EasyBBQ Hack 3.0 + Redeem Codes

Just using for the first time. Using on a smoker. Nice tools and easy setup. Easy choices for selecting temperature for type of food. Very nice graph showing temperature rise over time which wouod give predictability to finishing. However, one glaring disappointment. Since the device is connected to the phone by bluetooth, its easy to get far enough away that the connection drops. Especially with something that will cook for hours. When that happens, all the history is lost and the graph starts over when you get back in range. A brand new graph starts and no history. Big disappointment. Writing this review hoping that this is something they fix on a future release. If not soon, buying something else.

Easy to use yes, handy presets, and easy to create custom ranges or max temp alarms.
HOWEVER- the graphing function is basically useless. Go out of range for a split second, graph history lost. Put app in background and lock your phone to open up a little later, graph history lost. I’m currently 6 hours into an 8lb shoulder which I would have liked to see the entire cook profile. I have a spare phone I have sitting near the grill so there’s no chance of losing connection or accidentally closing the app - yet still THREE separate times now I opened my phone to check on progress and for whatever reason the graph reset, losing the entire history to that point. I never write reviews but this has me annoyed enough to warn against what I though would be a very handy ‘feature’. Hopefully developer reads this and offers some sort of update to allow graph history to be saved for at least a 24hr period so you can actually follow the entire cook even if connection is lost briefly.

C'mon man. You've got a great probe tool. Easy to follow and use App. Modern day outside cooking. You're there. BUT, It's like you quit before finishing the app. Everybody has commented on it. 1) keep the temp rise history until the cook is complete. 2) fix the scaling so it's more visually useful. 3) add smart watch app so you can see the temp without carrying the phone. Dude, increase sales and brag to your friends how you've got the best in class probes and app in the world. Price is right to own the market. Get bought by Traeger. Go buy a ranch in Hawaii. But first, finish the dang app! And really, fixing just number 1 would make a lot of people happy. Fix all three, start planning retirement.

So this is a great app to work with my multi probe thermometer.

The only real problem I see here is the history of your smoker. As stated in a previous review, you lose all your history including your graft the second your Bluetooth is interrupted which happens quite frequently. Sometimes just sitting within range, because of this defect in the app program, the graft feature in this app is totally useless.

If it weren’t for that one issue I would give this five stars. However I was even considering giving it only three stars because of this simple issue that could easily be fixed with a firmware update

If the graph function could show data for the whole cook time I would give it a 5 star review. It seems like the app needs a background app refresh option or some other fix because every time my phone goes to sleep the app stops collecting data. When you wake your phone to look at the app the graph starts all over again from the new time that you just woke up your phone from. It doesn’t show previous history from earlier times in the same cook session.
I bought this Bluetooth thermometer because I cook a brisket for 18 hours and I want to see a gradual climb in temperature and also see when the temperature increase stalls. This app is not good for that only because of the graph history problem.

I use this app a lot. However as others have said, when you lose bluetooth you lose the chart. When doing long form cooking (such as smoking meats) this means I not only lose the meat temp (where the slope of the line is useful) but I also lose the smoke temp history, which is needed for tracking flavor. I hope the developer will fix this so that missing data is just missing from the chart, rather than resetting the whole chart.

I have a basic MasterBuilt smoker that I use probably every other week and use EasyBBQ to monitor my time and temp. As Scrabble2012 pointed out - when you get out of range, you lose the cooking history. That's one thing that would be great to fix. Plus being able to shift the temp at various cooking times, but I can set multiple timers using different 6 different probes based on temp or time, so I can get it done that way. The loss of cooking data is the only gap in the app if the goal is to keep it simple (as the name "Easy" implies).

I’m being a little harsh on a 1 star review as I love the general product but if history disappears and the alarms never go off unless you have the app open on your phone it’s kind of pointless. If this is user error, please reach out, explain to me and I will update my rating. I shouldn’t ever loose blue tooth connection I’m 50’ from the pit and it never appears to happen but I can’t keep history or ever get an alarm to come through. At the very least I’d expect an alarm if it disconnected (sometimes I get those but not when I go to bed expecting to get an alarm if the unit is out of temperature bounds).

I have a 6 input wireless thermometer that recommends this app. Unfortunately, the app has some terrible features. You can’t change the scale or zoom in on either the time scale or the temperature when viewing the graphs. A vertical scale with ticks for 0, 41, and 141° is not useful at all for determine how fast the temp is rising. Also, only showing time ticks every 10-30 minutes is pretty useless for deterring rise rates too.

Also, if you EVER disconnect, the app erases all of the logging history.

Developers, please add the ability to zoom in and change the scales on the graphs. Also, do not erase the entire temperature log every time the probe disconnects.

I purchase one of these over a year ago. I have 4 probes. The device connects to my phone flawlessly. The probes are easy to identify and manage. I liked this system so much, I just ordered another system with 2 extra probes for my Yacht. The interface is easy to use and has an intuitive set up. With 6 separately programed probes, cooking multiple dinners to individual liking is easy.