Typica

Episodes

1. 12

   Why Typica 2?

   Talking about why I'm working on a redesign/rewrite of Typica.

   Jul 31, 2022
2. 11

   Roast Scheduling in Typica 1.9

   The roasting schedule feature was added in Typica 1.9 to make it easier for roasting companies to split the roasting work flow up among multiple stations. Previously, it was challenging to adopt a workflow other than having one person weigh the...

   Jul 14, 2018
3. 10

   Data Acquisition with the Diedrich IR-1 Profile Lab Roaster

   How I have Typica set up at a Diedrich IR-1 Profile Lab Roaster to record temperature, fuel setting, airflow setting, and communicate with a scale for measuring green and roasted weights. Since making this, I've also added [degree of roast measure...

   Jul 12, 2018
4. 9

   Roasting Coffee with Rate of Change Data in Typica

   Also known (unfortunately) as Rate of Rise, the rate of change of the temperature of a coffee during roasting can be used to more quickly notice when a batch is diverging from a roasting plan. This derived data series is most useful when calculate...

   Jul 11, 2018
5. 8

   Annotation Controls - Typica Tips

   An overview of the annotation controls available in Typica. All of these are now in current release versions of Typica. You can also see an example of Typica communicating with simulated hardware on Linux using ModbusPal and tty0tty.

   Jul 11, 2018
6. 7

   Calibrating Roast Profiles Between 2 Coffee Roasters

   With Typica, it's easy to set up multiple coffee roasters such that measurements are presented in a way that's mutually calibrated. By presenting data such that development milestones appear to occur at the same temperatures, it's easier to match ...

   Jul 10, 2018
7. 6

   How to Connect a Coffee Roaster to a Computer

   This shows a very old version of Typica, data acquisition hardware that has become very expensive, and a coffee roaster that is no longer manufactured, but the basic concepts work for any coffee roaster that uses ungrounded thermocouples for tempe...

   Jul 10, 2018
8. 5

   User Switching in Typica 1.8

   Typica 1.8 changed how Typica logs who recorded which activities. This enabled a faster and easier way to switch the currently logged in user.

   Jul 6, 2018
9. 4

   Manual Log Entry in Typica 1.8

   While it's almost always better to use Typica with supported data acquisition hardware, it's possible to use Typica without that and with some machines, particularly older sample roaster designs, the quality of measurements available may mean it m...

   Jul 6, 2018
10. 3

    Green Coffee Inventory Tracking with Typica

    The main data entry tasks for tracking green coffee inventory using Typica. Entering data accurately and consistently is key to getting usable reports based on that data.

    Jun 29, 2018
11. 2

    Coffee Roast Profile Translation in Typica - Initial Experimental Findings

    Demonstration and reasoning behind the roast profile translation feature that was introduced in Typica 1.4.

    Jun 26, 2018
12. 1

    Degree of Roast Measurements in Typica

    How to set up and use degree of roast measurements in Typica, including how to set up network access for the Javalytics JAV-RDA-D. Degree of roast measurements provide a valuable check on how consistently you're roasting coffees. With Typica yo...

    Jun 25, 2018