Just installed a soup profile on my GaggiMate earlier this week. I also picked up a bag of light roasted Ethiopian beans from my local roaster yesterday. This inspired me to finally try it out with a nice light roast.

Out of curiosity, what made you choose the Gagguino over the Gaggimate?

yeah that sounds like a totally mentally stable guy

Way better than mine looked when I first started learning. And better than the art on a latte I got at an actual expensive coffee shop today. Nicely done!

Qwen3.8 is out now and blows Qwen3.6 out of the water in pretty much every metric

I have a setup very similar to this. Although I’m fully on the Plasma Bigscreen bandwagon. But then again, I don’t have many custom services such as NFC login/custom background image logic like you do, and I doubt Plasma Bigscreen would play nice with that stuff. A couple of things I learned through my many attempts of setup:

• HDMI CEC doesn’t work on pretty much all x86 devices except for like some particular mini PCs, the Framework desktop, and the Steam Deck dock. Most ARM devices do though which is how I got around this by just using an Orange Pi 5. Another option is tunneling over DisplayPort if your device has a DisplayPort and you have a supported DP-HDMI adapter. Then finally, there’s also the PulseEight USB adapter if nothing else works.
• I’ve been using Waydroid for any application that doesn’t support Linux natively like YouTube or most streaming services (although I only use YouTube and Jellyfin for all of my content). You can use Waydroid Android TV which launches a near-native Android TV translation layer running Lineage OS which is de-googled and privacy protecting by default. You can launch the normal Android interface which has the entire Android TV UI, or you can enable multi window mode and just launch specific Android apps directly from whatever Linux launcher you use and they launch and work like normal Linux apps with TV controls. Very useful since Android has a much larger TV app ecosystem.

I wish I had some, but I honestly just follow all the standard guides I see online. Start with the wand just below the surface and inject air (paper tearing sound) for around 6 seconds, then bury the wand a bit deeper and find the right angle for a vortex, then keep it spinning until the pitcher is too hot to touch. Tap the pitcher a few times and swirl it around for a bit to pop the large surface bubbles and pour.

I follow this exact set of steps every time, and I still don’t get consistent results. I think the problem lies with the vortex step, I can never consistently find the right angle that produces a strong enough vortex.

I’ve been using the Flatpak version of Ungoogled Chromium for a while now (for websites that don’t work natively with Librewolf). Is this really that new?

I’ll probably continue working on my Swift GTK/libadwaita wrapper and the demo project that makes use of the library. Doing it this way has been very pleasant, it allows me to put it through real world tests and helps me identify stopgaps in the toolkit I wouldn’t otherwise notice through unit tests alone.

Been looking for something like this for RetroDECK! Thanks!

No worries! Wouldn’t be in the coffee community if I didn’t love talking about coffee.

It’s great! You get a much more consistent temperature with the PID tuning, you can emulate other shot styles like old school lever espresso machines with the profile builder. You can connect a bluetooth scale to it and it’ll stop the shot automatically when it reaches the target weight. It even increases the steaming power by automatically pumping a little bit of extra water into the boiler while steaming.

It really does turn this budget machine into something that rivals machines that cost several grand. That being said, it’s definitely not for everyone. It requires taking the machine apart, voiding your warranty, and a lot of rewiring, so might wanna wait until the warranty expires. But GaggiMate does a really good job of making the kit they sell easy to work with and the instructions easy to follow.

So if you love the coffee you already make it’s probably not worth it, but if not, and you have $200 and a weekend to spare, it’s totally worth it.

I only did it because I had one of the GCP models with a boiler with the nonstick coating that would flake off, and I was already basically taking the whole thing apart while installing GaggiMate. I wouldn’t really recommend it otherwise, too expensive.

Thanks! I love my GCP, and have quite a few mods, but I think I’d still be happy even if it was stock.

That being said, aside from the aesthetic wood steam knob and wood handled bottomless portafilter, I also upgraded to the brass boiler, and an articulated cool touch steam wand. The biggest difference of course is the GaggiMate.

Honestly though I’d say if you’re happy with the shots you pull, I wouldn’t change a thing. I had my GCP bone stock for years and loved it just as much as I do now. I just love to tinker with things. Enjoy it and upgrade bit by bit if you feel like you want a little bit more out of a certain aspect of the experience.

The wood steam knob and a bottomless portafilter will probably be the best bang for your buck if you want a good starting point.

It’s probably a perspective thing. I happen to have a super tiny scale. Here it is in my hand for scale.

This is the Cortado size in the smoke gray color, the espresso cup would probably be a bit smaller.

Should also mention that I have a cat, and this cup has been knocked off the counter and all it did was put a dent in my wood floors lol

I’m a huge fan of Fellow’s Pirch espresso cups. They’re not double-walled, but they’re thick af, super solid and feel so nice to hold because of how weighty they are. They also come in some pretty colors. I’ll follow up with a picture of mine when I make my morning espresso here in a few minutes

They both have their pros and cons, with the main takeaway being that Gaggiuino tends to be a bit more configurable and stable but lacks visual polish and has less frequent updates. Gaggimate is the relative newcomer, but has since caught up to Gaggiuino in terms of features for the most part. But the biggest thing for me is that Gaggiuino is no longer open source, while Gaggimate is still fully committed to being open source which I find super important for a DIY project such as this.

It used to be behind Gagguino in terms of features, but it’s caught up incredibly quickly, now I believe the only thing Gaggimate doesn’t have is the option for an integrated scale built into the drip tray.

The biggest thing for me was that Gagguino recently stopped being open source, while Gaggimate is still committed to being fully open source. And in my opinion, Gaggimate has more polish and looks better visually. But definitely do your own research and compare them yourself if you’re curious.

Hell yeah, that’s an amazing machine! If you like tinkering and wanna make your Gaggia even better, check out GaggiMate if you haven’t already. It allows you to do pretty much everything something like a Decent DE1 ($2500+) can do such as pressure profiling, flow control, PID tuning, smart scale connection, etc. for a fraction of the cost.

It’s not too hard to install if you’re a little bit crafty either, took me about a day to install mine. I can’t recommend it enough.

Given the first few commits referring to scaffolding phases and the frequent use of em dashes, I’m suspicious this was built with AI assistance. Nothing wrong with that, but a disclaimer of some sort somewhere would go a long way.