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Needs a PerfectDraft Pro or Pro Black.
Already run Home Assistant with the PerfectDraft integration? The sign reads your sensors. No subscription, no sign-in.
For PerfectDraft owners Always know
Always know
what’s on tap.
Meet seemy.beer, a smart sign for your PerfectDraft. It shows the beer on tap, its brand and story, how much is left, how cold it is, and how fresh. Glanceable across the room.
- ✓ Free with Home Assistant
- ✓ Standalone from £5/mo, no Home Assistant needed
- ✓ 14 days free when you subscribe
LAGER AMERICAN LAGER
Budweiser
3.2 L left · ~5.6 pints
Serving 3°C Tapped 12d ago
The story · Budweiser
Budweiser
The brewery
Created by Adolphus Busch in St. Louis in 1876, Budweiser is brewed with beechwood aging and marketed as the 'King of Beers'.
This beer
A pale 4.5% American lager, beechwood-aged for a clean, crisp and subtly sweet everyday taste.
From ST. LOUIS Brewed in MAGOR
LAGER EURO PALE
Stella Artois
4.1 L left · ~7.2 pints
Serving 2°C Tapped 5d ago
The story · Stella Artois
Stella Artois
The brewery
Rooted in Leuven's Den Hoorn brewery of 1366, the Stella name first appeared in 1926 as a festive Christmas lager. It grew into a global brand now owned by AB InBev.
This beer
The flagship Belgian pilsner-style lager, crisp and lightly bitter with a clean, dry, refreshing finish.
From LEUVEN Brewed in MAGOR
LAGER HELLES
Löwenbräu
Original
2.4 L left · ~4.2 pints
Serving 4°C Tapped 21d ago
The story · Löwenbräu
Löwenbräu
The brewery
One of Munich's great breweries, Lowenbrau carries the lion emblem and a traditional 1383 founding date - a six-time Oktoberfest brewery, now part of AB InBev. The 1923 Beer Hall Putsch - Hitler's failed Nazi coup - began at Munich's Burgerbraukeller, a hall then owned by Lowenbrau.
This beer · Original
Munich's classic Helles lager: a bright golden Bavarian brew with soft bready malt, a delicate hop balance and a clean, easy-drinking finish.
From MUNICH
LAGER GERMAN PILSNER
Beck's
5.0 L left · ~8.8 pints
Serving 3°C Tapped 3d ago
The story · Beck's
Beck's
The brewery
Brewed in Bremen since 1873, Beck's follows the German Purity Law and became Germany's top export beer, shipped to over 100 countries.
This beer
A crisp 4.9% German pilsner with a golden colour, floral hop aroma and clean, dry bitter finish.
From BREMEN
BLONDE ABBEY BLONDE
Leffe
Blonde
1.8 L left · ~3.2 pints
Serving 3°C Tapped 9d ago
The story · Leffe
Leffe
The brewery
Brewing traces to 1240 at the Abbaye de Leffe near Dinant, Belgium. After floods and the French Revolution the abbey beer was revived in 1952 and is now brewed by AB InBev.
This beer · Blonde
The flagship abbey blonde, golden and full-bodied with warm notes of vanilla, clove and bready malt in a smooth, gently bitter finish.
From DINANT Brewed in MAGOR
Beer names and logos are trade marks of their respective owners and are shown to identify the beers this sign can display. seemy.beer is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any brewery.
What it does
A tap sign that actually tells you something.
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Live keg, at a glance
Standalone or Home AssistantVolume remaining, serving temperature and freshness, all updated automatically. No phone required.
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Knows what’s tapped
Standalone or Home AssistantAuto-detects the current keg and matches it to a catalogue of ~63 brands, each with real colours and artwork. In Manual mode you pick it yourself from the same catalogue.
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The story in the glass
A rotating story screen: the brewery, where it’s really brewed, ABV, origin and how long it’s been on tap.
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Free with Home Assistant
Already run the PerfectDraft integration? The sign reads your sensors. No subscription, no sign-in.
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Works with every PerfectDraft
No Pro? Manual mode fits the PerfectDraft and PerfectDraft Black, which have no app of their own. Pick your keg by hand.
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Never goes dark
The sign updates itself, for free, and you never have to plug it into anything. And if PerfectDraft ever change how their app talks to the machine, Manual mode carries on regardless.
Manual mode shows your keg, its story and the date you tapped it. It cannot read live volume, temperature or freshness, because those come from the machine itself and only a PerfectDraft Pro reports them. Compare the three modes.
Pick your setup
Pick the mode that fits your setup.
Every mode shows the same sign. They differ only in how it learns what’s on tap. No contracts, cancel any time, 14-day free trial on the paid modes.
Which machine have you got?
Standalone
PerfectDraft Pro, no Home Assistant
£5 /mo
Needs a PerfectDraft Pro or Pro Black.
The sign talks to PerfectDraft directly for live keg, volume, temperature and freshness, updated automatically. No Home Assistant required. Includes Manual mode too.
Manual
PerfectDraft or PerfectDraft Black
£3 /mo
Pick your current keg by hand from the catalogue. Fits the PerfectDraft and PerfectDraft Black, which have no app of their own, and doubles as a fallback on a Pro if the PerfectDraft connection ever changes.
Prices are in pounds and exclude VAT. In the UK there is no VAT to add. Elsewhere, your country’s VAT is added at checkout and shown before you pay.
Standalone includes everything Manual does, so paying £5 still lets you hand-pick a keg whenever you want, with no plan change and nothing to switch.
| Feature | Home Assistant Free | Standalone £5/mo | Manual £3/mo |
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| Your machine Only the Pro machines have the app and connection these modes read, so Home Assistant and Standalone both need a PerfectDraft Pro or Pro Black. On a PerfectDraft or PerfectDraft Black, Manual is the mode that fits. | Pro / Pro Black | Pro / Pro Black | Any model |
| Live volume, temperature & freshness | Via HA | ✓ | – |
| Automatic current-keg detection | Via HA | ✓ | – |
| Beer story screen & days-on-tap | ✓ | ✓ | You set the date |
| Needs Home Assistant Standalone and Manual work entirely on their own. | ✓ | – | – |
| Manual keg picker included | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| 14-day free trial | n/a | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cancel anytime | n/a | ✓ | ✓ |
| Brand catalogue, artwork & automatic updates | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Getting one
Two ways to get the hardware.
The sign itself is a one-off purchase, separate from any subscription. Buy the screen and a stand and flash it yourself, or wait for the ready-made one.
Build your own
Just the parts No subscription included
Easier than it sounds. Buy the screen and a stand, plug it into your computer, and press a few buttons in your browser to load our software onto it. That is what flashing means, and it only happens once. After that the sign updates itself and you will not need the cable again. A case is optional, and you can add one later.
- Buy the screen and a stand yourself
- Flash it from your browser, nothing to install
- Ten minutes, once, and the guide walks you through it
- A case is optional, print or buy one whenever
Pre-built
Price to be confirmed Announced here when it is set
We are working with a hardware provider on a version that arrives ready to go: already flashed, in a case, on a stand. Plug it in, join its hotspot, and you are at the setup wizard.
- Screen supplied pre-flashed
- Case included
- Stand included
- Nothing to print, nothing to flash
Same software, same modes, same price whichever route you take.
Frequently asked
Do I need Home Assistant?
No. Standalone mode exists for exactly this, with the sign talking to PerfectDraft directly. But if you already run Home Assistant with the PerfectDraft integration, the software is free, with no subscription on top of the sign itself.
Which machines work?
All of them, but not in the same mode. A PerfectDraft Pro or Pro Black works with Standalone or Home Assistant, because those read the machine’s own connection. A PerfectDraft or PerfectDraft Black has no app of its own for them to read, so Manual mode is the one that fits: you pick the keg by hand and the sign does the rest.
How does the subscription reach my sign?
You subscribe from the sign itself, while you are setting it up. Pick a paid mode and the sign opens checkout in a new tab, already knowing which sign it is and which plan you chose. Come back afterwards and it spots the subscription on its own. If one ever lapses, the sign shows a QR code that does the same job. Because the sign identifies itself you can pay with any email address. That is also why you cannot subscribe from this website: there would be no sign for the subscription to attach to.
I have two signs. Do I pay twice?
Each sign is its own subscription, because billing is per device. Two signs on one machine means two subscriptions.
What’s the free trial?
Every paid mode starts with a 14-day free trial, beginning when you subscribe. You enter card details at checkout so the sign keeps working when the trial ends, but nothing is taken until then, and cancelling before the 14th day costs you nothing. One trial per sign.
My sign says there’s less in the keg than I know there is.
The sign can only show what PerfectDraft reports, and you will see the same figure in the official app. It is worth trying a combination of restarting the machine, retapping the keg, or simply pouring a few drinks, after which it usually calibrates itself.
My sign says the keg is empty, but I can still pour from it.
The sign shows what PerfectDraft reports, and the official app will be telling you the same thing. In practice, once it reads empty you can often get another pint or two out of the keg before it really is. That is a limitation of the PerfectDraft itself, so there is nothing we can fix at our end.
Can I cancel?
Yes. Plans are monthly and you can cancel any time from the billing portal. See the Terms for the full cancellation and refund policy.
What if PerfectDraft change how their app works?
Your sign won’t go dark. Standalone owners can switch to Manual mode and keep using the sign while (or whether) a fix lands. That is the reason Manual exists as a fallback.