Three new bluetooth Decent Scale apps
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:
- Weigh several objects in a row
- Save each weight
- Show and save the rate of change (ie, flow rate)
- Export the results to CSV or JSON files
Here are some use cases:
- Imagine that you are making a coffee pour over, and want to see the total weight and flow rate.
- And perhaps you want the history to be saved, so you know what you did, when the taste is good.
- Or perhaps you're a cafe and you want to see how each of your employees makes hand-poured coffee.
- Or imagine that you're a restaurant and you need to weigh several pieces of fish. This will make that easy.
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:
- You are a cafe and want to quickly check that the pre-weight 18g doses of beans you have in front of you, really are 18g. And quickly reject those that are too far out.
- You are a food service that sells portions of cake, stated to be a certain weight. You want to make sure each slice is at least the stated weight, and reject those which are not.
- You are a restaurant, looking at preportioned fish. Each piece needs to be close to the same weight, so that each cooks in the same amount of time.
- You are buying a large quantity of the same object. For example, ceramic coffee cups. You want to quickly weigh all of them, to see which cups are much heavier than the others, and thus should either be rejected or sold at a discount for being less delicate than desired.
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 a cafe and need to quickly weigh out 18g gram bean doses, and store them for later use.
- You are a restaurant and need to cut and portion out meat in close-to-identical weights.
- You are a manufacturer, and need to portion out, into packaging, the same amount of product.
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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Updated 2025/03/30