Wishlist - What features do you want? S100 / L100

Sverre Simonsen Co-Founder & CTO 249 posts

Sverre Simonsen

Eisen Lai wrote:

Any chance we can see the ROR in C /30s instead of mins?

I think we will keep the industry standard 1 min unless a larger amount of our customers wants 30 sec.

/Sverre.

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Eisen Lai Junior Member 18 posts

Eisen Lai

Since we roast within a shorter period of time now, and the Roest is so responsive to temperature change. It will be great if we have an option for a different margin to represent the ROR.

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Dave Ewald DaveEwald Member 63 posts

Dave Ewald DaveEwald

Hi,

I recently got an L100, so relatively new to using it. But am noticing a couple things that would make using it more seamless…

Some sort of confirmation on the portal that the roaster and server are or are not connected. Meaning that the live view is connected and relaying the roaster. The wireless where I have my roest can be a little flakey at times, and it seems that if the roest doesn't connect on the first try, subsequent tries might show that it's connected to the server, but actually (maybe) isn't.
- e.g. I turned on my roest and it couldn't connect to the wireless. I reset the hub, and it then connected, but when I started a roast, it didn't show on the portal (live view). I had to restart the machine before it would appear in the portal.
Saved non-connected logs that upload when connected.
- Looking at the live logs from the above example, the first roast that didn't save (?). It's not showing in Logs in the portal.
I think I'm maybe repeating this one: Adding showing drum temp in the portal live view.
redirecting links forgetting profiles to the new portal, rather than the old one. I'm not a dev, but I know there are automated ways to do this.

I was using the new version of the portal, but here's one more:

Update the manuals and welcome cards. Small point but when I got my roest, the instructions (printed & online) showed the old portal url, so a couple things I read I could do, I couldn't because I didn't even know there was a new portal with those features.

Overall, I'm very happy with this roaster. Really looking forward to auto between batch protocol for even more consistency. I have noticed drifts like others have over several consecutive roasts, and would love this feature.

Thanks

Dave

Dave Ewald
roest(er): Fosby

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Sverre Simonsen Co-Founder & CTO 249 posts

Sverre Simonsen

aris wrote:

I'd like to suggest an additional power profile that pegs power to BT instead of to time. In other words, when BT hits x temp, it is y power.

The main challenge is how to make this a function that's easy to control,

I dont see how the profile editor should look like in order to achieve this. Power profiles are not that stable either, as power is a function of the voltage.

/Sverre

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aris Junior Member 12 posts

aris

Sverre Simonsen wrote:

The main challenge is how to make this a function that's easy to control,

I dont see how the profile editor should look like in order to achieve this. Power profiles are not that stable either, as power is a function of the voltage.

/Sverre

I'm not sure I understand what you are saying. You would simply replace the 'time' column in a power profile with a 'Bean Temperature' column and the rest would be the same. When the bean temperature reaches a target, it varies the voltage to appropriate power %. It does this until all temperatures are reached. If a temperature is not reached, it does not toggle. Usual drop and other logic applies.

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snackomatic Junior Member 3 posts

snackomatic

Dear Sevrre,

Just got my ROEST recently, and been playing around with it for a few roasts.

One thing: would be good if I can also see the real-time ROR number in big fonts on the computer screen along with the Time, Air Temp and Bean Temp.

cheers,
June

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Sverre Simonsen Co-Founder & CTO 249 posts

Sverre Simonsen

Hei, June.

Welcome to the forum.

This should be a quick fix to add. We can implement it in the next release.

/Sverre.

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Dave Ewald DaveEwald Member 63 posts

Dave Ewald DaveEwald

Hi,

Couple (okay, a few 😃) things that keep coming back into mind while roasting and getting to know this pretty amazing machine over the last couple months that would be nice to have.

For connectivity, it would be beneficial to have an ethernet port that can be used instead of only WiFi. The antenna doesn't seem to be that strong – I need to have a repeater near it in order to connect even though my laptop shows 3+ bars when I unplug the repeater and just use the (more distant) mesh network satellite. The machine won't connect to that. Maybe there could be a mod that replaces the antenna?

Also, the ability to accept all glyphs for network names & (more importantly) passwords to the network. The restriction here baffles me, honestly.

A more clear indication on the web portal (on the main screen and also the web portal view) that the machine is connected and communicating with the server. Currently on the portal, it shows that the browser is connected to the server, but not the state of the roasters connection. I've thought it was connected a couple times (because the machine showed it was on wifi) and didn't realize it wasn't connected to the server until after starting a roast and not seeing it display the roast live in the portal.

auto re-directs from the profiles section of the forum that bypasses the old portal and lands you in the new portal when adding a roast profile that was uploaded to the old portal.

When in live view, the roasts available for compare don't automatically update to include the roast you just did. You can call it up by searching for it (e.g the roast #) but it should just get added when it's ready.

Also, the data color coding is difficult. There are a lot of bits of data that are using such close colors it's hard to sort them apart just by looking at them. Using the cursor helps, but seems cumbersome. There's a wealth of information design books/blogs/people that show how to separate these from each other better.

I love the ability to load a past roast in the background during the live view (and especially choose what's visible), but the color coding issue is particularly true here. Perhaps past roasts could be at 50% opacity or something like that.

…The ability to load more than one roast into the background would be nice to have.

Welp, that's it (for now😂)

Cheers & thanks

Dave Ewald
roest(er): Fosby

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aris Junior Member 12 posts

aris

aris wrote:

I'm not sure I understand what you are saying. You would simply replace the 'time' column in a power profile with a 'Bean Temperature' column and the rest would be the same. When the bean temperature reaches a target, it varies the voltage to appropriate power %. It does this until all temperatures are reached. If a temperature is not reached, it does not toggle. Usual drop and other logic applies.

Is there any more explanation that might be helpful for me to provide?

The problem now, aside from the learning curve of the machine, is that even experienced roasters must iterate through several samples of 150g+ to achieve solid bean-specific roasts. In many cases samples do not contain enough coffee to do this and it is quite wasteful.

With a BT/power profile you reduce the iterations and increase the probability of a good roast on a new bean. That's in addition to helping new owners achieve good roasts faster. This is a pretty vanilla and standard feature that would seemingly fit in easily to your existing stack with minimal UI changes, no hardware changes, and only minor logic changes to existing profiles you support.

I'm a bit surprised this isn't an automatic add. Roasting power as a function of time doesn't really even make sense on the surface of the problem given the variance in bean size, density, moisture, etc. It only really works well once you've already dialed in for a specific bean, and possibly for a given varietal from a given producer over time (across harvests).

This makes me think that maybe I have miscommunicated it somehow, especially given your last question, so please let me know if I can help.

Happy holidays!

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Sverre Simonsen Co-Founder & CTO 249 posts

Sverre Simonsen

Hei, Dave.

We are developing a brand new PCB that can be retrofitted to all machines. It will also require a new screen. This will solve all WiFi issues.

The chip that does the WiFi on current PCB is a black box we are not allowed access to.

We will do a full review of all the colours in 2023.

Lots of new features will also be released.

/Sverre

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Sverre Simonsen Co-Founder & CTO 249 posts

Sverre Simonsen

Hei, Aris.

We will implement this feature. We just have a long to-do list with higher priorities

Happy holidays.

/Sverre

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Eisen Lai Junior Member 18 posts

Eisen Lai

Cropster or Artisan or a program we can install and save the data in our own computer device will be great.
in some case like server down or anything, we can still stay on track.
like just right now, I am having issue that my roasting data didn’t goes to the logs.

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Sverre Simonsen Co-Founder & CTO 249 posts

Sverre Simonsen

Hei, Eisen.

We will create an offline version of our webportal, it's something we need for our bigger production roaster.

At this time I'm not sure if it will be available with our current PCB or if an upgrade is needed.

/Sverre

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Eisen Lai Junior Member 18 posts

Eisen Lai

i also agree with Aris, that able to program the power with temperature is very useful.
It petty much like set power up to 65% when bean temp is 175C, down to 50% when 200C, something like that.

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aris Junior Member 12 posts

aris

Sverre Simonsen wrote:

Hei, Aris.

We will implement this feature. We just have a long to-do list with higher priorities

Happy holidays.

/Sverre

Great! Thank you and Happy Holidays!

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