Earlier this year, I bought a BrewBuilt IceMaster Max 4 glycol chiller. I've really appreciated the ability to set a temperature on it and have it maintain it, pretty much regardless of ambient. But now I'm looking at brewing a Belgian Quad, and its fermentation schedule calls for increasing the temp by 1 deg F per day over the course of almost two weeks. Of course, I can just bump up the controller one degree every day--but where's the fun in that?
Temp control on this is just a matter of cycling the pump on and off to maintain the desired temp. So it seems to me that it shouldn't be too hard (I know, famous last words) to replace one of its built-in temp controllers with one that's a bit more sophisticated, which specifically means (at the moment) "can operate on a schedule." I suppose some kind of web interface would be good too, and probably monitoring of setpoint vs. actual over time.
I'm assuming there are DIY projects out there that do this, presumably with something like an Arduino, a ESP32, and/or a Raspberry Pi (and I can work with any of these), but I'm not sure what they would be. Any suggestions?
Edit: Some looking around has found a few projects that look like they would, or could be made to, do this. What I've run across so far are BrewPiLess (and thus by extension, presumably, BrewPi) and BierBot. The latter appears to rely on cloud control, which is a negative in my book, though not necessarily a deal-breaker. I'll keep looking, but feedback on these or others would be appreciated. I don't know how interested I am in "automate all the things" right now, but I don't know that I'm necessarily opposed to something that could do that.
I currently have a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W available, along with a few ESP32 boards and an Arduino Mega or two. I don't think I have an ESP8266 handy, though they're cheap enough I wouldn't mind buying one (or a few) if needed. I'm assuming I'd need to buy relays and the like.
Temp control on this is just a matter of cycling the pump on and off to maintain the desired temp. So it seems to me that it shouldn't be too hard (I know, famous last words) to replace one of its built-in temp controllers with one that's a bit more sophisticated, which specifically means (at the moment) "can operate on a schedule." I suppose some kind of web interface would be good too, and probably monitoring of setpoint vs. actual over time.
I'm assuming there are DIY projects out there that do this, presumably with something like an Arduino, a ESP32, and/or a Raspberry Pi (and I can work with any of these), but I'm not sure what they would be. Any suggestions?
Edit: Some looking around has found a few projects that look like they would, or could be made to, do this. What I've run across so far are BrewPiLess (and thus by extension, presumably, BrewPi) and BierBot. The latter appears to rely on cloud control, which is a negative in my book, though not necessarily a deal-breaker. I'll keep looking, but feedback on these or others would be appreciated. I don't know how interested I am in "automate all the things" right now, but I don't know that I'm necessarily opposed to something that could do that.
I currently have a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W available, along with a few ESP32 boards and an Arduino Mega or two. I don't think I have an ESP8266 handy, though they're cheap enough I wouldn't mind buying one (or a few) if needed. I'm assuming I'd need to buy relays and the like.
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