Stop-at-weight espresso improvements
In yesterday's Decent Factory Livestream Mark and John demonstrated how the Decent Espresso machine can now tolerate you fiddling your cup even while using the “stop at weight” scale feature
The problems that John is trying to resolve are:
- after starting to make espresso, the barista notices that the espresso is not being completely captured by the cup, because the cup was not placed correctly.
- In moving the cup to the right position,
- they accidentally trigger an early “stop at weight”
- and the espresso is ruined.
- after starting to make espresso, the barista realizes they forgot to put the cup under the portafilter.
- They put the cup on,
- but it weighs so much more than an espresso, that the shot immediately has a “stop at weight” occur,
- ruining the espresso.
John demonstrated two new features, that are now available in the de1app:
- stop-at-weight now will ignore weight changes during preinfusion.
- The assumption is that preinfusion should never be enough to be considered a complete espresso (hence, the name “preinfusion” !).
- This feature fixes problem #1, so you can now move your cup around during preinfusion, even while using the stop-at-weight feature.
- profiles can now be set to “tare” (zero) the scale during their preinfusion cycle.
- If no espresso is expected to be dripping it out, then this lets the barista place the cup onto the scale, even after the START button has been pressed, and the cup weight be noticed and zeroed out.
- This feature fixes problem #2, where you forgot to put a cup on the scale and already started to make espresso.
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 2025/03/29