You are shutting down?

[truckmann]

Good to hear. I'll have to check on the unit itself when I get home from work and see what's going on.

[truckmann]

I'm not sure what happened, but I unregistered it and re-registered it and it's working again.

[ecotony]

I'm down with chipping in a few dollars for the servers.... Put up a donate button!

But I also hope we can come up with both a local server solution and also some type of subscription service if the business plan is now to wind down. I can understand that not all start-ups make it, and being hardware manufacturers, it's even harder. I just want those of us who got in early, stood by you, and really enjoy having the MT get to continue to use the functions we have grown to love. It would be great to know we have a future with our MTs.

[aaron_ouellette]

I'm going to reiterate, I'd be glad to donate toward development of a standalone server option. If that means developing it, and selling I'd pay. What I don't want is a brick in 6m or a year when the bills get too much.
AO

[gcamp]

My BrewBit was not syncing to the website for several days before I noticed, but reactivating did the trick and now everything is working well.

I'm not very technical, but I would like to echo that I LOVE my BrewBit and would be terribly disappointed if the web service went belly-up.

Thank you for consolidating the servers to keep things going. I hope whatever the solution, it remains viable for the long-term. I too would consider paying a small yearly subscription fee or donating to the standalone server development, if that is the only way to keep things going.

Thanks guys!

[7c9ec642]

I, for one, would be happy to pay a small subscription every year to keep things going. Brew it has been fantastic. A local option would be great, but until that happens I'll gladly pay to keep things going.

[dunnry]

I would probably feel comfortable decoupling this for local usage if I could only understand the various dependencies there today and a documented API for the device (wire format, etc.). I started going through the code but it's not super clear to me right now without a long time reversing it.

I am very sorry to hear that the device won't be manufactured anymore - I have been recommending it to all my brewing friends.

[alex1]

This pretty much describes my experience.

I'm by no means an expert -- I have been learning Rails over the past year or so. Eager to contribute, I opened the source and had to give up after fumbling around with the undocumented source for hours trying to find my way around to no avail. Its really too bad, and I think many others who share our experience would have loved to take part.

I urge you to package and document the source for local deployment as one last favor to the community that supported you.

[chiefsr]

I really like the product. What can I do to help?

[pdomenig]

Another really interessting approach would be to write a Software for the BrewBit which is able to communicate with a BrewPi server...

[pdomenig]

So what is going on, what are the plans?

I am afraid we are beeing left alone since there are not a lot of responses from you in the forum at the moment...

EDIT:
Well, how do you say: No answer is also an answer.

Really not nice how you treat your customers:
- Webpage still seems like everything is fine and let's you preorder devices.
- No more answers in the forum even though there are serious issues (like connection losses and messages not working).
- No plans for the future or rather "how to end this properly"
- No more development what so ever.
- No reaction to multiple people who offered there help for free.

[ryan_thompsonjewell]

I would gladly take source code and help adapt it to run locally. We'd need to be able to update the address in the device. Is that available via some hidden menu or do we have to flash the device?

[ecotony]

That would be great!

[chillindamos]

Sad to see Inebriated Solutions die. RIP.
Has any other device filled this niche yet? It seems that nothing else is out there that can control two devices with temperature profiles and log data. I talked with the BeerBug people at NHC and it sounds like they were considering development.

[ryanc]

Is it possible to release the source code for the service to the community? We could easily maintain it on github or similar service. This way, owners would have the most flexibility in how they use their device -- community supported server, local personal installation, etc.

[chillindamos]

Currently fermenting and have readily made changes on the fly. It is easy to recognize the benefit of having the Model-T and I really enjoy it as part of my process. It continues to work very well for me. So far the web services are still working and I hope they continue server operations. I lack the time and know-how to do a local installation but will gladly support and community effort.

[SLOBrewer]

RyanC,
I have access to the source code and can say that it's not in a condition where it would be easy for the community to set up and maintain their own servers or drive the project forward. I'm not saying the code itself is bad, but understanding and using it requires a lot of information that only lives in the heads of the people who created it. It would be a nontrivial effort for them to document everything or get it to a more self-documenting state.

[watched730]

Fired up the brewbit for the first time in a while.. configured a simple set temperature on the device. Realized my software is 1.3 when latest sounds to be 1.6.

Do software updates still work? Dont want to accidentally brick a working device.

[rrp66]

I just updated to 1.6 with no issues.

[watched730]

great!!! stable branch?