Acaia Espresso App
The primary app for all Acaia scales is Acaia Espresso. It was once deliberate as no longer just a knowledge logger and low brew diary, but additionally as a web based espresso evaluate group, permitting you to percentage your “brew prints” (as they name them) with different espresso fans who use the app and feature registered a group account.
When hooked up for your Acaia scale, it collects brewing knowledge together with the espresso bean weight, water weight, the pour time and quantity, and shows the size’s energetic timers and activates. You’ll arrange a brewing taste for quite a lot of brewing strategies, together with when to pause, and what sort of water quantity to pour over a collection time.
You’ll additionally take photos of your brews, dictate tasting and low notes, put within the espresso’s beginning notes, and much more knowledge. You’ll percentage all of it inside the inbuilt group. In principle, it’s tremendous function wealthy and bold.
In observe? To be brutally fair, the Acaia Espresso app hasn’t ever labored smartly on Android platforms, and has some very deficient opinions within the Google Play Retailer to again this up. In the previous couple of years, even the iOS opinions are damaging. The size doesn’t appear to hook up with apps working on contemporary flagship smartphones, together with the Samsung S21, S22 and S23 sequence, and Google’s Pixel 7 sequence.
The app may be horribly outdated in design and talent. It was once designed on iOS, and ported over to Android, eschewing all of Android’s local Subject matter Design cues. Whilst you do have it operating on a tool that may attach for your scale (as an example, I will be able to run connect with the size the usage of the Acaia Espresso app on a 2016 Google Pixel telephone), portions are damaged, like exporting your brew prints to pictures or social media like Instagram.
The Brewmaster App
The Brewmaster App was once presented across the time the Acaia Lunar scale was once presented, giving a extra visible, no frills actual time readout of drift charges and timings.
The app is an information logger having the ability to upload notes, espresso knowledge, and extra. It additionally does the “brew print” view of the pour of your water, just like the Acaia Espresso app does. It features a espresso ratio converter, and it could possibly (consistent with the iOS description) assist you to percentage your brewprints with pals, although, just like the Acaia Espresso app, this capability turns out damaged.
What’s attention-grabbing is one of the issues promised from the app within the Google Play Retailer description. It seems that this app was once intended to paintings with the Sette 270W sequence grinders. Many don’t know this, however the Sette 270W sequence have a bluetooth module put in that… doesn’t do anything else.
Acaia was once additionally making plans on charging, as a paid upload on, for an information export function by the use of .CSV recordsdata.
This app additionally does no longer connect with the size on my Pixel 7 Professional telephone, however curiously sufficient, does connect with the size on a Huawei P30 Professional (the Acaia Espresso app does no longer).
Acaia Updater
Acaia additionally has a devoted firmware updating app for his or her scales. I’ll be fair, in response to my stories with Acaia’s different apps, I’m all the time deathly afraid to make use of this app when updating the scales and their firmwares. But it surely’s labored each and every time I’ve attempted it to this point, so long as I run it on a legacy sensible telephone. It received’t connect with my scales from my present telephone (the aforementioned Pixel 7 Professional).
Tips to Acaia
So it’s established that all of the app revel in with Acaia and their scales is… terrible. I’ve some ideas for them (and I will have to word, I’ve given those ideas privately previously at once to Acaia’s proprietor). There’s 3 instructions Acaia can pass.
Reboot The entirety
If the hooked up app and are living recording revel in is vital to Acaia, they want to retire all their apps and rebuild the whole thing from scratch, the usage of a reliable app developer. Additionally they need to construct fully local for Android in addition to iOS. I’d even pass the additional step to have identical functionally in each platform apps, however give them the “glance” of each and every platform, in my opinion. Android with their Subject matter Design interface, and iOS with… no matter iOS is in this day and age.
My advice is get started with the Brewmaster app, however rebrand it as “Brewmaster Lite” or identical. Get the entire core scale capability operating bulletproof in that app: knowledge logging, brew print, espresso notes, espresso library, ratio calculations, pour charges, a replayable visual field of the pour (by the use of the pour chart), and extra. Have other view modes: a are living pour mode that shows handiest pertinent knowledge in the actual time brewing, and a total brew print mode that shows the entire details about each and every brew after the truth.
Construct just right output gear: a visible symbol of the brew print, a bigger symbol appearing espresso notes, footage taken and so on, and a properly laid out PDF of all of the brew print. Design the facility to output the are living brew mode as a .mp4 video document.
As soon as that’s completed, construct the Brewmaster Professional app. It will use Brewmaster Lite as its core, however incorporate Acaia’s group options, complicated sharing past the stuff discovered within the lite model, and exportable knowledge logging. Fee cash for it. Deal with and replace each apps often.
Opt for the Fundamentals
The second one possibility is, retire all present apps, sundown the group options, and simply construct a rock cast knowledge logging and brew print app that has high quality percentage options. Have a normal model, and a “professional” model for roasters and such that experience exportable knowledge logging knowledge.
Apparently sufficient, there may be an app available in the market that in fact works with some Acaia scales and may be very extremely reviewed: the Bean Conqueror App. It will be in reality sensible for Acaia to simply rent this fellow to construct a completely new reputable app for his or her scales. This may well be Acaia’s new “fundamental”.
Give Up
The 3rd possibility is, simply surrender at the complete hooked up app factor. Have a fundamental app for updating firmware that in fact works on present smartphones, and get in touch with it an afternoon.
