Sending a temp updates to your phone so you don’t have to be standing near it the whole time is a nice feature.
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AnitaAmandaHuginskis@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’m an IT nerd but they could not pay me to buy a grill that requires software updates. What a bunch of nonsense.
Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 4 days ago
My dad’s smoker is also able to set key frames so you can have it ramp up or down in temp at various points while cooking. And it can either be set to change temp at a time or when one of the probes reaches a certain temp.
5too@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Okay, I’m not a huge griller, but wouldn’t it be better just to build in a thermostat? Let it maintain its own temperature?
Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Commercial grills do exactly that. There’s just a thermostat built into the gas valve which uses a sensing bulb to modulate the gas flow based on actual temp and set temp. They don’t even need electricity let alone wifi.
Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
Sometimes you need cook on different temperatures at different periods. Sometimes you want to set it to cool down or heat up and instead of waiting near it, you could just set the target and let your phone ding when it’s time.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s better to just purchase a temperature probe with wifi. Those are handy as hell.
Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
I don’t think it’s better. It’s a different way to achieve that, but there is nothing inherently bad with whatever appliance that can do more than one thing. We shouldn’t expect the makers to be satisfied with the shitty job at programming damn things however.
I do want all my appliances to have wireless connection, I do want to talk to my kettle and set my oven temp on my phone.
howrar@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
I agree, but that should be a separate device. One that I can use in any grill or oven. There’s no reason for the grill itself to have that feature, especially if it can potentially brick the whole thing.
Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
Sometimes I just need a device that can do what I want it to do. Obviously I don’t want a device that can be bricked, but that’s just a shitty programming, not a condemnation of the whole concept. I have a whole host of devices that never brick themselves, and I intend to get more.
blarghly@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Iirc, you can also control the temp, presumably by interacting with the pellet hopper or fan. This will be specific enough for a BBQ that an integrated component makes sense.
howrar@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
I can see the appeal. I’ve just had bad experiences with devices that use digital controls, and you necessarily need digital controls if you’re going to automate these things. Everything breaks eventually, but simpler devices can usually be easily fixed whereas anything that relies on specialized circuit boards are outside of my wheelhouse. I would be much more comfortable with owning one of these if they released information on how these circuits worked so that replacements can be made even if the company disappears.
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I will never need a wifi connected kitchen appliance. A grill fits that category. My daily driver is a 2009 Toyota. Its great. No screens and easy to fix.
mndckr@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
Just out of curiosity… What are you doing to your grill that you need a new one every few years? Mine is prob. 10 years old and still no reason in sight to replace it.
qarbone@lemmy.world 4 days ago
They shoot at it when the food is subpar.
chuymatt@startrek.website 3 days ago
As someone in the PNW, there is not much you can do if you don’t bring the dang thing indoors that won’t leave the thing a pile of rust in 5 years.
I am trying with a specific form of stainless to see if it makes a difference.
mndckr@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
I see, yes i also have a stainless steel one, which is outdoors all year. Good luck, i suspect you might have just solved your “grill consumption” :)
iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Nah, just give it the rattle can and paint it every now and then. “Once dor dust, twice for rust.”
blujan@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Have you tried ceramic? I don’t know if it makes sense but just a doubt
ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
I’m an IT guy, if my printer made a noise I don’t recognise I’d shoot it.
tankfox@midwest.social 4 days ago
I have a Masterbuilt that has optional firmware updates sometimes, nothing mandatory and certainly nothing automatic. It’s a gravity fed charcoal grill that works like a computer controlled forced air rocket stove. Gets up to 700 degs from cold in 10 mins if I want or hold 225 for the rest of time as long as I keep feeding charcoal into the hopper and emptying the ash bin. The computer is adding actual value.
No soggy pellets, no weird feeding issues, the biggest problem I’ve had with it was the hatch sensors all going out over time, but once I jumped the circuit past them it worked fine again to this very day, going on six years now.
ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Gets up to 700 degs
That’s a furnace. Aluminium melts at 700 degrees. Gold at 1000.
saigot@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
I think they are using facism units
tankfox@midwest.social 2 days ago
Yes, stupid empire units. You had me excited for a minute but I should have known that was absurd.
Cataphract@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
which minecraft mod is that?
setnof@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Yesterday my WIFI air purifier crashed after changing the speed with the app and turned itself off and even caused the Ethernet switch to crash and hang.
seejur@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Actually the smoker is probably the only one thing I want software on and wifi (but yeah we could do without the updates unless there is some sort of bugs that turn it into a killing machine)
keyez@lemmy.world 3 days ago
As an IT nerd I got one of these and put it on a different subnet and it’s not able to reach out to anything external but my phone can hit it from a different subnet. Thing works great.
rumba@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Pay me? Fuck yes, I’ll rip that crap out and replace it with a couple of relays or maybe get fancy and arduino -> home assistant.
I’m betting that someone pay a LOT extra to get that garbage though.