Interesting features of the Half Decent Scale

Some interesting things about the Half Decent Scale, that we think differentiate it significantly from other scales:

• Fully compatible with the Full Height Decent Scale, so it's already supported by a wide variety of software: Beanconquerer | Act Four | Filtru | Espresso Log | Smart Espresso Profiler | Pressensor | PyDecentScale | Color bar manager | de1app
• A wide variety of free web apps from Decent, which work using Chrome on desktop computers and Android when using bluetooth, USB or wifi, as well as on iOS devices (iPhone/iPad) when using wifi weighing. The apps we provide:
  • Timed weighing, with export to CSV
  • Helpful app for dosing to the same goal weight, over and over (such as 18g beans doses for espresso)
  • Quality Control weighing of different samples of the same object, to ensure weight consistency (within stated tolerances) of many objects
  • Barcode enabled weighing: scan an object, then weight it, and both are saved to a CSV, such as partially consumed liquor bottles.
  • Cocktail maker : step-by-step assistance is adding the right amount of each ingredient in a recipe. Can be used for other recipes, such as hair dye color mixing.
  • Remote controlled dosing: turn power on a remote device (coffee grinder, water pump) and turn the power off when the goal weight is reached. Works via Home Control smart power plugs.
• USB, wifi and bluetooth weight communications.
• Easy firmware upgrades via Wifi or USB, released on a regular schedule.
• Two full time programmers: one on the firmware, the other on apps. Both releasing regularly at no cost to you, and open sourced.
• Precision 50g calibration weight included, so you can perfectly recalibrate your scale, yourself.
• Totally open source.  Chassis, PCB and Firmware are all open.  https://github.com/decentespresso/openscale
• 14.5mm height, just slightly less tall than Acaia
• A very long lived rechargeable battery (this is the most expensive part in it, actually)
• Super simple user interface, that doesn't require you to keep a manual nearby
• Price wise, I think we're competitive with the latest batch of name brand scales that aren't Acaia.
• It has a full computer in it, and we're committing to regular functionality updates via firmware, like we do with the DE1.  It's the same ESP32 microprocessor that the Gagguino runs on, for instance.

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