TILT Bluetooth Hydrometer – $126 AND Free Shipping! + Hands on Review
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Designed specifically for homebrewers, the Tilt Hydrometer & Thermometer monitors both the specific gravity and temperature of your batch while its fermenting without having to open your fermenter and waste your beer for test samples, allowing you to brew more consistent batches of beer and makes each batch much easier to track. Using the Tilt App (Available Here!) you can instantly check on your batches readings using an Apple iPhone/iPad or Android smartphone/tablet. Designed with a high precision temperature sensor and accelerometer, the Tilt monitors your batch with a fine degree of control. The specific gravity is accurate +/- 0.002 within the Tilt’s 0.990 to 1.120 range. The included thermometer is accurate +/- 1 degree F. The increased transmission power of the Tilt gives it better reception and range, allowing it to send data through large, thick-walled fermenters and it will work with most Bluetooth 4.0+ devices. The Tilt was also built with efficiency in mind. The reduced power consumption allows to to use you Tilt batch after batch with the same battery. Each Tilt comes calibrated and ready to use with an included battery. Battery life is 12-24 months depending on usage. Easy to use, the Tilt makes a great addition to any brewhouse. Simply download the app, sanitize your Tilt, drop it into your fermenter, and start taking readings!
The Tilt Hydrometers comes in a rainbow of colors to brighten up your brew supplies, but these colors are not just cosmetic. Use a different color Tilt to monitor multiple batches of beer at the same time. The Tilt App will not read multiple hydrometers of the same color.
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The Multipurpose Sensor can do several things including monitor temperature
The other piece to the puzzle was a smart plug to tum the kegerator/freezer/fridge off and on as needed. I used a 
Initially I had planned to use the open/close sensing feature of this sensor for this project. However, the space between the body of my beer fridge and the door itself was too large. Fortunately, this sensor also detects vibration. That means my setup was as easy as placing this in the door. Depending on your refrigerator, you may be able to use the open/close sensor.
Here you can see an alert that my beer fridge was opened. Setting that up is as easy as setting up an Automation task in SmartThings to send an alert when vibration is detected. I found this to be a fairly reliable system although I did get some false positives. Example, I periodically received notice when the freezer door was opened. Playing with the sensor location and orientation could help with that.
Programming this alert is straightforward. I Just added an automation that is activated when vibration is detected. I chose to “send notification to members” which sends a notification to users of the app. Text message notifications are also an option.
The Multipurpose Sensor also monitors temperatures. Super handy to make sure your kegerator or keezer is doing it’s job.
You can also take action based on temperature. This screenshot shows an alert I received telling me my beer fridge was too warm. I set the threshold temp to 10 to trigger this alert as you can see from the notification. That’s just so I could get a screenshot, of course, you’d want to choose a reasonable temp.
Programming this alert is straightforward. I Just added an automation that is activated when the Multipurpose Sensor goes above a certain set point. In this case, 40 degrees. You could just as easy write another automation to let you know if it gets too cold. I chose to “send notification to members” which sends a notification to users of the app. Text message notifications are also an option.
