Ever since reading Edward Tufte's Envisioning Information, John had wanted to view his espresso shots with a "ghosts from the past" approach. Lines from many previous shots are faintly drawn, but in such a way that as each line crosses over another, it makes the result darker.  This lets you compare the current espresso to your past ones, simply communicated

All our customers now have access to these cloud-based visualizations in our latest apps.

In the graph above, looking at the end of the shot's flow, you can see that this shot ran a bit faster than the others : it's a an outlier. At the time, noticed a lower part of the untamped coffee grounds, and... yes, it did result in a slightly faster (likely slightly side-extracting) espresso.

This chart is the start of many cloud-based features we'll be offering, for free, to all our espresso machines owners.

If you login to your account on our website, you'll now find a "Your Espresso Machines" button. If you're running the current version of Decaid, or the Nightly version of the de1app, you have a "Shot uploader" extension that will send all your espresso to the Decent Espresso Cloud. It'll also send (over a few days) your back-history.

Here's how to enable the shot uploader

Step 1: Link your machine to your account

For this to work, your machine must be linked to your account.

If you purchased your machine from someone else, you first need to contact us to transfer the machine over to you with the following info:

Your full name

Your address and phone number

The email address, with which you want to receive access to the forum

A photo of the serial number of the machine

A Google form, filled out (we'll send you the link).

We'll also need the confirmation of the previous owner that this machine was indeed sold, not stolen.

Note that you need to log in using the email address and password of the account, to which your machine is linked. If you use another email address, it won't work.

In the de1app, you can log into your account on Settings (cog wheel) -> APP.

In decaid, you're asked to link your account once you start it up. If you skipped the step, return to Dashboard, click on Account and log in.

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Step 2: Enable the shot uploader in the app

In de1app, you currently need to be in the Nightly version for this to work. So, in Nightly, click on Settings -> App -> Extentions and put a checkmark into "Shot Upload". Click on Ok in Extensions and Ok in App and then start de1app again. Shot Uploader should now be enabled.

In decaid, in the Dashboard, go into plugins and scroll down to "Decent shot upload" and enable it there.

Your shots should now automatically upload tot he Decent cloud.

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