Software

The FCS software is continiously beeing improved. New features are added based on feedback from users all over the world. Read this section to get a better overview of what the Fluid Control System.

General design principles

The FCS is built with the demanding and advanced users at mind. It brings a lot of flexibility and customization to the user. All this, presented in an intuitive way, makes it very user friendly.

The 5" touch screen is controlled without gestures like scrolling, swiping, sliding, pinching etc. The system does not use double tap, long press, -just simply single tap.

More advanced functions have explanations available by tapping the (i)-symbol.

All settings are stored and will not change due to power off.

Symbols in the top banner uses colors to indicate state.

• Grey - Function is available but OFF

• Green - Function is ON

• Yellow - Function has a warning associated with it

• Red - Malfunction/error

Common functions

The display area is divided into three sections.

The top banner and the bottom menu bar are always available and show Wi-Fi connection, active alarms (if any), heating, cooling, gas in, gas out.

The middle section shows the process data depending on the selected layout.

The bottom menu bar shows different content based on the control mode.

• Toggle between views by taping the four squares.

• Pause - stops all controls and lets you manually override functions or abort to home screen.

• Access quick settings.

Control modes

From the main menu, the following control modes are available.

• Manual control

• Fermentation profile

  • Quick profile

  • Brewtools cloud recipe (Not currently available)

Manual mode

This mode is perfect for operations where you would like to be in control without having automated features. The system continues to run until told otherwise. Data will be logged to cloud as normal.

Quick profile

This lets you configure up to four fermentation steps and one cold crash step. Configure the temperature, pressure, duration (days) as well as whether "gas in" is allowed to get to the pressure setpoint.

The cold crash step is like a fermentation step, but without duration as it will continue to stay in cold crash mode until the user manually stops the process manually, typically after transferring the beer to a brite tank, kegs, can or bottles.

Settings

Settings are divided into two.

1. General settings - Available from the home screen and includes all settings.

2. Quick settings - Available when the system is in an active control mode and includes a selection of relevant settings.

General settings

The general settings are divided into 8 pages.

1. Basic

   1. Language - English is currently only available language

   2. Display brightness - Toggle between: | 25% | 50% | 75% | 100% |

   3. Screensaver delay - Toggle between: | 1min | 15min | 60min | OFF |

   4. Tank name - Give your system a name

   5. System sounds - Toggle between: | ON | OFF |

   6. Alarm/Warning sounds - Toggle between: | ON | OFF |

2. Units / Calculation

   1. Temperature unit - Choose between: | °C | °F |

   2. Pressure unit - Choose between: | psi | bar | kPa |

   3. Volume unit - Choose between: | liter | US gal |

   4. Density unit - Choose between: | SG | °Plato | °Brix |

   5. Weight unit - Choose between: | gram | ounces |

   6. Average location voltage - Toggle between: | 110V | 120V | 230 | 240V |

3. System

   1. Temperature sensor - Choose between: | Temp 1 | Temp 2 | SG internal |

   2. Cooling threshold - Set the threshold to when the cooling starts. If the threshold is 0.3°C and setpoint is 10°C, cooling will start at 10.3°C (Default and reccomended value is 0.3°C). Toggle between: | 0.1°C | 0.2°C | 0.3°C

   3. Heating threshold - Set the threshold to when the heating starts. If the threshold is 0.3°C and setpoint is 10°C, heating will start at 9.7°C (Default and reccomended value is 0.3°C). Toggle between: | 0.2°C | 0.4°C | 0.6°C | 0.8°C | 1°C |

4. Relay configuration

   1. Ext. Relay Control - Choose between: | OFF | 5V | 4-20mA |

   2. Relay 1 - Choose what is connected to the relay 1 port on the I/O module.

   3. Relay 2 - Choose what is connected to the relay 2 port on the I/O module.

   4. Relay 3 - Choose what is connected to the relay 3 port on the I/O module.

   5. Relay 4 - Choose what is connected to the relay 4 port on the I/O module.

5. CAN configuration

   1. CAN port 1 - Choose what is connected to the CAN 1 port on the I/O module.

   2. CAN port 2 - Choose what is connected to the CAN 2 port on the I/O module.

   3. CAN port 3 - Choose what is connected to the CAN 3 port on the I/O module.

   4. CAN port 4 - Choose what is connected to the CAN 4 port on the I/O module.

   5. CAN port 5 - Choose what is connected to the CAN 5 port on the I/O module.

   6. Verify configuration - This function cycles OFF and ON the power to the CAN devices to verify that the setup is correct.

6. Calibration

   1. Pressure sensor calibration - Lets you calibrate youre pressure sensor to compensate for high altitude enviroment.

   2. Density sensor calibration - Lets you calibrate the sensor to water SG 0.000 or a manually inserted value if you have a reference instrument like the Easy Dens from AntonPaar.

   3. Level sensor calibration - Not currently available.

7. Network/Cloud

   1. Wi-Fi enable

   2. Wi-Fi network/SSID

   3. Cloud account

   4. Allow remote control

   5. Wi-Fi status

   6. Internet status

   7. IP address

   8. MAC address

   9. Signal strength

   10. MCU ID

8. Firmware update

   1. Update mode

   2. Device update status

   3. Firmware package and all sub device versions

   4. Update with DEV-code

Quick settings

• Display brightness - Toggle between

• Screensaver delay - Toggle between

• Temperature sensor - Toggle between RTD1, RTD2, SG

• Cooling threshold: (Default: 0.3°C) -

• Heating threshold: (Default: 0.6°C)

• Allow gas in (current step) - This will allow you to override "gass in" in the current step in Quick profile if you forgot to allow it when setting up the profile.

Wi-Fi

FCS supports 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g/n) networks with PSK / WPA2 encryption.

FCC ID is shown upon startup.

Cloud integration

FCS is cloud enabled and uses MQTT to communicate with Brewtools Cloud service which is still under development.

Update

The current software version is shown upon start-up and in the firmware/update settings page.