That was a quick delivery (at least in my head) ordered on the 21st May 2x I2c LCD adapters
I found that the code from here works with them
@eBay! http://r.ebay.com/3uwZAj
Monthly Archives: May 2013
more @brewpi Bank Holiday Musings
I’m sat here idly musing about conditioning beer in corny kegs in my @brewpi fridge. Since the beer probe can’t get into the keg and have the stabilising mass of the beer around it, the @brewpi tends to oscillate a bit. So the probe needs insulating, at first I thought of magnets embedded in some sort of insulation but these don’t stick very well to stainless steel. Maybe I could come up with a suction cup affair to reliably hold the insulation ? Insulating tape tends to come unstuck or leave sticky patches, maybe a big elastic band ?
Maybe the Brewpi needs a 1 probe point control mode either that or I just use the ST1000 for the conditioning fridge.. I think that I’ll muse some more over a beer from the shed 
#BrewDay Not
I had planned to have a brewday on this Bank Holiday Monday, but instead I’m having a Social Day…
Something has aggravated the old Back.
The recipe was to be this..
Although Since I was having trouble getting the Bastogne Yeast, I had to settle for
White Labs WLP500 – Trappist Ale Yeast
Once in the FV I was going to keep a tight control on the temperature
as it’s rumoured to a bit unwieldy , we’ll see …
Thats if the yeast is Ok as it’s been stored in the fridge for 3 weeks whilst waiting for Orange Peel !!
Hopefully i’ll get to it later in the week or next weekend 
I have also been tweaking the BrewPi web code to show me which system I am looking at.
I have changed the hostname of each system, found in /etc/hostname and also not forgetting to change it in /etc/hosts ..
I have two RaspberryPi controller BrewPi’s, one in a green Case and the other in a Black case so naturally they’re greenpi and blackpi 
I changed line 29 in the beer-panel.php to
<span id=”beername”><?php echo gethostname();?> Is Fermenting: <?php echo $beerName;?></span>
and also changed the index.php line 39 to be
<title><?php echo gethostname();?> reporting for duty!</title>
much better, I can now tell which is which.
new-old brew fridge
A family friend is getting a new fridge/freezer 
So next week end I will become the lucky benefactor and a second Beer fridge will spring into life….
Watch this space there may be conversion in progress for another fermenter or a conditioning setup …
DIY shield that I haven’t butchered
@brewpi DIY MKII
I have been Busy in the workshop, remaking the original DIY Brewpi !
It’s now in a similar case to my other BrewPi 
remade the front panel
and made a rats nest on the DIY shield board 
On this one I also decided to have a power switch and a resettable fuse
here are some inside shots
LCD with I2C controller
overview of SSR’s and 5V supply..
Now All I have to do is get my head around some C++ to try and add the I2C display into the Code 
More Spacious have I made a Tardis
Since insulating the walls and re arranging the work surfaces in the shed Several people have said that it seems Bigger…
Me in the TARDIS
BrewShed Update !
After the cold winter and harsh spring it’s time that I finished my shed,
I Removed All the existing worktops and started insulating..
After a days Work Half of the end walls were done…
and the worktop was back in place
Sunday Arrived and the B&Q at Thornbury, Bradford thwarted my plans,
they only had Green waterproof board in stock
I think it’d look very odd 1/2 green ….so I finished insulating the top 1/2 with Eco friendly insulation made from 88 plastic bottles
and then remade my CO2 board
