Hi All
I apologise for posting in English. With a mixture of English, Swiss German, guessing, (and Google Translate) I can more or less read Svenska, but I would make a fool of myself If I attempted to write it

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I have spent the last few evenings trawling the furthest corners of the web looking for solutions to controlling a
Hendi “Manual” induction hob using an Arduino or a Raspberry PI. In the small wee hours of Saturday night I hit on this thread (don’t ask me how) that suggests a well developed solution (actually several). Mana from Heaven!
I want to thank all the forum members who contributed to the solution(s) proposed. This saves time, expensive mistakes, and possibly lives for others like me just embarking on this journey.
I have been home brewing for many years, starting in the UK as a student, and more recently in Switzerland where I now live. Currently I use 2 65 ltr Stainless Steel kettles to mash, lauter, boil and ferment in. The boil kettle sits on a 3.8 KW gas ring, and the mash tun on a 3.5 KW induction hob. All of this is completely manually operated - until now!
It is now mid summer, too warm to brew in Switzerland, but due to the terrible bad weather not good for paragliding, so I am using the time to upgrade my home-brewery! Part of the upgrade is automating the mash process.
My current induction hob is a Better China digital model. While it has a knob on front for power, it is a rotary encoder, not a pot. It may not be totally impossible to hack this unit, but I think it will probably be easier and cheaper to buy a manual
Hendi and hack it following the ideas in this thread, especially the scheme developed by AHM.
@AHM: I have the following questions about your solution:
1) If I have understood correctly, your control pcb circumvents the pot. i.e. the hob can no longer be controlled by the knob on the front?
2) The temperature probe is connected to the control pub (inside the hob), rather than to the Raspberry (outside the hob). Why?
3) What are the advantages of the OneWire DS1820 over any other temperature sensors / sensor types?
b.t.w, replies in Svenska, I hope i will be able to understand ….
