Tilt Pi Smart-Home-Integration, kostenlos und Open Source
Unofficial: your Tilt hydrometers via the Tilt Pi app, locally: gravity and temperature.
Veröffentlicht von LM1LC3N7
- Geräte
- Version 0.1.1
- Erfordert Gladys >=5.1.0
- ★ 0
Die Dokumentation dieser Integration wird von ihrem Autor geschrieben und ist bisher nur auf Englisch verfügbar.
Unofficial connector, not affiliated with Tilt Hydrometer (Baron Brew Equipment). It brings into Gladys the Tilt hydrometers floating in your fermenters (beer, wine, cider, mead...), read from the Tilt Pi app running on a Raspberry Pi on your network, through its local HTTP API, without any cloud.
This integration has never been tested with a real Tilt Pi. It follows the
tilt-pilibrary used by the Tilt Pi integration of Home Assistant. Please report what you see on the Gladys forum.
What you need
- One or more Tilt (or Tilt Pro, Tilt HD).
- A Raspberry Pi running the Tilt Pi app (the official Tilt Pi image),
on the same network as Gladys, that shows your Tilts on its web page
(
http://<Raspberry Pi address>:1880/). The Tilt Pi listens to the Tilts over Bluetooth, on its Raspberry Pi: Gladys never uses Bluetooth (a Gladys integration runs in a container without Bluetooth).
What you get
One Gladys device per Tilt colour ("Tilt Red", "Tilt Blue"...):
| Feature | Unit | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Specific gravity (SG) | none ("SG" in name) | the gravity, about 1.000 for water |
| Temperature | °C | a probe: kept out of the room temperature average |
- Gladys has no category nor unit for a density: the gravity is an "unknown" sensor without unit, its unit (SG) only written in its name. No unit is invented.
- The colour is the identity of a Tilt on a Tilt Pi: the device of a colour stays the same, even when you swap the Tilt of that colour.
- The feature names are in English; rename them at creation if you like.
Installation
- Install the integration from the Gladys catalog (Gladys 5.1 or later).
- On the Configuration screen, enter the Tilt Pi address (the IP
address of the Raspberry Pi, e.g.
192.168.1.30, with:portonly if it is not 1880). - Click Test the Tilt Pi: the message shows the gravity and the temperature of each Tilt.
- Open the Discovery tab and add the devices.
Configuration
- Tilt Pi address: an IP address or a host name, with a port if it is
not 1880;
http://is accepted, nothttps://(the Tilt Pi page has none), nor a path or a user. Give the Raspberry Pi a fixed address in your router. A new address is read at once (one request a minute at most). - Read interval: 5 minutes by default, 1 to 60.
- No unit setting: the Tilt Pi API always gives the temperature in °F, even when its page shows °C (that is what the official flow of the app does). The integration converts it to °C, and Gladys shows it in the unit of your profile. If the API temperature disagrees with what the Tilt Pi page shows, it is not sent and the status says so.
How often the Tilt Pi is read
- A read sends one request:
GET /macid/all(every Tilt the Tilt Pi hears). - Never faster than the interval, counted from the last read on a
monotonic clock (a clock change never reads sooner): not by the test
button, a reconnection to Gladys, an unchanged saved configuration, the
Discovery tab nor a restart of the container (the instant of the last
request is kept under
/data, written before the request leaves). Before the interval has passed, the test button shows the last values and when the next read can happen. - Read only: the integration never writes anything to the Tilt Pi.
- When the Tilt Pi answers 429 or a 5xx error, it is left alone for the
Retry-Afterit gives, else 5 minutes, then 10, 20...; always between 1 minute and 6 hours, also across a restart. - No Tilt heard (between two brews, or right after the Tilt Pi cleared
its slots because a Tilt was silent more than 2 minutes) is normal: the
Tilt Pi answers
{}, the status stays connected and the known Tilts show "no recent reading". - No answer, a page that is not a Tilt Pi (404, an answer that is neither a
list nor
{}) or a refused access: tried again at the next interval only.
Which values reach Gladys
- Each reading is handed to Gladys once. A reading is told apart by its
time (
timeStamp, always given by the Tilt Pi), else by its temperature, gravity, MAC address and rawtimeStamp(never by the signal nor the clock fields the Tilt Pi rewrites without a new reading). - A reading at most 3 minutes old is sent as the current value; from 3 to 15 minutes, it is sent dated (Gladys stores it at its time and no scene fires).
- A silent Tilt (out of range, flat battery, out of the fermenter) is
never shown alive: when its reading no longer changes, nothing is
sent, and the status shows "no recent reading". A reading dated more than
15 minutes ago, measured with the Tilt Pi clock (the
Dateof its answer; the age alone decides, so a Raspberry Pi set back to an old time loses no reading), is never sent. Without a time, the first reading seen of a Tilt is not sent: only a reading that changed since the previous read proves the Tilt alive. - A value out of range (gravity outside 0.950 to 1.200, temperature outside -10 to 60 °C, what a wort can reach) is never sent nor clamped; the status reports it. The 0 °F the Tilt Pi gives when its calibration fails is thus left out.
- Two Tilts of the same colour: without the "ID by MAC" option of the
Tilt Pi, it has one entry per colour, filled in turn by both. The
integration keeps a fingerprint of the MAC address of each colour: when
it changes, nothing is sent for that colour and the status shows "MAC
changed: two Tilts of this colour, or a Tilt replaced". A replaced Tilt
(the old address never back) comes back when the same new address is read
twice in a row. If an address already replaced comes back within 24
hours (A, then B, then A again: two Tilts taking turns), the colour is
locked: nothing is sent for it, and the status shows "two Tilts of
this colour (MAC addresses taking turns): only one Tilt per colour is
supported", until a single address has been read alone for 24 hours, in
at least 12 reads (half the reads of a day at the chosen interval). The
lock is kept under
/data: neither a restart nor a saved configuration lifts it. Only one Tilt per colour is supported. The "ID by MAC" option of the Tilt Pi gives each Tilt its own entry (RED:aa:bb:...), read as the red colour; but if two entries have the same colour, neither is sent either ("two Tilts of this colour"). - A device created later gets the last reading, dated, if it is less than 15 minutes old.
What is kept under /data
The address read, the instant of the last request, the pause, and for each colour met the key of the last reading seen (its time, or a short digest of the entry) and an 8-character fingerprint of the MAC address of the Tilt (never the address in clear), never the values. The file is written at most once per minute, but for a pause or a new colour.
8 colours at most; 50 entries at most are read; an answer larger than 256 KB, or slower than 15 seconds, is dropped.
External ids
ext:tilt-pi:tilt:<colour> (black, blue, green, orange, pink,
purple, red, yellow), then :gravity or :temperature. These ids
never change.
Troubleshooting
- "no answer": check the address, and that the Tilt Pi page
http://<address>:1880/opens from your network. - "no Tilt Pi at this address (404)": another service answers at this address; check the port.
- "no recent reading": the Tilt Pi has not heard this Tilt lately (Bluetooth range, battery, Tilt lying out of the liquid).
- Logs: the level is set with the
LOG_LEVELvariable.
Privacy
The integration only talks to the Tilt Pi, on your local network, over HTTP. Of its answers it keeps only the colour, the gravity and the temperature.
Credits
Built after michaelheyman/tilt-pi
(MIT, Michael Heyman), the library of the Tilt Pi integration of Home
Assistant: the route, the fields and their units are ported to JavaScript.
Its notice is in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md. Tilt is a trademark of its
owner; this connector is free and unofficial.
Konfigurationseinstellungen
Diese Einstellungen fragt Tilt Pi in seinem Konfigurationsbildschirm in Gladys ab.
| Einstellung | Typ | Pflichtfeld | Beschreibung |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tilt Pi in Gladys | section | Nein | Unofficial connector, not affiliated with Tilt Hydrometer (Baron Brew Equipment). It reads the Tilt hydrometers floating in your fermenters through the Tilt Pi app running on a Raspberry Pi on your network, by its local HTTP API, without any cloud: the specific gravity and the temperature of each Tilt, one Gladys device per Tilt colour. The Tilt Pi listens to the Tilts over Bluetooth on its Raspberry Pi; Gladys never uses Bluetooth. Read only: nothing is ever changed on the Tilt Pi. Never tested with a real Tilt Pi. |
| Tilt Pi address | string | Nein | The IP address (or host name) of the Raspberry Pi running Tilt Pi, with a port only if it is not 1880 (the port of the Tilt Pi page). Preferably give it a fixed address in your router; if it changes, enter the new one: the devices and their history are kept. |
| Read interval (minutes) | number | Nein | Each read sends one request to the Tilt Pi. Nothing reads sooner, not even the test button, a reconnection or a restart. |
So installierst du Tilt Pi in Gladys
- Öffne in Gladys Integrationen: Tilt Pi erscheint im Katalog neben den nativen Integrationen, mit einem Community-Badge.
- Klicke auf Installieren. Gladys lädt das Docker-Image (
ghcr.io/lm1lc3n7/gladys-tilt-pi:0.1.1) herunter, startet es in einer vom Kern isolierten Sandbox und erzeugt die Oberfläche der Integration (Geräte, Erkennung und Konfiguration). - Öffne den Bildschirm Konfiguration der Integration, fülle die Einstellungen aus und speichere.
- Du kannst sie auch direkt über die URL ihres Repositorys installieren: https://github.com/LM1LC3N7/gladys-tilt-pi.
Tilt Pi benötigt Gladys >=5.1.0. Der Katalog in Gladys wird stündlich aktualisiert, eine neue Version ist also spätestens eine Stunde nach ihrer Veröffentlichung verfügbar.
Du nutzt Gladys noch nicht? Es ist kostenlos und Open Source: folge der Installationsanleitung, um loszulegen.
Über externe Integrationen
Tilt Pi ist eine externe Integration: eine Community-Integration, die als Docker-Container verpackt und auf GitHub veröffentlicht wird. Gladys installiert sie mit einem Klick und führt sie in einer vom Kern isolierten Sandbox aus. Sie wird von LM1LC3N7 veröffentlicht und gepflegt, nicht vom Gladys-Kernteam.
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