Review on 🌡️ Black Tilt Wireless Hydrometer and Thermometer by Donald Vargas

I really like this hydrometer/thermometer. This has already helped me find the correct water addition after boiling my home made beer and I love that I can toss it in the fermenter and easily check it from my phone in their app. It's nifty, and there are plenty of third-party programs that can track your fermentation over time and help incorporate it into your brew recipes. They are also starting to work with professional brewers and have some cool toys on their website if you really want to get into brewing at scale. It uses the Bluetooth LE signal when swimming to send Temp/SG and sends it every few milliseconds, which quickly drains the battery. The Bluetooth LE signal can be received from your phone or another device such as a Raspberry Pi placed next to Tilt. You can set up logging from the Phone or Pi app using a Google Doc (csv) that will log every 15 minutes. (That seems handy: if it were logged every time a signal was sent, you'd end up with a large CSV file pretty quickly.) The Tilt website has instructions on how to do this, and while it takes a while, is it pretty much easy. However, the way to connect to a Google Doc is rather insecure. I ended up using a Gmail spam account to set up logging so I wouldn't lose anything important or personal in a hack. Also, if you don't have a Pi, your phone needs to be almost tilted to relay that signal to the Google doc. However, there is an active community of homebrew programmers working on some of the best open source tools for this device. If you want to go down that rabbit hole, check out linjmeyer/tilt-pitch on github. I haven't used it yet, but I've looked at the code and it looks very promising. All in all, this is a great device that I plan to use for the foreseeable future.