting the Tilt:

1. Signal posture - if you are having difficulty with getting Tilt readings then think about repositioning the controller. Either fix it inside your fermentation fridge operating theater placement it so that it is approximately level with the position of the Tilt in the fridge. experiment until you get the best RSSI signal (shown higher up the Tilt Colour LED on the Fermenter data screen.

2. Interference - if there are a good deal of Bluetooth devices or so try out to quash their number. The receiver picks up all the BLE data being transmitted and this fundament affect public presentation.

If you are getting left over operating theater nobelium readings IT is deserving checking to make a point that you haven't inadvertently set a calibration parametric quantity the criminal way. remember, the controller does the mathematics - you just have to enter the readings as you have taken them - but with the SG reading converted to a whole number (1.016 becomes 1016)

Step 25: Troubleshooting - Brewing Software system Connection

The main reason for nonstarter is that the Authentication ID is wrong. You may have accidentally transcribed a wrong character or there might be a spurious space somewhere in the string. Double up check it and essa once more.

Feel for tells United States that the best room to successfully input the code is to simulate the authentication code from the brewing software splasher into an email. Send the email to your phone and past transcript and paste the code into the UI.

You rear end check to visualize what the error codes being returned from the brewage software are aside running the Brew SW status and point reports from the System Settings screen. Bear in head that the accountant only sends data every 15 minutes so you will need to wait for the next cycle to complete before you come across any information in the report.

Step 26: Troubleshooting - WiFi Extenders

WiFi extenders can be very useful - but they can likewise enter an added level of complexity to the setup.

If you can register and streak your controller without some issues, Great! However, if you experience difficulties then here are some suggestions from other users:

1. Try making your extender's SSID the one as your main SSID

2. Check that it is in 2.4ghz mode

3. Do not use solely numeric characters equally either the SSID or password

4. Act not use any exceptional characters or spaces

Stone's throw 27: Earlier Version Changeover Kit

If you have an earlier version of the controller and then there is a conversion kit which can be purchased.

Conversion is largely a 'plug and play' exercise unless you have a controller with set probes. In which case you will need to solder jack plugs onto your existing probes or purchase untried probes.

  1. Unscrew the old controller boxwood.
  2. Remove the MCU (giant break off) and the BLE transmitter receiver,
  3. Open the new comptroller chassis and plug the BLE chip into the board.
  4. Ballyhoo the MCU into the board - it goes in a higher place the BLE chip. It should human face forward and then that the USB socket marries heavenward to hole on the front of the box.
  5. Plug in the 433mhz tx and rx chips. The 3 pin chip goes in the 3 pin socket and the 4 pin bit goes in the 4 pin socket.
  6. Attach the box top to the chassis. Check that the reset button operates - you will hear/feel a lean click when you urge it as it engages with the MCU clitoris. If it doesn't hire properly then raw the box and slightly raise the mcu. Rehear.
  7. Screw the box tip onto the build.

Once the whole is up and running go to the Fermenter settings page and eccentric '900007' into one of the beer names and press send. This will download the software package for the Incoming Gen controller.

Footprint 28: Wiring Probes / Press Sensor

If you have bought 'solder yourself' probes then you will have got a poke into and a 3.5mm Jack-tar plug which you will need to solder onto the probe cable erstwhile you make wired it into your fermentation sleeping room.

Mind to make good connections and avoid shorting some of the wires.

Thither is a wiring schematic shown above

If you want to buy your own probes from other than MyBrewbot then you will need to ensure that you buy legitimate (non clones) DS18B20 probes and ensure that they are bound as per these instructions.

The same wiring holds true for pressure sensors if you corrupt your own.

Step 29: Sideloading the MyBrewbot 2 App to Android 10+ Phones

Here's a hurried guide along how to sideload MyBrewBot on Android 10+ phones

  1. Start the Settings app
  2. Either search for "Set u Anon. apps" or (on my phone at to the lowest degree), navigate to Passwords & Security department -> Privacy -> Extraordinary App Get at -> Install Unknown Apps.-
  3. Choice your browser, in my case Chrome.
  4. Turn on "Allow from this source".
  5. Download the MyBrewbot 2 apk file from here: MyBrewbot 2 APK
  6. Tell your browser that you want to open the download and confirm you want to install the app.
  7. Important: Go stake to the settings app again and *turn off* the ability for Chromium-plate to install unknown apps.

Step 30: Downloading CSV Information

When you opt to download the information on your brew you volition exist sent an email to a link with three files. Download the files and put them somewhere safe.

If you open the files you will be given with Unix based information, including a Unix date. This can be a bit daunting, so in prescribe to help the process we have a macro instruction enabled Excel Spreadsheet here MyBrewbot Data

Download it, open it ahead and turn to the first yellow journalism. This leave guide you on the process to import your CSV files and display your data in an amalgamated format.

For any spreadsheet wizards unstylish in that location, if you have any ideas, then send the finished article to us here at Mybrewbot.

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