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Artisan helps coffee roasters record, analyze, and control roast profiles. With the help of a thermocouple data logger, or a proportional–integral–derivative controller (PID controller), this software offers roasting metrics to help make decisions that influence the final coffee flavor. Artisan is free for personal and commercial use, but asks for a donation . HOME The home of its development is on GitHub were all source and binary files are available as well as an issue tracker. MAILING LIST ARTISAN BLOG https://artisan-roasterscope.blogspot.de

FEATURES Runs on 64bit Windows 8, Mac OS X 10.13, Redhat/Debian Linux (incl. Raspberry Pi) and supports a large number of devices and roasting machines. See for supported Supported Devices and for supported machines. Artisan offers - unlimited number of curves - rate-of-rise (RoR), area-under-the-curve (AUC), development-time-ratio (DTR) calculations - projection lines and head-up-display (HUD) - roast profile evaluation and statistics - roast-, production- and ranking reports - automated reproduction of roasts via alarm programs, replay of events or PID control - batch counter - profile designer, cupping editor, spider- and wheel graph - user defined buttons and sliders with programable actions - many import and export formats INSTALLATION See

LICENCE Artisan is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Artisan is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Copies of the GNU General Public License has been included with this distribution in the file `LICENSE.txt`. An online version is available at .

LIBRARIES Artisan uses the following libraries in unmodified forms: - Python 3.x released under the PSF licence http://www.python.org/psf/ http://www.python.org/ - QT 5.x under the Qt GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 (LGPL) http://qt-project.org/products/licensing - Numpy and Scipy, Copyright (c) 2005, NumPy Developers; All Rights Reserved http://www.scipy.org/ - PyQt 5.x and SIP 4.x under the Qt GNU GPL v. 3.0 licence; Copyright (c) 2010 Riverbank Computing Limited http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/ - matplotlib, Copyright (c) 2002-2015 John D. Hunter; All Rights Reserved. Distributed under a licence based on PSF. http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net - py2app under the PSF open source licence; Copyright (c) 2004-2006 Bob Ippolito Copyright (c) 2010-2012 Ronald Oussoren . http://packages.python.org/py2app/ - pyinstaller under the GPL license http://www.pyinstaller.org - pymodbus under the BSD License by Galen Collins https://github.com/bashwork/pymodbus - python-snap7 under MIT license https://github.com/gijzelaerr/python-snap7 - arabic_reshaper.py under GPL by Abd Allah Diab (Mpcabd)

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