Good technology, dropped the ball on the app
Shows live time reading and that’s about it. For minimal effort and investment they could have done a much better job and included tracking and charting right in the app, instead have to export data to an external data sheet. Won’t export info if your phone is not unlocked with the app open and even then it’s not 100% reliable. For a product that is as innovative and cool as it is they should step up their game on the app side.
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Nonstarter
App is terrible. I can get readings on demand fairly reliably but pushing to cloud or storing long term is miserable. It’s clunky and weird and honestly doesn’t work well on android or iPhone. I’ve occasionally it gotten it to work but not reliably and the provided google cloud spreadsheet is cumbersome. I’d expect a lot more polish for the price of the device.
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Simply works,
They say just sanitise and drop into the wort. I did that, and it just works right away, nothing else to do. It is also accurate on both temp and gravity. Really pleased with mine.
Kinks to work out
This app is wonderful. The only draw back is I can’t seem to get my beer to track itself. Upon set up, I was able to document its first reading to a spreadsheet, but have been unable to get it to report to the same spreadsheet since. No information seems to be available anywhere that helps explain how to continually track the same beer in the same spreadsheet. I even tried naming it the suggested name in my confirmation email, but nothing appears on the original sheet and no further readings are available on any other spreadsheet anywhere. It still is amazing to be able to monitor my brew in real time, I just have to break out the old pen and paper routine to track it myself.
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Needs background mode or screen saver
When using a device for logging, the app must handle background operation or have a screensaver mode. The dedicated device will die otherwise, I used an old iPad and the screen is toast now.
