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Huzzah! I will be doing more testing with this setup and I’ll update this post if I come across anything new.

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However, now I can have my beer recipes with me anywhere in the house with full editing functionality. There are some limitations with this setup. You must be online when wanting to use BeerSmith. If you need to use Beersmith while offline, you will need to plan ahead and recreate your local folder. You cannot use both installations of Beersmith at the same time (nor should you). MKLINK /D BeerSmith2 C:\users\\dropbox\beersmith2

The command to create a symbolic link is: “MKLINK /D linkname target”. So in this case you would type:.

Change directory to where your Beersmith folder was.

If you do not have administrator rights on your machine you will need to right-click on “cmd” and select “Run as Administrator.” You cannot create the link unless you have administrator priveleges.

Open a command prompt. Search for “cmd” and hit enter to open the prompt.

Create a symbolic link to the Dropbox folder that will take the place of the Beersmith folder you just deleted.

Delete the existing Beersmith folder. (Don’t worry. It’s ok.

The path should now be: C:\users\\dropbox\beersmith2

Move a copy of your Beersmith folder into your dropbox folder.

This folder should be located here: C:\users\\documents\beersmith2 This is your safety net in case something ever goes wrong.

Create a local copy of your Beersmith folder as a backup.

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Create a Dropbox account and install Dropbox. If you are using Windows 8 you need to install Dropbox on the desktop. The app will not work for this purpose. This will give you a folder on your hard drive that syncs with the cloud.

The instructions below assume default installations. If you have changed the location of any of the desired folders then update your pathnames accordingly. Follow these instructions for both computers to setup syncing for your Beersmith files. In addition, you cannot store equipment profiles, inventory, etc. So any adjustments made to your equipment will not be carried across to the other computer.Įnter Dropbox. Surely there has to be a way to sync my files in the cloud. After spending some time surfing the web I came across a very simple solution thanks to user calumscott on the Home Brew Forum. I had my Beersmith files share between my machines in less than 15 minutes. I have more than 15 recipes so I would have to decide what to put up there and constantly juggle what I have in the cloud. I am too lazy for this.

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However, this makes me stuck with how to manage my BeerSmith 2 software that is now installed on two computers.īeersmith does offer cloud support, but you are limited to 15 recipes before starting on a monthly plan. Once completed, click the "View it" link.I recently picked up a small Windows tablet/netbook that will let me work on the brewing stuff and the website without being tied to the desktop. Now I can be more present with the family and more easily pick up and work when I have some spare time. The name of your application doesn't matter - now click the Deploy button. In this box, fill in the public URL of your recipe file from the above step. Once logged in, Heroku will ask you to fill in a text box in the ENV section.

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Click the Deploy button at the top of this repository. BeerSmith 3.0.8 provides you various tools to design a beer recipe as a. Make sure you've got the public URL of your BeerSmith recipe file (from Dropbox or elsewhere) by following the above step - we'll need it. Usage - Easy Mode: Including BeerSmith Taplist on your web site I then copied a public share URL of my file in DropBox. By default this was ~/Documents/Beersmith2, but I moved it to ~/Dropbox/BeerSmith using the File -> Change Documents Directory function in BeerSmith.

Finding your BeerSmith Recipe definition fileīeerSmith 2 stores it's recipes in a user specified location. This is case sensitive - so never fill one as "On Tap", and another as "on tap". You can override the field used if you like, but I find the default "Assistant brewer" works well for me - just remember to always fill the field the same way. I never use the "Assistant brewer" field however, so I've cannibalised it for my needs, assigning meaning to certain strings in this field as I put beer into a fermentor & brew ("On Deck"), and rotate finished beer in kegs into the tap fridge ("On Tap"). This is a bit of a hack - BeerSmith was never intended to indicate what's on tap and what's not. Node.js script to list what's on tap, along with info about that beer, from a specified field entry in the BeerSmith 2 Recipe definition.