Hi Stephen

Don't worry too much about it. Whenever displaying the collective "name" of a bean, Roastmaster simply concatenates all of those fields together in the order those identifiers are displayed - regardless of which field contains the information.

Sometimes Tom will call out which is an estate or market name in the description, often he won't. It would take an awful lot of research to stay on top of that information. Some roasters have a direct relationship with farmers, so that distinction is important to them. Others aren't concerned with it at all. Many of us (myself included) typically just input the full name into the first field - the end result is the same. 

Yes - Roastmaster refers to those as Delta Curves. They are the bottom two curves seen here at 15:40... https://rainfroginc.com/wordpress/documentation/roasting-with-roastmaster-part-4-roast-and-curve-events/

You can enable those globally in Preferences > Analyzer, or two finger tap in the analyzer to toggle them on or off for individual curves.

Hi

I would recommend the Thermal Blue with a K type thermocouple. The ThermaQ Blue communicate with Roastmaster over Bluetooth LE, and is very reliable and accurate. The size of the K type thermocouple you need would depend on the layout of your roaster. The tip should hit the bean mass as closely as possible.

Sorry, no...Roastmaster does not run on Windows.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Danny

Hi

Thanks for the kind words. I thought the same about the Bullet, so I reached out to them last year...wanting to get that ball rolling. I've heard nothing back. That would be the first step. Afterwards, I'd need to determine if the USB C is actually a full-blown USB, or is (as per Apple's style) a watered-down USB - that only passes through certain subsets of protocols (camera, keyboard, etc.). I'm unsure at the moment - I've had my head so deep in electronics manufacturing and the next version of Roastmaster since the iPad pro hit, I haven't been able to export that path since last summer. If so, that would be very easy. If not, there would require a hardware box to receive the USB, and translate into Roastmaster's existing RBP protocol. I'm current entering manufacturing on Bluetooth hardware for thermocouples. After that is underway, I will think of designing a similar hardware device that could do the translations (for all types of roasters with USB) if Apple's USB implementation is NOT as open as I would like. After this hardware, I will be back to tie up a lot of loose strings...one of those will be trying again with the Bullet people to see if they are interested (or manning their web forms better) at that point.

Sorry - no. I've been waiting on LCD screen tooling (took forever). That was the biggest hurdle. Just got the prototypes in about a week or so ago. Working on the final boards and case production now.

No - sorry, the longest roast time is 30 minutes.

Hi Kasper

See attached screenshot.

If you enable the HUD in the Analyzer, you'll see running tallies of the following

1: Drying Stage. This is defined by the presence of an Event, with its type set to "Drying End"
2: Ramp Stage. This is defined as the time from the Drying End Event to the First Crack (beginning of development)
3: Pyrolysis: This is defined by the presence of an Event, with its type set to "Pyrolysis"
4: Development: This is defined as the start of first crack to the end of the roast.

In this HUD, Roastmaster displays real-time tallies of each of these as
1. Duration in minutes and seconds
2. Percentage of time of the whole roast.

So, Roastmaster's Percentage of Development SHOULD correlate to the information on the link you sent, i.e. Rao's Development Time Ratio. Just keep in mind this a percentage, not a true ratio - that's a different thing altogether.

If you're interested in learning how to use events, there's some good information in this screencast.