Terra Kaffe Reviews

No matter what state the machine is actually in, TerraKaffe says the machine is asleep. Attempting to wake the machine, which is already awake, never succeeds. There’s no way to report bugs without opening a customer support case, so issues like this likely go unnoticed by the developers.

TerraKaffe locks you out of the controls if your phone is on a different network than the coffee maker for safety reasons - understandable. However, it checks this by looking at the SSID (wifi network name) you're connected to, so if you have different wifi network names for 2.4GHz and 5GHz, a different network name for IoT/guest mode/a wifi extender, TerraKaffe is useless.

There are better foolproof ways to detect if you're close to the machine. This is false safety because nothing stops me from being on the same wifi name in a different country but controlling the machine through VPN.

Reported this to Terra Kaffe and was ignored - be warned your smart coffee maker could be dumb because of this!

I downloaded TerraKaffe and when I try and use it to brew or save a new coffee profile it says something went wrong. Does TerraKaffe need an update? My coffee machine downloaded a firmware update when I got my WiFi programmed in it.

Why is it when I set the sleep mode to NEVER in TerraKaffe the TK-02 machine still goes into sleep mode??? I don't want it go into sleep mode which is why I set it to NEVER. What is wrong here?? You need to fix this.

Took a few tries to get it to connect to WiFi, once it finally did it turns out you have to be on the same SSID to control it from TerraKaffe , that is wildly dumb. Like many other security conscious customers you will run into, I keep all my IoT devices on their own SSID/subnet separate from my personal computing clients rendering TerraKaffe useless to me if I want to keep my security practices in place. If you really have to verify the phone/coffee maker are on the same network just use multicast similar to how chromecast/airplay work, this will allow vlan traversal for most instances.

When I want to start the machine using TerraKaffe , it always says “machine needs to complete the sleep cycle”. But that is clearly not the problem, because if I go up directly to the machine to start up, it begins the warm up workflow directly. Also there has been several times where my machine is disconnected from the WiFi for no particular reason, and I couldnt just re-enter the wifi password on TerraKaffe . I always had to unpair machine from app or delete TerraKaffe and re-download to fix this problem.

The functionality of TerraKaffe is crucial, but unfortunately, it falls short when used on a home WiFi network with multiple bands. Specifically, when my phone is connected to either the 5GHz or 6GHz band, it fails to detect the Tk-02 device connected to the 2.4GHz band. This significantly impairs its usability, as I typically connect my iPhone to higher frequency bands. However, when I do connect to the 2.4GHz band, TerraKaffe works as intended. I kindly request a fix for this issue. On a positive note, I thoroughly enjoyed the lattes I made today; they were simply delicious!

Leaving it at 3 stars currently as while when TerraKaffe connects to the machine, it works perfectly, many times I find I have to delete and add the machine almost daily or it does not connect correctly. Or, it will show the machine asleep when it is not.

The premise of adjusting anything you want in your coffee from an app is awesome. Though the execution is lacking. Too many bugs. Can’t save sometimes. Can’t edit the drinks. Please fix it.

Most of TerraKaffe does what it sets out to do. The stats are very broken. I just received my machine and have brewed 7 shots. According to my app it says I’ve used 2.6k ounces of water and 70 ounces of milk. I can assure you I have done neither.

App keeps signing me out every day or giving me errors. It could be great if this was not an issue.

Easy to use, love making coffee from bed.