Great explanation mate. I have this controller set up on my 220 litre fermenter. Your video really helped me understand all the settings and get it running great.
Thank goodness I found you. I must have tried over 100 times to connect my 308s and every time got the FAILED signal. I was just about to chuck it through the telly when I decided to look on YT. A thousand thank you's mate.
You're a legend, thanks for this. Just got mine in the mail today, so happy when i found you had done a vid for it. The reason I was happy was because i knew the video was garunteed to tell me all i needed to know. Still haven't read the instructions!! Your content is awesome, a big cheers from Tassie!!
Many thanks for a clear and helpful video. The manual uses plenty of waffle which completely threw me! Beer is nice and chilled thanks to you! (Now raising a glass to you sir!)
I tried to connect it for like 100x times and it never worked But then I did this: 1) Turned off my 5GHz wifi (you can do it in the admin settings of your router) 2) Switched the Temperature Settings from C to F (like in this video 01:05) 3) Deleted the App and installed it again 4) Pressed the wifi / up Button till it started to blink faster 5) Connected it and it worked This steps could help you too, so you should try it, if you have problems like i had :) And thanks for the Video
Yes agreed, reason I dont is that I'm more than often found with the fridge door open staring at the fermenter with the ITC right in front of me hahaha
Your explanation makes so much more sense than the booklet, and saved my life from the wife, as it's for her bread dough proving box that I made for her. Cheers
Damn I've been away from the forums too long! Didn't even know about this even though I use a couple of Inkbird products. Better get into the fray again. Cheers!
Great video once again mate. Quick question, does this work with a chest freezer too? And do you need a heating element or can you just rely on the cooling side to keep the temperature?
Awesome tutorial and setup guide! I just purchased my InkBird ITC-308 WiFi for homebrewing. I recently started kegging my beer but my Kegerator for some reason seems to work like a freezer and gets too cold! So I'm hoping this will solve that issue! For the heat mat, do you wrap your fermenter/keg with it, or do you set the heat mat on the bottom/floor of the fridge/kegerator? I had the same question for the probe, do you tape it to the middle/side of your fermenter or keg or on the middle/side of your Fridge/kegerator? Thanks The Home Brew Network!
Hey mate great vid. New to brewing and Looking at setting up a chest freezer or fridge what do u suggest for a heating element? My shed gets pretty warm most of the year do u reckon it could work with just the cooling side until I find a heating element (if I find I need one)? I like the wifi part of the inkbird because I work away for 2 weeks at a time so I can keep an eye on it. Cheers 🍻
I am just starting my first brew with the Fermzilla and a fermenting fridge. Obviously there are differences between fridges, but can I ask what settings you're using on the Inkbird and how you have the probe attached to the Fermzilla? I've seen it in the background in several vids, but can't find a video explaining how you set it up. Keep up the great work and the videos coming! Cheers :D
Very helpful video! Thank you. This is a very nice device. However, the manual and website are a bit difficult to interpret. This video really does a nice job of explaining how to setup the unit.
Just got one of these today! Thanks for the video, really helped get it setup. Looks amazing, and easy to setup using your guide! Couldn't be bothered with the manual :/ My only gripe so far after watching your video and setting up the ITC 308 WiFi is.... I wish I could disable the "beeping" alarm on the actual device and still have the notification on my phone. The mrs might be a bit "alarmed" hearing it go bi-bi-biiiiii when I'm at work!!
Yes thats a good point, to be honest though I've found things rarely go off, only time mine used to was when I using light globes to heat and the globes would blow. Cheers and thanks for watching!
How can you change it back to heating if it’s on cooling? I have a horse trough I’m trying to keep at room temp or luke warm during winter(encourages them to drink more) it’s a basic bucket water heater 1000 or 1500w?? I think.
Can you set both functions to one plug? I have a unique situation: a climate battery in a greenhouse. We just use one fan, both to pump warm air underground when it's too hot, and then to pump the air through the ground to warm the greenhouse at night. So we need to operate 1 unit, at two different temperatures. For example, between 14C and 25c it's off, above 25c it runs, and below 14c it runs. Can this unit do this?
Hello, If I set 18 and then 2 for the CD and same for HD I do not have this range applied. For example the fridge that should kick in at 20 C° or above it doesn't same thing for the heating. They simply start to heat or cool as soon as the temperature is 18,1 or 17,9, is there anything I don't know? Maybe I got a faulty device :(
I’m not excited about this product. I had one that Amazon thankfully replaced. The probe was not reading correctly even though I calibrated it to my digital thermometer. The second one which I got today is more accurate after calibration but still over by around 2 degrees. Perhaps not the best for my veggie grow tent.
Excuse my ignorance but what do you have plugged in to the heating side? If the fermenter is in the fridge and the cooling controls the power to the fridge what do brewers use to heat? Thanks.
Great video, mate. I also got a "failed to add device" notice several times on my iPad, I then connected first time on an old Android phone and the iPad started playing ball! Computers! How did you arrive at the 3 minute timing for the compressor setting?
Its a pretty standard setting - its the time typically required by any compressor based appliance for the head pressure to be reduced. If trying to start compressor any sooner than that, the motor may not start due to the high pressure head. Its built into many, if not most cooling appliances such as refrigerators, freezers, etc. I keep mine set to 3 minutes - just in case.
Well, I dont think we all need the wifi, it will be rare I use it, but some people love it, whether it will work in your shed I dont know, do you get much wifi signal in the shed? Cheers mate!
When one circuit is active it supplies a constant 240v or whichever version you have, so yeah if you have contactor that runs or triggers off a constant 240v i guess you could. If youre into wiring things you might be better of with a STC1000 .Cheers
So can this device be set for example if I want the cooling to kick on at 80°f and stay on until it gets down to 70°f before turning off again... So the cooling unit doesn't keep kicking on at 80 and then right off against 79 and then on again at 80 and right back off again at 79 etc.. etc... ???
Hello, I would like to use this to control a 120 volt water pump (or a 12 volt with 120 v adapter) to send water through a tankless propane water heater as an aux heater for a intex hot tub, the tankless has a 20 min safety shut off so most peeps run a timer, can you set this to shut of say every 15 mins then back on for another 15 mins? it would only be uses ad the secondary heater but it might need to run for 60-90 mins to get the temp up to say 105 and i don’t want to have to restart it every 20 mins thanks
This model doesnt work on timings its all temperature controlled. This model maybe be better as you can set times for temps, still not 100% sure its what you need, Cheers ua-cam.com/video/mNElm8W8vdo/v-deo.html
For growers in tents you will need a dial knob heater not digital.as digital gets turned off by unit it want turn back on.great unit otherwise with phone app
hello,new to the inkbird,i currently have a older fridge for my kegs and bottles..my question is can this be used on a beer fridge or is it meant for a separate unit,i am trying to find info/video on this subject,i have no idea on this thanks..i am sure i could program it but where and how to use the darn thing lol
Hey bro.hope you good..my old water chiller won't stop cooling coz it broken when it comes to switching off the cooling.do you think I could use this to shut the chiller off and on again like it should internally.?
Thats on special now, only $60 delivered, you wont get the wifi version any cheaper than that I dont think. The normal one goes for around 40 on special. Cheers!
£60 FOR 3 With free delivery and with the added bonus Alexa compatible so I can check the current temps and change if required from the comfort of my bed and I dont have to press any buttons on my phone work smart !!!!!
i cannot get this to set on the right temps,i just got it today,driving me nuts,i should buy you a plane ticket so you can help me lol..ever been to Canada lol
I've just got two of these, both set to 19, and yet they both will heat until 19.5, and as soon as hey get to there hey cool back to 18.5. They go up and down constantly and are either heating or cooling non stop. Have you noticed this happening at all?
theres a setting, lowest you can go is .3 .. any lower than that even if you could would kill your fridge likely. If it didnt explain offset in this video it will in my other video on inkbird ITC-308 Cheers! go through the settings and change the .5 to .3 Cheers!
@@HomeBrewNetwork thanks for the reply. I have t set to .5 but it's going 1 degree over each way. Just seems weird that it will swing so wildly - I'm talking every 5 minutes it goes right up to 1 degree over, and down again within 5 minutes. Might contact the company.
@@HomeBrewNetwork tapped to the side of the FV and insulated with a towel. I was thinking I've never had an issue before, but in reality I've never had the ability to check so who knows. It's not an issue for the fermentation as you can't change 23 litres within a 5 minute swing, it's just using heaps of power cycling up and down. Overnight I popped a fan in and it seems to be better which would indicate I haven't insulated the probe enough. Might get an old beer coozie and give it go. Thanks for your help.
Yes I think they are sending them out to everyone, pity I'd bought one already a few months before lol I thought it might be different but it isnt, but will still get used! They work well! Cheers
To be honest I dont use it much, its kind of like everytime I nearly do use it, I want to go and check on the beer, make sure its where I want to be etc before the temp change.. Its good for when your away from home and you must have something in the fermenter. Cheers mate!
@@HomeBrewNetwork yeah it's not crucial but it would be handy having a better interface when switching from ferment temp to crash temp. The remote capability is definitely something I would use too. Ahh well, the standard one will do for now.
Oh bum - it's the IFTTT I want to find out about on these. It's a really simple thing where you can link devices and web things together and create applets on ifttt.com. I want to tamper. I'm a tamperer. Do you know if you can set up scheduling via the app so you could ramp temperatures and stuff? Cheers, Gash. EDIT: Inkbird - send me a bloody 308 wifi and I'll do wonders with it and knock up some mad IFTTT apps for it.
Mine has the wifi light off, then when you press the wifi button it blinks slowly or sometimes rapidly for a few seconds; but it never manages to pair. Absolute fucking garbage. Might as well not whack wifi onto something if you're going to do it this poorly.
Great explanation mate. I have this controller set up on my 220 litre fermenter. Your video really helped me understand all the settings and get it running great.
Thanks mate. This made the setup incredibly easy. You're a life saver
Thank goodness I found you. I must have tried over 100 times to connect my 308s and every time got the FAILED signal. I was just about to chuck it through the telly when I decided to look on YT. A thousand thank you's mate.
Glad I could help, Cheers!
@@HomeBrewNetwork You're very welcome.
You're a legend, thanks for this. Just got mine in the mail today, so happy when i found you had done a vid for it. The reason I was happy was because i knew the video was garunteed to tell me all i needed to know. Still haven't read the instructions!! Your content is awesome, a big cheers from Tassie!!
Thanks very much, cheers!
Same for me, though I did read the instructions and still couldn't understand how to set it up. Great vid saved me a load of time.
Thank you for this explanation. I was somewhat puzzled by the setup but you have cracked it for me. Greetings from Sunny Somerset UK to Orstraylier.
Thanks for watching and cheers mate!
Big thanks for this walk through tutorial, makes set up and function navigation easy. Thanks!!
Good stuff, cheers mate!
Mines coming today and I wasn't looking forward to reading the instruction booklet for 20mins. Thanks legend!
88Jazza cheers mate!
The manual did very little for me. Thanks for your wonderful explanation. Legend!
Glad I could help! Cheers!
Many thanks for a clear and helpful video. The manual uses plenty of waffle which completely threw me! Beer is nice and chilled thanks to you! (Now raising a glass to you sir!)
very clear and helpful instructions which apply equally to the non-wifi version - thanks
Glad it helped
Thank you for this, while dont have the wifi one I have itc-308 this helped me out alot.
Thanks for watching mate! Cheers!
Great review and instructions! With they made a humidity one that was wifi.
I tried to connect it for like 100x times and it never worked
But then I did this:
1) Turned off my 5GHz wifi (you can do it in the admin settings of your router)
2) Switched the Temperature Settings from C to F (like in this video 01:05)
3) Deleted the App and installed it again
4) Pressed the wifi / up Button till it started to blink faster
5) Connected it and it worked
This steps could help you too, so you should try it, if you have problems like i had :)
And thanks for the Video
That was great thanks very much, I was having a nightmare setting it up. Your video made the whole process simple 🤓👍🏻
Glad it helped Cheers!
Comprehensive run through of the device, great work mate, im very happy with mine, cheers
Yeah they are alright, this is actually my second, not that I ever remember to use the wifi function much lol
@@HomeBrewNetwork The app is very good for changing the settings, i imagine first time users would find it alot easier to use,
Yes agreed, reason I dont is that I'm more than often found with the fridge door open staring at the fermenter with the ITC right in front of me hahaha
You are amazing!!! You really saved this for me. I was about to throw mine out until I watched this!! 100% brilliant 👌👍
Good to hear mate, Cheers!
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Your explanation makes so much more sense than the booklet, and saved my life from the wife, as it's for her bread dough proving box that I made for her. Cheers
Damn I've been away from the forums too long!
Didn't even know about this even though I use a couple of Inkbird products.
Better get into the fray again.
Cheers!
Cheers Gerry, thanks for watching mate
Thank you very much, this video helped me a lot 🙏🏼
Thanks mate. I tried to set it up but the manual was not clear and codes popped up that were not in the manual. I UA-camd it and you solved it
No problem 👍 Cheers!
Very glad I found this video.
Thanks legend!
No worries, Cheers mate!
You legend mate dropped a like and a sub for the headache you saved me
great video thanks, after seeing how good the app works I might upgrade
Cheers Joel, they are on special through that link too. Cheers!
Great video once again mate. Quick question, does this work with a chest freezer too? And do you need a heating element or can you just rely on the cooling side to keep the temperature?
cheers Gash - nice bit of kit those controllers. I had the same glitch when I first added mine.
Yeah happened to my last one too, must be a thing. Cheers Stass
also had the same 'error' message here! works fine though.
Awesome tutorial and setup guide! I just purchased my InkBird ITC-308 WiFi for homebrewing. I recently started kegging my beer but my Kegerator for some reason seems to work like a freezer and gets too cold! So I'm hoping this will solve that issue! For the heat mat, do you wrap your fermenter/keg with it, or do you set the heat mat on the bottom/floor of the fridge/kegerator? I had the same question for the probe, do you tape it to the middle/side of your fermenter or keg or on the middle/side of your Fridge/kegerator?
Thanks The Home Brew Network!
Thank you. This video really helped me!
Glad to hear it mate, cheers!
That was so helpful you clearly went through each setting just what i needed I couldn't find any other videos to explain so clearly Cheers!!
Thanks champ, awesome vid
cheers great video - just got mine...
Great Video! Thank you, I have mine set up in my greenhouse
Glad it was helpful!
I have used 2 of these for years, they are a great bit of kit.
1 controls my Keezer and the other 1 is hooked up to the fermenting fridge.
I didnt know the wifi had been out that long! I got my first only a few months ago, regular one I've had for ages, cheers mate!
@@HomeBrewNetwork bahahaha Gash sorry I should of made that point of mine being the non wifi ones to. Either way easy to use quility units.
Nice video just programming it now 🇬🇧
Great review. Useful information.
Glad it was helpful! Cheers!
Seriously so helpful
Hey mate great vid. New to brewing and Looking at setting up a chest freezer or fridge what do u suggest for a heating element? My shed gets pretty warm most of the year do u reckon it could work with just the cooling side until I find a heating element (if I find I need one)? I like the wifi part of the inkbird because I work away for 2 weeks at a time so I can keep an eye on it. Cheers 🍻
Great insight for this thanks so much for the video very informative
Glad it was helpful!
I am just starting my first brew with the Fermzilla and a fermenting fridge. Obviously there are differences between fridges, but can I ask what settings you're using on the Inkbird and how you have the probe attached to the Fermzilla? I've seen it in the background in several vids, but can't find a video explaining how you set it up. Keep up the great work and the videos coming! Cheers :D
Thanks worked great
Very helpful video! Thank you. This is a very nice device. However, the manual and website are a bit difficult to interpret. This video really does a nice job of explaining how to setup the unit.
Thanks for watching Randy. Cheers!
Just got one of these today! Thanks for the video, really helped get it setup. Looks amazing, and easy to setup using your guide! Couldn't be bothered with the manual :/
My only gripe so far after watching your video and setting up the ITC 308 WiFi is.... I wish I could disable the "beeping" alarm on the actual device and still have the notification on my phone. The mrs might be a bit "alarmed" hearing it go bi-bi-biiiiii when I'm at work!!
Yes thats a good point, to be honest though I've found things rarely go off, only time mine used to was when I using light globes to heat and the globes would blow. Cheers and thanks for watching!
@@HomeBrewNetwork Agreed! Might be just because I'm testing it out, and as you rightly say it's unlikely for things to go off in the real world!
Excellent explanation tqvm god bless you
Спасибо, очень помогло...
Just a quick question can you cancel the alarm from the phone as well or you have to press button on the Inkibird controller itself?
With the differentials that low, do you worry about the hot and cold fighting each other should you be running both together for some reason?
Hi, just wanted to know what gauge is the probe, and can this be used as a PID to control the boiler temperature of a still?
Cheers this helped
Hi,
Can you set temperatures schedules with this? For example you may want more heat in the night and less in the day.
Thanks
Thank you 😁
No problem 😊
How can you change it back to heating if it’s on cooling? I have a horse trough I’m trying to keep at room temp or luke warm during winter(encourages them to drink more) it’s a basic bucket water heater 1000 or 1500w?? I think.
cheers mate!
Cheers bloke!
thank you
You're welcome
Can you set both functions to one plug? I have a unique situation: a climate battery in a greenhouse. We just use one fan, both to pump warm air underground when it's too hot, and then to pump the air through the ground to warm the greenhouse at night. So we need to operate 1 unit, at two different temperatures. For example, between 14C and 25c it's off, above 25c it runs, and below 14c it runs. Can this unit do this?
I've got a egg incubator which I want to connect. Hope that it works.
How did you connect the Inkbird to smart Life App?
Great explanation. Just wondering can i turn on and off heating without setting the values? Does it have a countdown timer?
Not that I know of. No its all controlled by temperature this model. Cheers!
Got this but unsure what to buy to connect to it. Any tips or links anyone for heaters/coolers ?
Yo! Quick question. If the blinking dot stops blinking after 10 sec, and never start again after. What might be the problem?
What do you plug in the sockets? A heater to send the temperatures up? And what do u plug in to lower the temp?
I fridge or a glycol system Cheers
Gday mate do you know if this wifi model would still work if I haven't got my internet connected up yet? Cheers mate and great video🍻
Hello, Im a bit lost of how to calibrate it, as my one does not look like reading the temperature in the correct way
Remember to plug your heater into the heating slot
Does the phone audio alert during high temp alert?
Great video, just one doubt, can you use it also for colder temperatures, for example if i wanna down it to 4°CC, for maturating in cold
yep will work fine mate, cheers!
Hello, If I set 18 and then 2 for the CD and same for HD I do not have this range applied. For example the fridge that should kick in at 20 C° or above it doesn't same thing for the heating. They simply start to heat or cool as soon as the temperature is 18,1 or 17,9, is there anything I don't know? Maybe I got a faulty device :(
Nice explanation of the manual settings but the app has now changed and I cannot connect. I still gave it a thumb up :)
How can I operate cooling mode...there are differences in the items on my screen...there is only heating elements
Do you know if it is possible to connect this device to a 5Ghz WiFi?
I guess if you cold crash. You want the low temp alarm down in the low minus range?
How do you reset it after the alarm goes off?
When that NSW wallpaper came up. I thought to myself... Id follow you to war mate NZ Aucks Up the blues
I’m not excited about this product. I had one that Amazon thankfully replaced. The probe was not reading correctly even though I calibrated it to my digital thermometer. The second one which I got today is more accurate after calibration but still over by around 2 degrees. Perhaps not the best for my veggie grow tent.
Excuse my ignorance but what do you have plugged in to the heating side? If the fermenter is in the fridge and the cooling controls the power to the fridge what do brewers use to heat? Thanks.
I use a heat belt these days. Cheers!
Can you have more than one user have the same account on more than one phone so that more than one person can make changes?
Great video, mate. I also got a "failed to add device" notice several times on my iPad, I then connected first time on an old Android phone and the iPad started playing ball! Computers!
How did you arrive at the 3 minute timing for the compressor setting?
Its a pretty standard setting - its the time typically required by any compressor based appliance for the head pressure to be reduced. If trying to start compressor any sooner than that, the motor may not start due to the high pressure head. Its built into many, if not most cooling appliances such as refrigerators, freezers, etc. I keep mine set to 3 minutes - just in case.
Yep, what Paul said. Cheers mate!
Great review Gash.
Is it really worth the price,and how well would the wifi connection be inside a shed?
Well, I dont think we all need the wifi, it will be rare I use it, but some people love it, whether it will work in your shed I dont know, do you get much wifi signal in the shed? Cheers mate!
@@HomeBrewNetwork
No not always but you learn to live without.
My wifi is pretty crap in the brewery too, I dont even bother taking the laptop out there anymore.
Go the blues!!!
Fudge yeah! hahaha
Thanks for the video. Will this control a contactor?
When one circuit is active it supplies a constant 240v or whichever version you have, so yeah if you have contactor that runs or triggers off a constant 240v i guess you could. If youre into wiring things you might be better of with a STC1000 .Cheers
Thanks
So can this device be set for example if I want the cooling to kick on at 80°f and stay on until it gets down to 70°f before turning off again... So the cooling unit doesn't keep kicking on at 80 and then right off against 79 and then on again at 80 and right back off again at 79 etc.. etc... ???
Yes you can its called the Hysteresis so you set a mid temperature and then how far each way before the cooling or heating switches on or off. Cheers!
Hi mate, nice 👍, can you connect these to a portable air conditioner?
Yes you can!
Hello, I would like to use this to control a 120 volt water pump (or a 12 volt with 120 v adapter) to send water through a tankless propane water heater as an aux heater for a intex hot tub, the tankless has a 20 min safety shut off so most peeps run a timer, can you set this to shut of say every 15 mins then back on for another 15 mins? it would only be uses ad the secondary heater but it might need to run for 60-90 mins to get the temp up to say 105 and i don’t want to have to restart it every 20 mins thanks
This model doesnt work on timings its all temperature controlled. This model maybe be better as you can set times for temps, still not 100% sure its what you need, Cheers ua-cam.com/video/mNElm8W8vdo/v-deo.html
For growers in tents you will need a dial knob heater not digital.as digital gets turned off by unit it want turn back on.great unit otherwise with phone app
What heater do you suggest?
Can this be configured to a cooling fan to kick in if it’s too warm?
yes for sure
hello,new to the inkbird,i currently have a older fridge for my kegs and bottles..my question is can this be used on a beer fridge or is it meant for a separate unit,i am trying to find info/video on this subject,i have no idea on this thanks..i am sure i could program it but where and how to use the darn thing lol
It can be used on any fridge or cooling heating system. .what issues are you having mate?
@@HomeBrewNetwork no issues,have never used it
Hey bro.hope you good..my old water chiller won't stop cooling coz it broken when it comes to switching off the cooling.do you think I could use this to shut the chiller off and on again like it should internally.?
Well I guess so, it will cut off the power so it will stop chilling where you want it too! Cheers!
@@HomeBrewNetwork thank you.!!👌
I reckon Ill grab one when I see the next deal for them
Thats on special now, only $60 delivered, you wont get the wifi version any cheaper than that I dont think. The normal one goes for around 40 on special. Cheers!
I bought a full price one a few months ago.. think mine cost me 79 bucks back then.. bugger lol
@@HomeBrewNetwork yep you're right. The deal was about $60 a while back. I just had a look
£60 FOR 3 With free delivery and with the added bonus Alexa compatible so I can check the current temps and change if required from the comfort of my bed and I dont have to press any buttons on my phone work smart !!!!!
@@Here-and-there that price for 3 is great
can you switch the alarm beeping off?
Al and ah settings are alarm high and low, they can be adjusted. The other alarm is a busted probe. Cheers
i cannot get this to set on the right temps,i just got it today,driving me nuts,i should buy you a plane ticket so you can help me lol..ever been to Canada lol
hmmmm I wonder why
Can this be use for chiller?
Thought going to use it for my aquarium chiller.
I've just got two of these, both set to 19, and yet they both will heat until 19.5, and as soon as hey get to there hey cool back to 18.5. They go up and down constantly and are either heating or cooling non stop. Have you noticed this happening at all?
theres a setting, lowest you can go is .3 .. any lower than that even if you could would kill your fridge likely. If it didnt explain offset in this video it will in my other video on inkbird ITC-308 Cheers! go through the settings and change the .5 to .3 Cheers!
Just watch the video, its in there... just a few minutes in,, cheers!
@@HomeBrewNetwork thanks for the reply. I have t set to .5 but it's going 1 degree over each way. Just seems weird that it will swing so wildly - I'm talking every 5 minutes it goes right up to 1 degree over, and down again within 5 minutes. Might contact the company.
@@DeneMcDonald where have you got the sensor?
@@HomeBrewNetwork tapped to the side of the FV and insulated with a towel. I was thinking I've never had an issue before, but in reality I've never had the ability to check so who knows. It's not an issue for the fermentation as you can't change 23 litres within a 5 minute swing, it's just using heaps of power cycling up and down. Overnight I popped a fan in and it seems to be better which would indicate I haven't insulated the probe enough. Might get an old beer coozie and give it go. Thanks for your help.
Excellent review ............. until 12:12 :-( oh well no one's perfect!
Bluueeeess! :)
seems like every man and is dog have got these to review
Yes I think they are sending them out to everyone, pity I'd bought one already a few months before lol I thought it might be different but it isnt, but will still get used! They work well! Cheers
are they worth buying?
I think they are, its up to you whether you want the wifi version or not, we survived years without the wifi one!
Damn, pretty annoyed I didnt buy this version. Does the unit hold the values set via wifi is the wifi disconnects?
To be honest I dont use it much, its kind of like everytime I nearly do use it, I want to go and check on the beer, make sure its where I want to be etc before the temp change.. Its good for when your away from home and you must have something in the fermenter. Cheers mate!
@@HomeBrewNetwork yeah it's not crucial but it would be handy having a better interface when switching from ferment temp to crash temp. The remote capability is definitely something I would use too. Ahh well, the standard one will do for now.
Oh bum - it's the IFTTT I want to find out about on these. It's a really simple thing where you can link devices and web things together and create applets on ifttt.com. I want to tamper. I'm a tamperer.
Do you know if you can set up scheduling via the app so you could ramp temperatures and stuff? Cheers, Gash.
EDIT: Inkbird - send me a bloody 308 wifi and I'll do wonders with it and knock up some mad IFTTT apps for it.
hahaha I'm guessing you can, not sure why it would be there if you couldnt. Cheers!
Can u use this with a small space heater to keep a room within temperature?
I guess you could.. placement of the probe would be very important though of course. Cheers!
Does it have to be a digital heater as well?
The Home Brew Network does it cut the heater on and off? I have a little 16.99 one from ollies but it’s built pretty well but it’s not digital..
yes it cuts power
it doesnt have to be digital at all, it just cuts power on and off
Seems like the link is dead for Aus
I'll have a look
Thanks mate
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6:53 WIFI
Odd plug not U.S
Im first. Cheers
Winner .. WE HAVE A WINNER! :P
@@HomeBrewNetwork hahaha awesome.
Mine has the wifi light off, then when you press the wifi button it blinks slowly or sometimes rapidly for a few seconds; but it never manages to pair. Absolute fucking garbage. Might as well not whack wifi onto something if you're going to do it this poorly.