John's "best of" v1.39 de1app - release announcement
A new version of the de1app (v1.39) is now available, the result of about 6 months' work by a variety of contributors.
Here's my personal summary of the most interesting things in it:
New espresso making profiles:
- new “D-Flow” user interface and espresso profile from Damian. Anchored on the Londonium recipe, but D-Flow gives you coffee-related user interface controls. The recipe magically alters itself to conform. Hugely simplifies recipe creation, when your anchor recipe is the very-popular Londonium LRv2
- Two new “Turbo” profiles (TurboBloom, TurboTurbo) by Joe D, extremely popular new fast-shot espresso making method (search Youtube for “turbo shots”)
- new “Adaptive” profile, which mixes “best practices” from several profiles (temperature profiling, Blooming/Londonium bybrid) and adapt-to-the-grind qualities from Jonathan Gagné's research. Currently, it's most used profile on https://visualizer.coffee/
- New Filter 2.1 profile from Scott Rao, for making filter coffee from an espresso basket. https://www.instagram.com/p/CUX9Zlave3v/
- New “I got your back” profile from Shinguk, an attempt to make a profile that always produces a pleasing drink, no matter what dose or grind
- New “tea in basket” profile, for making brewed tea in a normal portafilter basket
Plugins:
- Visualizer plugin to https://visualizer.coffee/ now lets you download all the parameters other people used to make their shots, so you can mimic them
- Support for Acaia Lunar 2021 scale
- Big improvements to Enrique's DYE (Describe your Espresso) plugin, a kind of “notebook” for keeping track of your drinks. Also includes a history and shot comparison viewer.
Contributed skins to the de1app:
- New “Mini Metric” skin from Barney, super simple, colorful.
- New “dark mode” version of Insight skin
- Removed the more geeky chart lines to make everyday experience with zoomed Insight charts easier to read at a glance. Checkboxes to turn those back on (ie, Puck Restistance, and Weight Detail)
Other:
- quickly change the temperature of all steps in a profile, all at once, with new +/- buttons on the Profile preview page.
- new “move on to next step, by scale weight” feature added by Johanna
- Make hot water start faster. Use heater metal temperature as gate instead of mixer hot input value.
- Espresso water can go up to 105ºC, useful for tea infusions and some espresso extraction ideas
A lot is planned for the next de1app, as the overarching goal for this just-finished version was stability: stamping out bugs, making everything work well together. This is the most stable and well rounded version of the de1app, and I'm very proud of what we've all accomplished together.
This is a “stable” release, and is available to all DE1 owners for free. It's fully compatible with all models, all the way back to v1.0.
A complete listing of what's new is in App Release 1.39 for the de1app and Firmware update log (de1app v1.37->v1.39) firmware v1193->v1293 for the firmware. The bullet points above are what I personally found best.
After updating the app, go to settings->machine to check to see there's a firmware update applicable to your DE1.
Related reading: ð’ Firmware update log (de1app v1.37->v1.39) firmware v1193->v1293
This is a light weight update as the community work is slowly moving over to the pyde1 system in their work. Hop over to https://3.basecamp.com/3671212/buckets/7351439/messages/3784265361 for the latest discussions there.
We currently have 307 commits to the main branch since v1.37 with the following contributor distribution:
- 134 Commits Johanna
- 91 Commits John
- 63 Commits Enrique
- 2 Commits “ufergus”
- 1 Commit “kuy”
- 1 Commit “nowstuseeit”
(taken from: https://github.com/decentespresso/de1app/graphs/contributors?from=2021-09-17&to=2022-02-26&type=c)
The full list of changes can be access here: https://github.com/decentespresso/de1app/compare/v1.37…v1.39
Discussion: Nightly 1.37-1.38 - Decent Diaspora
Who to thank for which feature in the community:
- DYE Plugin: Enrique
- Visualizer.coffee: Miha
- MimojaCafe skin: Johanna
- Support for Acaia Lunar 2021: Johanna
- metric & mini metric skin: Barney
- DSx skin: Damian
Updated 2022/03/31