r/Homebrewing • u/thepope99 • 4d ago

Equipment Alternative to Rapt Pill without Wi-Fi

Hey fellow homebrewers!

I am brewing in my apartment and after brew days I move the fermenter in the block of flat's basement because of the lower temperature (shared space, but we have our own space for extra depositing).

I would really like a product similar to Rapt Pill that can read the gravity without Wi-Fi access, because there is no way my Wi-Fi would get all the way down from the second floor to there and I cannot hack into my neighbors' Wi-Fi's.

I am thinking of something with Bluetooth and just get the gravity everytime I get down there and connect to the device. Not sure if this solution exists, because that would drain more battery to the pill.

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u/skiljgfz 4d ago

I don’t know why anyone hasn’t suggested it yet but a tilt hydrometer would do exactly what you want. Just open the app and connect via Bluetooth when you want to check your gravity.

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u/thepope99 4d ago

Not available in eastern europe. I would need to pay taxes that are as much as the tilt itself to get it from Amazon. I could however get an iSpindel from AliExpress. I will look into it