Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol

AnitaAmandaHuginskis@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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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  • 5too@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?

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    • Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s better to just purchase a temperature probe with wifi. Those are handy as hell.

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    • Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • mndckr@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • qarbone@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They shoot at it when the food is subpar.

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    • chuymatt@startrek.website ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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      • mndckr@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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” :)

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      • blujan@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Have you tried ceramic? I don’t know if it makes sense but just a doubt

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      • iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Nah, just give it the rattle can and paint it every now and then. “Once dor dust, twice for rust.”

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• ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m an IT guy, if my printer made a noise I don’t recognise I’d shoot it.

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• tankfox@midwest.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Gets up to 700 degs

    That’s a furnace. Aluminium melts at 700 degrees. Gold at 1000.

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    • saigot@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think they are using facism units

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  • Cataphract@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    which minecraft mod is that?

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• setnof@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• seejur@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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)

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