BCS Virtual Machine
Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2016 9:52 pm
As a brewery that uses multiple BCS-462s for temp control on our beers and a custom UI to interact with all of them at once
I would like to be able to run a simulated BCS on my laptop
So that I don't have to either mess around with the BCS that is controlling the glycol system that is actually fermenting beer or buy a separate BCS just to mess with the programming
Also important: given that the number of tanks I can run on a BCS-462 is limited by the number of inputs, I'd like to be able to run multiple such VMs on different ports. Running multiple BCS-462s on different ports and writing a single screen to aggregate and control them is exactly how I plan to support more tanks than the temp probes on a single BCS could support.
I realize this feature request is a total longshot, but I am fully bought into the BCS as a super legit device for doing the things that we as professional brewers need to do. If I need to buy 2 more BCS-462s just to test my changes, I might consider it. But this would be a super cool way to develop features that could be used reliably at a larger scale than homebrew.
I would like to be able to run a simulated BCS on my laptop
So that I don't have to either mess around with the BCS that is controlling the glycol system that is actually fermenting beer or buy a separate BCS just to mess with the programming
Also important: given that the number of tanks I can run on a BCS-462 is limited by the number of inputs, I'd like to be able to run multiple such VMs on different ports. Running multiple BCS-462s on different ports and writing a single screen to aggregate and control them is exactly how I plan to support more tanks than the temp probes on a single BCS could support.
I realize this feature request is a total longshot, but I am fully bought into the BCS as a super legit device for doing the things that we as professional brewers need to do. If I need to buy 2 more BCS-462s just to test my changes, I might consider it. But this would be a super cool way to develop features that could be used reliably at a larger scale than homebrew.