thorrak
Log notes or recordings on a brew timeline
Suggestion...
When I'm brewing, I might make measurements (gravity) or observations at certain days during the fermentation. Perhaps there was a power cut or the fridge door was left open which affected the temperature, and I wanted to note down when that was, or I want to record the point at which additional hops went it, or what the manual gravity measurement was on a certain day (spindel not working yet)
It would be good to add day/time logged notes as the brew progressed. These could be indicated also on the graph, as points that would reveal a title when clicked.
Basically trying to get more done with Fermentrack and rely less on manual methods.
Ideally I'd be taking photos as well and be able to upload these.... and then it would become a cloud based platform, I could access it remotely, and I could share and publish brews ... and I'l stop dreaming now!
Adding annotations to a beer shouldn't be too difficult, and fits with the current logging model. In my head I would want the ability to add data points as of a specific time (not just to the current point being logged).
To implement this, we'd just need to scan the CSV, find the two data points surrounding the time we want to annotate, duplicate the earlier of the two data points (assuming the time isn't already present), and add the annotation to the new point.
Adding photos is a bit harder, as that is a new usage model for Fermentrack. It's not hard to add, but my concern would be cluttering the interface for a feature I would only expect a handful of power users to use.
I'm also of the mindset that storing any kind of data you want to persist long term to a Raspberry Pi is a bad idea given the propensity of RasPi SD cards to die at inconvenient times, and the more data that isn't directly associated with the beer graphs gets stored, the less likely a user is to download his/her data and store it somewhere that isn't as prone to random failure. Of course, that concern goes away if there is a cloud service backing Fermentrack up. There are plans for one, but they're looking like a 2019 thing at the moment.
