I’ve added my bean supply (weights) to RW in advance. Then, in RT, during the time it takes to preheat, I enter in the roast name, select the proper bean and green weight, temp and humidity and save. Then after the roast, using RT, I then add the post-roast weight. That is my process, but it sometimes reduces the bean supply and sometimes it doesn’t. Other times it doesn’t deduct the correct amount that was specified. I always roast the same amount (453.6gm), so I know what to expect when I look at the result. Even though I do this consistently with each roast. I have largely let this problem go because it isn’t my first post, nor other’s first post about this issue and so I just have to manage it outside of the RT/RW system altogether. Honestly, and I don’t mean to be negative, but this should be solid, as it’s not what would appear complicated, outside of having the two places to manage the process (RT and RW) in the first place.
Thanks for continuing to pursue this, @derrxb
My process is identical to @bobstrengera5kj as described above, with rare occasions when I don’t have time during the back-to-back preheat to enter the new roast info, and then I enter it all post-roast. I just looked at my last 2 roasts, both done on May 19. One updated correctly and the other did not (I corrected the one that was not automatically updated). I’ll try to monitor this more closely and report.
Interesting… I had to chime in. I did 4 back-to-back roasts on Saturday May 22 and entered the roast info after I was all done. The data looks to be ok on RW for me - although I didn’t exactly check if the “inventory” got deducted correctly.
Mine was mainly newbie error, I picked up last night that there are multiple identical beans in the base inventory and on a couple of roasts I had selected the identical bean which was not in “MY Beans” list. This accounted for all but 2 errors, not sure what happened with those.
Next chance you get, please check to see if the RW inventories got “deducted” correctly. That’s my only real problem.
I just checked… it looks like RW inventories for the roasts I did this past weekend were deducted correctly for me.
I’ll have to say one thing, I wish we can manage inventory in lbs and roast in kg - because SM sends me beans in lbs! 
I’m always having to pull out my conversion calculator…
I just checked. The two roast I did today were not deducted from inventory in RW, although the roasts themselves show up correctly. I manually adjusted them.
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Enter beans into RW including initial weight…whether 1KG or otherwise
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Initiate the roast in RT
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edit the roast profile by entering the green bean weight…for example 454gm. I may edit this weight at the beginning of the roast when the temperature is just coming up, or I may enter the green bean weight after the roast has completed. Doesn’t seem to matter, and i cannot imagine why it would ( but I guess it could).
4)The green bean weight appears in RW, but the green bean weight has not been subtracted from the initial weight.
Question:
Must I be logged in to RW WHILE I am roasting?
And does RW need to be open WHILE I am roasting?
Can’t answer you directly but what I do is keep myself logged into both R.W & RT3 while I’m roasting or editing roast data or edit/creating Recipes. I just never log out of either.
Bruce
Still continues to happen to me as well. Every once in a while the stock declines as it should from a roast of that bean, but 90% of the time, it isn’t working. Although it is adding up the roasted weight and roast count for each bean. This is using the latest from Matthew. Again, as Bruce suggests, I am always logged into RW when using RT.
Bob and lanai, I’d say my process and experience matches yours. I just can’t figure it out.
Billy
Yeah. It really needs serious attention to just get it done. I know it’s been looked at and believed fixed prior, but obviously there’s something more going on here
I roasted two batches of Columbian today. I was logged in to RW at the time and it was running in the background. Again, RW shows that I conducted the roasts but RW failed to deduct the grams of green beans used in the roast from my bean inventory. But, there is another interesting thing I noticed and I am including pictures…at least I hope I am.
Here is a pic of RW. It is clear to see that I am logged in:
This is a screen shot from the My Beans area with my Columbian bean selected and on the screen:
The upper right corner shows the three roasts that I’ve made with this bean. Two from today…one from a few months ago. Notice that the user is shown as “@unknown Owner”. Maybe I’m missing something here, but this seems unusual to me. Should it not indicate that I am the owner and show “@lanaiguycoffee”?
So the problem persists. Sure would like to get this resolved!
Could there, perhaps, be a relational database problem that is causing confusion with the inventory ownership and roast ownership??
I’ll speculate there are several suppliers in the database listed as Burman Coffee Traders. If you created your own version of that supplier I wonder if, when you created the inventory entry, you got the same vendor but a version created by someone else… ?? There’s really no way to be sure who created what, and more importantly it ought not make a difference, but maybe that’s the flaw. Again… just speculating.
Bruce
Hi everyone, sorry for the late reply here. I’ve been really busy recently with my Master’s thesis.
To answer a few of the questions you guys have:
- You do not need to be logged into roast world and Roastime in order for the inventory feature to “work”.
- I don’t think it’s an relational database issue problem (we actually use a nosql database provided by Firebase) since my tests on roast world for inventory updates works okay for me.
- I think this might be an issue specifically with RT and when roasts are created (I’m not 100% sure). I asked Matthew to double check if he can recreate the inventory issues. Unfortunately I don’t have a roaster with me and so I cannot create roasts.
- @lanaiguycoffee’s “Unknown Owner” issue seems to be a bug and I will get that fixed asap.
- @lanaiguycoffee for the roast and weight process, at what point do you assign the bean to the roast? Do you assign the green weight and the bean at the same time? Or do is one added before the other? (Order shouldn’t matter but it might help to recreate this issue)
I reported the same thing either in another post called,” 1st Roast after Seasoning (Brazil Santos)“ with the @unknown User. This accounts for a ton of unviewable roasts and I mentioned the liklikood of relational database issues. It’s definitely happening and it’s a big problem in terms of the result to the community
Hi, I wrote in that thread that I manage to deploy a quick fix for this.
derrick, I normally enter my green bean name and amount while the roasts is preheating…between preheat and charge. However, that is not a firmly established habit. I think I’ve probably done it differently from time to time.
I have the same workflow. I enter bean information and weight during preheating. It does not seem to deduct properly.