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Use an ESP8266 to replace RPI and Arduino. Running BrewPi without Pi, therefore, BrewPi-Less
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Hydrom (hydrom.io) integration with BrewPiless #409

Open danestead opened 10 months ago

danestead commented 10 months ago

Hi,

Trying to get my Hydrom (hydrom.io) wifi hydrometer, that is similar to the iSpindel, integrated with my BrewPiless. I've activated iSpindel in the Brewpiless settings and it is reporting temperature and tilt angle but it's not calculating a gravity.

Does anyone know what I need to do?

Thanks.

danestead commented 10 months ago

Update: I've been doing some research. I'm not super computer savvy when it comes to coding etc. so it's all a little confusing to me.

I think my Hydrom is sending the Plato reading to BrewPiless by using the /gravity URL specified in the iSpindel setup instructions for BrewPiless. I've read that Plato will be ignored. I think this is probably my problem.

In the Hydrom instructions (https://instruction.hydrom.io/readme/connect_to_mqtt) you can setup an MQTT publisher. It specifies various different values that it can transmit, including the /gravity value. There is a /tilt_SG parameter that transmits Specific Gravity, so I think I need to somehow get BrewPiless to recognise that.

Can someone help me get this setup? I'm able to edit the firmware in Visual Studio Code if that is what will be needed to get this working. Untitled-1

danestead commented 10 months ago

I've found a workaround. By letting BPL calculate the SG it all works.