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I've managed to brew a few custom coffees, including a comically over-sized cappuccino when I forgot to specify milk (apparently not including the ingredient means... use a lot of it?).

The application specifically allows you to program defaults and save beverages, so this is fully supported once you have the recipes decoded.

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> (apparently not including the ingredient means... use a lot of it?)

to be fair, 0 = unlimited isn't an unheard of setting

yeah, that sounds like fun stuff to explore - playing with different values. How granular is it?

It's wildly precise - the coffee appears to be measured in "impulses", where a single impulse is somewhere < 5mL (if I were to guess - between 1-2). 250 impulses is juuuust enough to fill my coffee mug, but I think it varies a bit between modes.

The milk is measured in 1/10s of a second of flow, most likely because the volume depends on the foam setting.

I haven't gone as far as pushing the machine out of bounds intentionally, or even sending a parameter that's considered invalid yet.

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