Tilt Pi
The Tilt Pi integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] allows you to connect a Tilt Pi to Home Assistant to automatically discover Tilt Hydrometer devices.
The Tilt Pi is a Raspberry Pi-based device that can read data from Tilt Hydrometers and broadcast it over the network. The Tilt Pi can be used to monitor the fermentation of beer, wine, cider, and other beverages.
The benefit of the Tilt Pi is that it can be placed in a location with better reception than the Tilt Hydrometer itself, allowing for more reliable data collection.
For instances where you only have a Tilt Hydrometer and not a Tilt Pi, consider using the Tilt Hydrometer integration.
Prerequisites
- Have a Raspberry Pi with the Tilt Pi software installed.
- Have a Tilt Hydrometer in range of the Tilt Pi.
- Have the IP address or hostname of the Tilt Pi.
Configuration
To add the Tilt Pi integration to your Home Assistant instance, use this My button:
If the above My button doesn’t work, you can also perform the following steps manually:
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Browse to your Home Assistant instance.
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In the bottom right corner, select the
Add Integration button. -
From the list, select Tilt Pi.
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Follow the instructions on screen to complete the setup.
Supported functionality
Entities
After adding the integration, you can add the Tilt Pi device to your Home Assistant. If the Tilt Pi was found and there are Tilt Hydrometers in its range, then entities will be created for each Tilt Hydrometer.
You may then use these entities in automations, scripts, dashboards, and other integrations.
Sensors
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Tilt Hydrometer temperature
- Description: Current temperature of the Tilt Hydrometer.
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Entity name:
tilt_<tilt-pi-color>_temperature
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Tilt Hydrometer gravity
- Description: Current specific gravity of the Tilt Hydrometer.
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Entity name:
tilt_<tilt-pi-color>_gravity
Data updates
The Tilt Pi integration pollsData polling is the process of querying a device or service at regular intervals to check for updates or retrieve data. By defining a custom polling interval, you can control how frequently your system checks for new data, which can help optimize performance and reduce unnecessary network traffic. [Learn more] the Tilt Pi for data every 60 seconds. This interval is currently not configurable.
Supported devices
The following devices are known to be supported by the integration:
Removing the integration
This integration follows standard integration removal. No extra steps are required.
To remove an integration instance from Home Assistant
- Go to Settings > Devices & services and select the integration card.
- From the list of devices, select the integration instance you want to remove.
- Next to the entry, select the three dots
menu. Then, select Delete.