Last week I received the following information from Speidel:
Irina from Speidel wrote:Hi Niels,
As it has been announced already our new control unit for Braumeister is designed with the function for WLAN connection.
Regarding this we want to provide some information:
- A small piece of additional hardware is available in the 3rd quarter of 2015
- The housing’s surface of the module is aluminum anodised and could be easily clamp to the feet of the Braumeister
- The connection cable has to be screwed to the free connection on the control unit (similar to the temperature sensor)
The monitoring is possible through router or directly as hotspot on the smartphone.
At the moment there is no App available.
The module disposes as a flash adapter.
This allows to update the newest version which would be available online using PC (the cable therefore will be provided)
The price hasn’t been set so far.
But we assume that it is going to be about € 100,-- net
Herewith we have created the possibility for updates and other applications which lead to the edged product.
Cheers!
In short: It will be coming in 2015 Q3 and will cost around € 100,00 + VAT.
Speidel only mentions "monitoring" and not "programming", so we'll have to see how this will be in the final product.
The module will allow to upgrade the firmware of your Braumeister, but it is a bit unclear to me how it works. It looks like you'll have to connect the module to your PC using the provided cable. I hope this will be a standard USB cable and not a proprietary cable (e.g. serial).
I asked Irina/Ralf more information about the software. I want to know if it will be possible for third parties to develop an application that connects with the module. I really hope that Speidel will provide a public API as this way you'll be able to write your own monitoring (and programming) interface if you want.
I've also seen some pictures of the module, but I can't share this at the moment. Probably since it is not the final result yet. I will share any information as soon as I get it.
- Niels