DYE2 ("Describe Your Espresso 2") is the shot log for Decaid. It keeps a record of every shot you pull, with the coffee, grinder, grind setting, rating and tasting notes, and it lets you save recipes and favourites that you can bring back with one tap.

DYE2 works together with the Streamline skin. Once it is switched on, tap the DYE button at the top right of the Streamline home screen to open it.

Switch DYE2 on

DYE2 comes with Decaid, so you normally don't need to install anything. If it is missing, you can add it like any other plugin: here's how to install plugins in Decaid.

To turn it on in Streamline:

Tap Settings on the Streamline home screen.

Go to Extensions and open the DYE2 entry.

Turn on the switch "Show DYE auto-favourites and recipes on the dashboard header".

If the DYE2 plugin isn't installed or is too old, Streamline tells you and offers an Install button.

When DYE2 is on, two things appear at the top of the Streamline home screen: the DYE button, and three small round buttons on the left marked P, F and R. These switch the row of buttons next to them between your Profiles (P), your Favourites (F) and your Recipes (R).

If you ever need to leave a screen and get back to Decaid's own dashboard, here's how to get back to the dashboard in Decaid.

The DYE2 dashboard

The DYE2 dashboard is split in two:

Left side: the shot you already pulled. You see its graph, profile, dose and drink weight, time, ratio, coffee, grinder, grind setting, barista and drinker, plus a row of five stars.

Right side: the shot you are about to pull. Everything here goes into the settings the machine uses for your next shot.

At the bottom of the left side are three buttons:

Edit Shot opens the full shot editor. The small arrow next to it opens a menu with Delete Shot.

DYE Settings opens Favourites, Recipes or Equipment.

Visualizer lets you upload the shot on screen to visualizer.coffee, or log in to your Visualizer account. This needs Decaid's Visualizer plugin.

Log a shot

Rate the shot you just pulled

Open DYE2 after your shot. The newest shot is on the left. Tap a star to rate it. The rating is saved straight away, there is no extra step.

To add a tasting note, measure TDS and extraction, or correct the coffee or grind, tap Edit Shot (see "Edit a past shot" below). Read Note shows the note saved with the shot.

Plan the next shot

On the right side:

Dose and Drink are the grams of coffee in and grams of espresso out. The brew ratio is shown under the drink weight.

Grind and RPM are your grind setting and grinder speed. The row of grinder names above them shows which grinder these numbers belong to. Tap a name to switch grinder.

Tap the profile name to choose a different profile.

Tap the Beans card to choose a different coffee. It shows the roaster and how many days it is since roasting.

Tap Basket to pick the basket you are using.

Tap Barista or Drinker and type a name. Names you've used before are offered in a list.

Add Note writes a note for the next shot. After you pull it, the note appears under Read Note on the left.

Use the − and + buttons to change a number, or tap the number once and type a new value. The keyboard opens on the first tap. Press Enter to accept, or tap somewhere else, which also accepts what you typed.

Most changes on the right side are saved as you make them. DONE saves and closes DYE2, CANCEL closes it.

Two buttons in the top right corner of the right side are handy:

The clipboard button copies every setting from the shot shown on the left into the next shot. This is the quickest way to repeat a shot you liked. Press DONE afterwards to keep it.

The undo button goes back to the values you had before your last change. Tap it again to redo.

Clear empties the next-shot settings. Like the clipboard copy, it only takes effect when you press DONE.

Find an old shot

Use the ‹ and › arrows at the top of the left side to step through your shots. DYE2 can reach your whole history. Older shots are loaded as you go, so the first step past the most recent shots may pause for a moment.

The button between the arrows switches between All Shots and Same Beans. Same Beans only shows shots made with the same coffee from the same roaster as the shot on screen.

Search and filter

Tap the magnifying glass to search. You can type in the search box to look for any word in the coffee name, roaster, profile, grinder or tasting notes.

Below the search box are filters for Bean, Roaster, Grinder, Profile and Rating:

Tap a filter and pick from the list.

For Rating, tap a star to show only shots rated that many stars or more. Tap the same star again to remove the rating filter.

Filters work together. Pick a bean and 4 stars, and you see only your 4 and 5 star shots of that bean.

Once you have picked one filter, the other lists shrink to what is still possible. For example, after picking a bean, the Profile list only shows profiles you have used with that bean.

The × in a filter removes just that filter. Clear filters removes them all.

The title at the top shows where you are in the results, for example "1/8". A small dot on the magnifying glass reminds you that a search or filter is active.

Edit a past shot

The shot editor lets you fix or complete the details of any shot: dose, drink weight, TDS and extraction yield, beans, grinder, grind setting, RPM, feed rate, basket, equipment, barista, drinker, tasting notes and rating.

There are two ways to open it:

From DYE2: tap Edit Shot on the left side of the dashboard.

From the Streamline home screen: in the shot history panel at the bottom, tap the shot's date, its profile name, its dose or its grind size. The shot opens in DYE2's editor with everything already filled in, including the drink weight. This only works while DYE2 is switched on.

Things to know in the shot editor:

Nothing is saved until you tap SAVE SHOT DATA. This includes the stars, which work differently here than on the dashboard.

If you opened the editor from the Streamline home screen, SAVE SHOT DATA saves and takes you straight back there. CANCEL goes back without saving.

The arrows at the top move to the previous or next shot without leaving the editor.

Read From fills the form from the Current Workflow (your next-shot settings) or from the Previous Shot, so you only need to correct what was different.

Save as Recipe starts a new recipe from this shot, including any corrections you just made.

Delete Shot removes the shot after asking you. This cannot be undone.

Tap the beans card to change the coffee, or the grinder field to choose another grinder.

Recipes

A recipe stores a complete set of settings for a drink: the profile, the coffee, dose, drink weight, brew temperature, steam, flush, hot water, the grinder, grind setting, RPM and feed rate, plus barista and drinker.

Where your recipes appear

Up to five recipes can have their own button. The same five buttons, in the same order, appear in two places:

on the R row at the top of the Streamline home screen, and

as the row of recipe buttons at the top right of the DYE2 dashboard.

All your other recipes are kept in your recipe library.

Use a recipe

Tap a recipe button. Its settings are loaded straight away, including its profile.

If the recipe has no coffee set, loading it clears the coffee, roaster and bag from your next shot. That way a shot is never logged under the coffee from the recipe you used before.

The changed marker

After you load a recipe, its button stays highlighted. If you then change something, such as the dose, grind, profile, basket, or the steam, flush or hot water settings, a * appears after the recipe name. It means your current settings no longer match the recipe.

Your changes are not written into the recipe on their own. A one-off change stays a one-off. To keep what you dialled in, long press the recipe's button on the Streamline R row and choose Save changes. Only the values you actually changed are saved.

The same long press menu also offers Edit in DYE2, Replace (put a different recipe from your library on this button) and Clear button (take the recipe off the button; it stays in your library).

Create or edit a recipe

Open DYE Settings → Recipes. You see all your recipes as cards.

Tap a card to select it, then tap CONFIRM to use it.

Tap a selected card again, or press and hold a card, to edit it.

ADD NEW RECIPE creates a new one.

Use the buttons on the left to sort your recipes, including Most Used and Rating (the average rating of the shots made with each recipe).

In the recipe editor:

The five buttons along the top stand for the five recipe buttons. Tap one to give this recipe that button, or tap the highlighted one again to keep the recipe in the library only. If another recipe already has that button, the save button asks you to confirm before replacing it.

Choose a coffee under Assign Bean and a profile under Assign Profile. See All Beans and See All Profiles open the full lists. Tapping a profile fills in its dose, drink weight and brew temperature for you.

Set the numbers under Dashboard Variables. The small values under each number are shortcuts: tap one to jump to that value.

Read From fills the recipe from your current settings or from a favourite.

Show on Streamline Dashboard controls whether the recipe can appear on the recipe buttons.

Tap SAVE RECIPE to keep your changes.

Favourites

Auto-favourites

DYE2 builds favourites for you from your shot history. Each auto-favourite is a combination of coffee, profile and grinder you have used recently. They are ranked by how well you rated those shots and how recently and often you made them. You don't need to do anything to create them.

The top four appear on the F row at the top of the Streamline home screen. Tap one to load it. The fifth button, VIEW ALL AUTO FAV, opens the full list in DYE2.

You can also open the list from DYE Settings → Favourites. The buttons at the top group the favourites by Beans, Recipe, Profile or Grinder. Tap a card to select it and CONFIRM to load it.

Pin a favourite to a position

Normally the four buttons on the F row change as your shot history changes. To keep a favourite in a fixed spot:

Press and hold its card in DYE2 (or tap a selected card again). This opens Edit Auto Favourite.

Under Assign Fav Number, tap 1, 2, 3 or 4. This is its position on the F row. Tap the number again to unpin it.

Tap SAVE.

The favourite now stays in that position, and the other positions keep filling with your best recent auto-favourites. Only one favourite can hold each number. If you pick a number that is already taken, the favourite that had it loses its spot.

In the same screen you can give the favourite a title and a beverage, and under Data to Copy choose exactly what it loads. Each row has its own switch, so a favourite can, for example, load a grind setting and profile without changing your coffee. The pencil at the end of a row lets you type a value by hand.

On the Streamline F row, a long press on a favourite offers Edit in DYE2, Save to recipes (turn it into a recipe in your library) and Clear button.

Grinders and beans

Grinders

To open your grinder library, tap the word Grind on the right side of the DYE2 dashboard (the label, not the number). Tap ADD NEW GRINDER to add one, or tap a grinder to edit it.

To go straight to one grinder, press and hold its name in the row of grinder names on the DYE2 dashboard.

A grinder records its model (the only required field), burrs, burr type and size, setting type, step sizes, a Feed Rate and notes. Feed rate is free text, so you can write what suits your grinder, for example "FF / MF / SF" for a manual feed or a feeder RPM range.

The feed rate you actually used for a shot goes in the Feed Rate field next to Setting and RPM in the shot editor and the recipe editor.

Beans

Tap the Beans card on the right side of the dashboard to open your coffee library.

Tap a coffee to select it, then tap the button at the top right to use it. If the coffee has no roaster yet, the button says SELECT ROASTER and you choose the roaster on the next screen.

ADD NEW BEANS opens a form for a new coffee: name and roaster (both required), roast date, origin, processing, roast level, price, weights, dates and notes. Fill in as much or as little as you like.

IMPORT FROM BEANCONQUEROR reads a Beanconqueror backup and creates the matching coffees, bags and grinders. It won't overwrite coffee details you have already typed, and you can run it again after a later export without creating duplicates.

The pencil on a card opens that coffee for editing.

DYE2 keeps one entry for each coffee and a separate entry for each bag you buy, so the same coffee bought twice keeps both roast dates.

Things that don't work yet

These buttons are on screen but don't do anything yet, so you are not doing anything wrong:

Export Shot and View Text Profile in the menu next to Edit Shot.

The magnifying glass in the shot editor. Use the one on the DYE2 dashboard instead.

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