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.

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	Green Inventory (Coffee Lines, Lots)

Imports move one roast at a time today, so start with the references you actually roast against. Bulk import is on our roadmap.

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:

Create or open a Plan for the coffee.
On the Plan detail page, click Import reference and choose Import from Artisan.
Select the roast file. The imported Curve becomes the Plan’s Reference Curve, and the roast joins your history as a Batch.

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.

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 Greens and open the import option.
Select your spreadsheet.
Match your columns to Rostoc fields — Rostoc suggests a mapping automatically.

See Green Inventory for how Coffee Lines, Lots, and Warehouses work.

Not carried over yet

Bulk roast import — one roast at a time today.
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.