Hi, I have 14 taps out of a coffin box from a homemade walk-in cooler. My kids are getting older, and so I’m looking for ways to shut off the taps easily.
For a bit of context, I use Bev Seal Ultra 235 in 3/8” OD with push to connect fittings, and to balance the lines I also have Perlick 650SS faucets, which have the flow control on them.
What I was hoping for, was a way to control stainless motorized ball valves. I have seen the 1/4” stainless ball valves for around ~$30 a piece, normally closed, running off low voltage DC.
I was wondering if kegbot were equipped for something along these lines? What I envision is the ball valves on relays, and when I login to kegbot, I can turn on one beer at a time, or all of them, and it would send the signal and actuate the ball valve, and then I could hit another button to have the software de-energize the ball valves since they auto close.
I likely would not worry about the flow meter aspect, even though I know that is the function that most use (I might consider it in the future if I could get the shutoffs to work well first).
I just installed a ball valve this past week with my kegbot. I have the stainless US Solid 1/4” normally closed from Amazon. I used Claude.ai to write a python script that runs via crontab on a raspberry pi 5. It opens at 4pm and closes at 9pm. It can also query kegbot settings via the API key. I would think that Claude could modify kegbot to do what you want. It didn’t need a lot of training.
I think we could add support for this: Right now valve control is somewhat tightly coupled with authentication. It sounds like what you’re asking for is even simpler - just let someone toggle the valve open or closed from an admin page (or, I suppose, on a schedule).
I’ll keep this in mind with the upcoming rewrites, shouldn’t be difficult!
Yes, very simple. I would definitely want it behind a login (something to deter the kids) or through an app that is on a locked device. If you add it into your code, please update this thread!