Changelog
3.4.3 Release Notes
Features and Improvements
Heater/Water Firmware:
The heating controls have been rewritten to be more robust, lean, and precise. Temperature stability and gain have both been improved. This allows for smoother pours and a greater range of accessible temperatures before sputtering occurs. We’ve also enhanced some of the safety features within that firmware to avoid mechanical damage. An additional benefit we’ve noticed in optimizing this is that the screens are a bit snappier than the 3.3 versions.
Screensaver and Dimming:
To reduce burn-in on the screens, we’ve adjusted how it idles. After 15 minutes of inactivity, the screens will now dim, and after 60 minutes, they’ll shut off. Turning a knob will wake it back up.
Keyboard:
We’ve changed our text input for things like naming recipes to be a two-line A-Z keyboard. Turning all the way left or right will advance through screens of capital letters, lowercase, numbers, symbols, and Save/Cancel. We expect to continue working on this, but feel this already represents a marked improvement over the previous input.
Grind Number:
We’ve added a numeric option for the grinder notes, When selecting a grind size, you can scroll over to “Use Number” and save a number between 0-99. If you’d prefer to use words, you can scroll past zero to select that option.
Reset MFG Mode:
We’re adding a backdoor to allow technicians to use some advanced settings to solve any issues that may pop up.
Brewing:
We pulled some of the information for pours into the screens you see while brewing a cup of coffee. Now the machine will display how much water it’s pouring and how long it’s pausing between pours. If you’ve filled out the “Dose” field in a recipe, the “Add Coffee” prompt will remind your barista how much to add.
Recipe Building:
Pours have been summarized to include shorthand for the volume and pause time.
Save as New will now Version your new recipe if it has the same name, similar to when you download multiple copies. You’ll now see something like “Steady V60 [1]”.
Patterns:
The patterns have gotten reworked to be tighter in moving through the points, while still maintaining similar coverage and turbulence for larger pours.
Security:
Recipe management can be locked behind a 4-digit pin to prevent unwanted hands from changing the recipe you perfected. Reach out to our support team if you forget your pin.
New Recipes:
We added two new default recipes for cards fresh out of the box, Steady Spot and Steady Phin. Like all of the default recipes, they’re adjustable to whatever you may need.
“Steady Spot” is a simple 150g pour of hot water. We made the recipe to provide a similar experience to the push-to-pour functionality of PS1, hot water towers, and some commercial batch brewers. We hope it helps your team prepare Americanos, rinse mugs, brew teas, and anything else you might need hot water for.
“Steady Phin” is our first pass at a recipe for a phin dripper. We’ve enjoyed the richness and boldness it’s given the cups we’ve brewed.
OTA Updates:
Our team has noticed occasional failures during OTA deployments that seem to be network-related. If you’re connecting via Wi-Fi, we recommend using an employees-only network for the time being.
We thank you again for being our earliest PS2 adopters! If you have any feedback, or if any issues arise, please do not hesitate to reach out to support@poursteady.com and we’ll be happy to help.