For coffee roasters pursuing consistent output and flavor reproducibility, Artisan is an invaluable open-source tool. It can connect to temperature recorders or PID controllers to collect bean temperature and air temperature data in real time during the roasting process, automatically generate visual curves, and assist in judging the trends of the dehydration, Maillard, and development stages. This article compiles Artisan's core functions, compatible device list, export and reporting methods, and includes software screenshots and a version update summary. Whether you use Mac, Windows, or Linux, you can use it to optimize the roasting rhythm and make the flavor performance of every batch of Front Street Coffee beans more controllable and more reproducible.
Artisan is an open-source software for coffee roasting professionals, whose core purpose is to record, analyze, and manage the temperature change curves during the roasting process. When used with temperature recorders or proportional-integral-derivative controllers (PID controllers), the system can automatically generate various roasting indicators, providing data support for roasters to adjust the final coffee flavor.
In terms of platform compatibility, Artisan can run on Mac, Windows, Linux, and PPC architecture. The temperature recorders and PID controller models that the software can connect to include:
- Fuji PXR/PXG 4 & 5 PID - Delta DTA PID - Omega HH309, HH506RA, HH802U, HH806AU, HHM28 - CENTER 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 309 - VOLTCRAFT K202, K204, 300K, 302KJ - EXTECH 421509 - Arduino TC4 - TE VA18B - Non-wireless version Amprobe TMD-56 (same as Omega HH806AU) - Virtual device (symbolic device) - No-device mode (manual device) - External program
Artisan supports running multiple temperature recorders simultaneously and can perform symbolic operations on device outputs. Temperature units can be switched between Fahrenheit and Celsius for display and conversion. Users can manually record additional events (such as FCs, FCe, etc.), and can also trigger them through custom event programming buttons. The interface provides large buttons for easy operation on touch panels. The software can display filtered real-time ET/BT rate-of-rise curves and predict the future trends of ET/BT during recording in both metric and thermal head-up display formats.
At the roasting analysis level, Artisan provides curve statistics and evaluation functions based on user-defined roasting stages, and supports background reference curve comparison. Users can customize cupping curves and cupping charts. In terms of output, the software supports generating HTML reports, exporting CSV files, and can also separately import CSV data from Omega HH506 and K202. It also has PID duty cycle control, curve pre-design, wheel graphic editor, mathematical plotting, multilingual localization (including German, French, Spanish, Swedish, and Italian translations), multi-core CPU performance enhancement support, template/background reproduction replay assistance, and alarm functions with programmable output. The software can also automatically detect CHARGE/DROP events.
Software screenshots
Version history
0.5.6 2012-11-13
- Fixed the CENTER 301 error and added Voltcraft K201 support — bug fix
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