In yesterday's Decent Factory Livestream Mark and John demonstrated three new apps for all Decent Scale owners: Web Weigh, QC weighing and the Dosing Assistant.
The apps all run inside the Chrome browser and work with the new Half Decent Scale, as well as the classic full-height Decent Scale.
There's nothing to install, and they automatically work in Android, Mac OSX, Windows. On Linux bluetooth needs to be enabled via a special Chrome flag.
To find the apps, go to your Decent Support account and you'll see a “Decent Scale” button.
As to today there are 3 apps available, with more coming:
Here is the “weigh and save” app:
It lets you:
Here are some use cases:
Here is the QC (quality control) Assistant:
This lets you weigh the same (or similar) object, very quickly, see which of those objects are within your stated tolerances, and keep a log of the whole thing.
Use cases:
As this is a quite powerful app, with several entry fields, there is a feature to save and restore presets. There are also sound effects that tell you of of a PASS or FAIL without needing to look at the screen.
Here is the Dosing Assistant app.
Some use cases:
You are able to specify the minimum and maximum allowed tolerances, as well as your goal weight. The entire thing is saved to CSV (and JSON) so you can have accurate records.
For a manufacturer or restaurant, where trading standards apply, the ability to audit and prove your portioning, might save you one day from a lawsuit that claims you are short changing people.
Here is the complete livestream video:
Apologies for the slightly distorted audio. Our 1st livestream's audio was too soft, now this one is too loud. We'll get this right soon!
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