Further adventures with #HomeAssistant and #ESPhome show that a Dallas 1-wire temperature sensor can be wired up via a 4K7 and it just works! Greenhouse temperature now monitored, option to send "It's bloody cold out here you know" messages enabled. NZ-compliant wifi socket for the heater on order...
@vik you might also see if you can use a BLE device to measure temperature over #esphome. That should satisfy your hope of running a long time off a single CR2032 battery.
when buying coffee beans instead of ground coffee, you come across all sorts of "notes"
I understand fruit or floral or nutty notes (even acidic and clean notes)
but the whole "gourmet" branding has given us more delicious notes that must disappoint the buyers expecting fancy flavored coffee: Chocolate, Berry, Honey, Spice, Caramel... 🙄
@HoustonDog@coffee well, depending on how you see it, perhaps it’s a self serving way of selling off a large amount of coffee they’ve gambled on or a selfish passion to introduce new tastes to the palates of their followers.
DiFluid lets you visually analyse and identify the micron size of coffee grinds, using it's app, your smartphone camera, and a printable disk. And they offer it more or less free of charge (you can download and use the app at no charge, but you really should also buy their scale).
Do you KNOW the work I go through now with a Kruve sifter to check grind sizes for our reviews? It is wasteful, it takes forever, and it isn't terribly accurate either. This cannot be any less accurate, and it's WAY easier.
@coffeegeek@coffee@espresso thanks for the tip. would love you to do a comparison between this app and others like iOS “Coffee Grinder” that doesn’t require a calibration paper.
@coffeegeek@coffee@espresso surely you can find someone in your cadre on the dark side or who will loan you some ancient contraband iOS device for testing in the interests of coffee science ☕️
@coffeegeek@coffee@espresso I humbly did not mean to imply Android was the dark side, but that iOS might be! Good to see that she’s finally seen the light.all that espresso you’ve been feeding her must have finally helped her to seen the previous error in her ways!
I'm thinking of starting a project soon that needs a niche of communication which LoRa fits perfectly. However, I'm still a little confused about the regulations around the standard.
I know The Things Network implements duty cycle restrictions. I won't be using the network - but is there also regulations on the band as a whole? I'm in Australia, so it's the 915-928mhz range.
@mightyspaceman the duty restrictions vary by country, but they are generally part of the local law about using the spectrum, so you’ll have to abide by them for all #lora usage. This is not something TTN specific.
@fetchezlavache go to the river and pick out two hefty looking candidates. You’ll be the envy of @coffee lovers everywhere who have spent too much less satisfactory results
@coffeegeek@smallerdemon@espresso@coffee my checks are blank because the account is bare 💰 I suppose the pursuit of espresso is like boating 🛶 as they say in the marine upkeep industry “bring another thousand” ☕️
The "Cheat Sheet" is a new feature on all our First Looks at CoffeeGeek, and one of the things we do with that prominent space is promote independent, third party reviews of the products. This is done without any prior knowledge of these websites (ie, no collusion).
We do it because we want you to read, support and share the hard work other indie-website owners are doing to write about good coffee and espresso.
@coffeegeek@coffee@espresso kudos on a thorough writeup. I take it (due to the lack of mention in your article) that this grinder doesn’t include a plasma generator given the price point.
@coffeegeek@coffee@espresso I think my key feature request for a new grinder would be a tardis or portal for time travel. Somehow conical burrs should be replaced with worm gears!
@jevidl@coffeegeek@coffee@espresso if they add AI, maybe we don’t need the coffee anymore. And the server centers can happily consume all the water resources without any pesky human competitors.
Our First Look for the Fellow Opus Multipurpose grinder -- our first ever review of a Fellow Product (long story) -- drops later this morning, on Wednesday.
Though it is the first of our "shorter" First Looks, it still has over 60 photos uploaded for the article, and about 3,200 words written.
Stovetop Roast #1309: Honduras HG
The post-roast inspectors have not identified any foreign matter in today's roast. This roast developed a tad bit faster (30 seconds to a minute) than the last time I roasted beans from the same batch using the same profile two weeks ago. This was probably due to the roastery (AKA the kitchen) being a couple degrees warmer. The inspectors did find 46.5g of defects (including peaberries). #CoffeeRoasting@coffee
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I know James Hoffmann, in a few videos now, heavily suggests doing the RDT (ross droplet technique) on coffee in single dose grinders; indeed, in one video, he heavily suggests doing this 3x as much to get, as he says 'better anti static results". He even demos it on a DF64 Gen 2 in his Best grinders under £500.
But he's wrong. At least with grinders equipped with a plasma generator.
Doing the RDT on grinders with a plasma generator (like the DF64 Gen 2) WILL GUM UP the works inside around the plasma coil, making it 100% ineffective, and increase the overall static issues.
Don't RDT any grinder with a plasma coil.
Got this direct from TWO grinder manufacturers. I've been told one is trying to get James to do a new video "recanting" the advice. It's causing them a lot of service calls.
@coffeegeek@RealGene@coffee@espresso however there is also something to be said about too much CO2 when coffee hasn’t been allowed to properly rest after roasting!
