How To Link Your iSpindel With BrewFather - Track Your Home Brew Specific Gravity & Temperature [4K]

The iSpindel allows you to monitor and track your home brews fermentation gravity and temperature, and it can be integrated in to BrewFather so that you can monitor the progress from anywhere in the world. This tutorial will step you through the process of linking the iSpindel in to BrewFather so that you can log the fermentation process, and once we have done this setup once, we can use the iSpindel in many brews to come.

VIDEO TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Introduction
00:21 - What is BrewFather?
01:12 - Calibrate your iSpindel to get a formula
01:44 - Modifying your formula
02:58 - Enabling iSpindel option in BrewFather
03:24 - Configuring iSpindel
06:14 - Setting up iSpindel as a device in BrewFather
07:02 - Attaching iSpindel to a batch
08:04 - Using the iSpindel in future batches

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The iSpindel is a digital hydrometer that lets you wirelessly see your home brew fermentation temperature and specific gravity. With built in WiFi, the iSpindel can connect to apps such as BrewFather to graph the progress of your ferment and be accessed anywhere in the world! The iSpindel can also be used to tie in with other hardware such as BrewPi / BrewPiLess in order to build fully automated fermentation temperature controllers.

[WoollyCraftBeer]

The online calibration tool has changed since this tutorial has been created, and some people are having issues in getting the readings to show in BrewFather. It seems that with the new tool, the "Degree 3" formula generated is too many characters for the iSpindel to accept. If this is the case for you, try using the "Degree 2" formula instead

[fenchurchmarie]

Best tutorials for iSpindel and Brewfather that I have seen!

This got me up and going!

Subscribed and keep up the great work!

[losFondos]

Great tutorial, it's a shame you stopped producing content! All the best for your next projects!

[frankmarinmarin]

Thanks mate! Finally got my iSpindel & Brewfather working together. So easy once you know what to do ;-)

[DataWiseTube]

Fantastic video - really good and helped me get my ispindel built, calibrated, and hooked up to Brewfather. Thanks and well done

[usit]

The only tutorial that makes sense, thank you

[gplans]

Great video!! I have had my iSpindel for months unable to get it working correctly. This has encouraged me to give it another go. Cheers

[cesarcoello]

Just in case someone has the same problem. When I was setting up my Ispindel the gravity value wasn’t showing in the brewfather app. It was showing everything else (tilt angle, temperature, battery). I fixed it just erasing some of the last digits in the equation to get less than 100 characters.
Example: 0.9025616197527165 + 0.005725112639469727 *tilt-0.00009304182832571584 *tilt*tilt + 6.660230505210948e-7 *tilt*tilt*tilt
I used: 0.9025616197527 + 0.005725112639469*tilt -0.00009304182832571*tilt^2 + 6.660230505210948e-7*tilt^3

[gustag]

Very nice video! I waiting for my iSpindel to come and I will definetely try that on BrewFather

[TapedTogether]

Great vid, thanks! Just about to set up my first Ispindel and didn't know BrewFather was compatible. Cheers

[Stakan]

Great video! I needed this to get it working.
After about a day of fermentation and successful logging to Brewfather, I had to reset my router because it lost internet connection for some reason. After my router regained internet connection, the ispindel has stopped logging. Is there a solution to this or is it game over until I take it out of the fermentation bucket?

[bernardcrick]

Hi All,
I had the same problem and found the attached link in Brewfarther. you enter your measured angle readings, then your enter your measured SG readings, then your measured Plato readings.
Click the button at the bottom. then at the top you will get your plato formula. remove the spacings and it all seem to work.
P.s i removed the SG from the Ispindel name and it worked.

[joachimmurphy]

Thanks so much for these videos on setting up the iSpindel. I would have never been able to do it without your kind advice. You have also finally given me the push to join Brewfather, after many years of using my trusty Beer engine which alas is now out of date. I also have an iSpindel rely and wondered if it is possible to run this along side BrewFather, or is it one or the other? Regards!

[rotorgoat]

Fantastic video. The calibration was a bit of a pain because of my choice of pot to use. Especially at the low end as the ispindel touched the bottom. Sorted it in the end but my question is, can I connect the ispindel in brewfather to plot the readings straight to the graph? I can only see the manual readings that I put in before? Cheers

[scottthibodeau]

I followed your video for doing the sugar water calibration, which was great. I don’t use Brewfather but have setup my Ispindle to work with Ubidots. How would I put those polynomial numbers I got from the calibration into Ubidots? Do I need these numbers for Ubidots?

[Nigellittle]

Great video. My Ispindle is coming next week. Can you calibrate using the brewfather app? I don't have a laptop, just a phone and the 192.168.4.1 address doesn't work on my phone so will need to calibrate another way (like through the app???)🤔

[alexspain]

You mentioned this was one of a number of apps you were going to show. But it's been 7 months now so not sure if it's worth subscribing or not

[Arkbird]

Thx man ! I use the tool from ubidots but i dont like it... Next Bach i wanna try this ! Can you make a video for brewfather App ? Creation of recipe and use it at the brewing day ?👌

[dwilkowske]

Does the ispindel have a stand alone app or does it have to connect to a program like Brewfather?

[AlLen-fpjq]

A week ago, I sent you a message via ebay for after-sales help on the pre-assembled model, as water is getting into the tube, even though the lid is tight, but 'not too tight'. I haven't heard back from you & it isn't performing as I would expect - could you please advise??