Switch from Artisan to Rostoc

Coming from Artisan? Rostoc imports your machine setup and your roast curves, so the work you already put in carries over. This page covers what moves today and how — we’re expanding the import tools, and this guide grows with them.

The quickest way: let setup find Artisan

Install Rostoc on the computer where you roast with Artisan. When you first sign in, Rostoc finds Artisan there, shows what it found, and asks before bringing anything in:

Your business — your roastery name and units, filled in from Artisan.
Your machine — the machines in your Artisan setup, tried as the step opens, reading only. If Artisan is open, the step says Artisan is open. Close it and Rostoc connects. Quit Artisan and Rostoc reads your latest machine setup and tries the machine again.
Your plans — the roasts you used as a reference become Plans, each with its Reference Curve; your other Artisan roasts come in as past Batches.

Uncheck anything you don’t want, or choose Not now. See Bring in your Artisan or Cropster setup for each step.

Already set up, or installed Artisan since? Open Settings → Account and click Import from Artisan or Cropster. Rostoc reads the computer again and offers only what is not in your account yet.

On a computer without Artisan, or to bring in one file at a time, use the steps below.

What carries over today

From Artisan	Into Rostoc
Machine setup	A configured Machine
Roast curves	Reference Curves and roast history
Slider moves	Action curves on the imported Curve
Green coffee records	Coffee Lines and Lots, on Coffee lines

Setup brings in your Artisan roasts all at once. The steps below bring in one roast file at a time, so start with the references you actually roast against.

Imported roasts do not count toward the 30-roast free trial or your monthly limit, and they are marked imported wherever they are listed. Only the roasts you record in Rostoc count.

Speaking both languages

Artisan and Rostoc name a few things differently:

Artisan says	Rostoc says
Roast profile	Curve — the recorded temperature data of a Batch
Background profile	Reference Curve — the target you roast against
A completed roast log	Batch
Machine setup	Machine
Custom event sliders	Action curves — your own labels are kept

Roast events keep their names: Charge, Dry End, First Crack, Second Crack, Drop.

Step 1 — Bring your machine setup

Already have a working connection to your roaster? The .aset settings file carries that setup into Rostoc:

Save your machine setup as an .aset file.
In Rostoc, go to Machines in the sidebar, click Add Machine, and choose Import from Artisan.
Select the file. Rostoc reads the connection details and how each channel decodes on the wire — including signed and BCD register readings — and creates the Machine. If your setup drives a PID setpoint over Modbus, that slider becomes a real setpoint control in Roast Studio.
Run Test Connection before relying on it for production roasting.

The Add a Machine dialog with the Import from Artisan path

The Add Machine paths. Import from Artisan reads your machine setup file.

If anything in the file is ambiguous, Rostoc flags it for review instead of guessing. See Manage Machines for ongoing machine management.

Step 2 — Bring your best roasts

Each saved roast imports as a Curve you can roast against:

On Plans, open the … menu beside Create Plan and choose From Artisan. For a Plan you already have, open it, open the … menu at the right end of the page header, and choose Import from Artisan instead.
Select the roast file (.alog). The create form opens on the roast’s curve, with the new Plan’s name and weights filled in from it; choose the green coffee and save.
The imported Curve becomes the Plan’s Reference Curve, and the roast joins your history as a Batch, marked imported. It keeps the name, date and weights from the file. If the file marks no Drop, the roast ends at a Drop at its last reading.

The temperature curves aren’t the only thing that survives the trip. The slider moves you recorded — gas, air, drum, or anything you named yourself — import as action curves on the chart, at the values you actually set, under the labels you gave them. Notes you attached to those moves stay on the Curve too.

Only Artisan files import here. A roast exported from Rostoc is refused by name; to reuse one of your Rostoc roasts as a reference, star it in the Plan’s roast list.

An imported roast in the Batch view, with temperature curves above and the operator's own action curves below

An imported roast. The lower lane charts the slider moves from the original file, still carrying the names the roaster gave them.

One thing Rostoc deliberately repaints: curve colours. Imported curves get Rostoc’s own palette, so every chart in your library reads the same way — your choice of which curves to show is kept, your colour picks are not.

Step 3 — Bring your green coffee

If you track green coffee in a spreadsheet (or export one from another tool):

Go to Coffee lines and click Import File.
Select your spreadsheet.
Match your columns to Rostoc fields — Rostoc suggests a mapping automatically.

See Coffee lines for how Coffee Lines, Lots, and Warehouses work.

Not carried over yet

Alarms and custom buttons — Rostoc handles marking and Machine controls differently; set these up fresh. (Slider moves in your roast files, and a PID setpoint slider in your machine setup, do carry over — see the steps above.)
Curve colours — repainted with Rostoc’s palette by design, so imported and native roasts read the same on every chart.

Missing something you need for the move? Tell us — migration imports are actively improving, and real requests set the order.