lucianthorr / pytilt

Tool for reading your Tilt brewing hydrometer in python on a rasberry pi and send the data to a server.

Pytilt

Tool for reading your Tilt brewing hydrometer1 in python on a rasberry pi and send the data to a server.

Installation

0. git clone https://github.com/atlefren/pytilt.git
1. Install pyhton-bluez: sudo apt-get install python-bluez
2. Make the bluetooth interface accessible witout being root: sudo setcap cap_net_raw+eip /usr/bin/python2.7

Running

0. From the directory containing pytilt.py run python pytilt.py

Running Pytilt in the background and on System Start

0. edit pytilt.service, add your key and fix paths
1. copy pytilt.service to /lib/systemd/system/
2. sudo chmod 644 /lib/systemd/system/pytilt.service
3. sudo systemctl daemon-reload
4. sudo systemctl enable pytilt.service
5. sudo reboot

Acknowledgements

The code in blescan-py is adapted from https://github.com/switchdoclabs/iBeacon-Scanner- The Tilt UUID-to-color mapping is taken from: https://github.com/tbryant/brewometer-nodejs Systemd-config here: http://www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk/2015/10/how-to-autorun-a-python-script-on-boot-using-systemd/