New Web based scale app for Motif Perfect Scale
25I wrote a web based scale app for the $9 Bluetooth Motif Perfect Scale that comes up here every so often. The apps that the vendor recommends are trash, but this one ‘just works’ and doesn’t require an app to be installed. The ONLY limitation is that Chrome is the only browser with Bluetooth support at the moment. Check it out here. It’s also open source, so feel free to hack away. Next, I’ll add auto connect and battery usage to it.
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You win an Internets!
I don’t know if I trust you with my coffee.
Thank you!
Now this is web scale!
Great idea, but does it scale?
@mehcuda67 I appreciate you.
@mehcuda67 of course, it’s web scale
@regreddit Thanks for the web app, it’s very useful.
In making it, did you happen to learn approximately what the sampling rate for these scales is?
@a The scale ‘streams’ to connected bluetooth hosts, so it’s pretty fast. I’d say about 100Hz, but I have not measured it.
@regreddit that’s great to know, thanks.
I had the idea of trying to make a crappy wireless electric drum set using a few of these. I feel like 100z would be enough to determine the volume for the drums quickly, but probably the bottleneck would be in the overall Bluetooth lag rather than the sampling rate. I might try it but it probably won’t work well.
@a Hey that’s a neat idea. You’ll need a good sized dead band, as the scale constantly drifts when there’s no load on it
@regreddit I’ll keep that in mind!
Nice work! Just got my scale in today, and glad to find this as an easy alternative to the android apps available.
Does anyone else get a blank white page? https://nikmartin.js.org/motif-web-scale/
@broncopde page loads fine for me.
@carl669 Thanks! I was trying it with Google Chrome on iOS (which I found out doesn’t support Web Bluetooth). Luckily, there is a free app, Bluefy, that is for this exact purpose. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bluefy-web-ble-browser/id1492822055
This is simply fantastic! Been trying to figure out a different approach but this is better. Thank you!