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Artisan coffee roasting software, recording baking curve

Published: 2025-08-21 Author: World Gafei
Last Updated: 2025/08/21, Artisan is a software that helps coffee roasters record the temperature curve of the roasting process, as well as analyze and control the quality of coffee roasting through Artisan. By connecting the computer to a temperature recorder or PID controller (proportional-integral-differential controller), Artisan can automatically create baking curves to help bake.

Artisan is a software that helps coffee roasters record the temperature curve of the roasting process, as well as analyze and control the quality of coffee roasting through Artisan. By connecting the computer to a "temperature recorder" or "PID controller" (proportional-integral-differential controller), Artisan can automatically create baking curves to help bakers make decisions to change the final coffee flavor.

Functional features

-Artisan is open source software, completely free (distributed under GPLv3)

-running across platforms, (Mac, Windows, Linux)

-multinational languages (Chinese, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Italian, Arabic, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Greek, Turkish, Hungarian, etc.)

-supports a variety of temperature acquisition devices, as follows:

Fuji PXR/PXG 4 & 5 PID

Delta DTA PID (works for DTB too)

Modbus RTU (known to work with PIDs of Fuji, ENDA, Watlow, meters like myPCLab, as well as several variable frequency drives)

Omega HH309, HH506RA, HH802U, HH806AU, HHM28

General Tools DT309DL

CENTER 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 309

VOLTCRAFT K201, K202, K204, 300K, 302KJ

EXTECH 421509

Arduino TC4 with PID

TE VA18B

HHM28 multimeter

Amprobe TMD-56 (non-wireless)

Phidgets (1010, 1011, 1018, 1019, 1045, 1046, 1048, 1051, 1073)

Mastech MS6514

Yocto Thermocouple and PT100

External program

-can import and export multiple file formats (HTML, PDF, SVG, CSV, JSON, Omega HH506RA, K202, K204, RoastLogger)

-unlimited number of temperature and virtual curves incl. Rate-of-rise curves for ET and BT

-automatic curve smoothing

-two temperature units are supported, Fahrenheit and Celsius

-event logging, larger interface buttons, touch-enabled tablet

-Programmable buttons that support linking with Hottop Roaster Interface (after linking, Artisan can control the temperature and exhaust air volume of the electric baking machine through this hardware module)

-timing alarm clock, temperature alarm clock

-head-up-display predicting ET/BT development

-automatically mark the records of beans and pots

-you can set the baking curve template as the background for tracking reference baking.

-configurable profile evaluations and statistics

-link with electronic scales to automatically record the weight of coffee beans

-user can customize cup test chart

-prefabricated flavor parameter setting, coffee flavor star chart editing

Source: http://artisan.coffeebug.org/

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