I received my thermometer a few days ago and used it twice during the Labor Day holiday weekend. The device works well and is easy to setup. In my brisket I put the 4 probes near the end of the flat, mid-flat, mid-point, and end of the point. Having all 4 temps was great to see how things were progressing and to agonize about my first brisket and realizing my stall lasted 7 hours...
Anyway the device worked great and the battery lasts a long time too. I did have a few annoyances with the app (BBQ-4T) so here is my feedback on that.
Overall I'm happy, definitely worth the $50 instead of going for a wi-fi pellet smoker. It seems like based on the fact that Inkbird has reps on this forum that they may improve their app(s) with feedback like this.
Anyway the device worked great and the battery lasts a long time too. I did have a few annoyances with the app (BBQ-4T) so here is my feedback on that.
- Colored rubber things at the bend of each probe discolor super fast after cooking. Not a big deal, what are you going to do...the grill is hot. The probe plugs have colors on the end as well so you can keep track of them.
- I don't quite understand how the graphing function works. Basically I could almost never go to the graph page and easily see the historical data of my cook. It seemed like it either didn't load ("request frequency error", am I overloading their server by asking to see the data so often?), or was at least an hour+ behind. This morning I was able to see the data for my whole cook, but not live for whatever reason. You can see the instant temperatures live obviously, it's just if you want to see it all graphed then you can't necessarily see it live. I think the data is uploaded the cloud through your account, and then is available at some point later.
- I wish you could change the x and y axis zoom on the graph to see the whole cook in one picture instead of just small chunks and needing to scroll back and forth.
- On the app you can't access the historical cook data without first plugging a probe in. Just for fun I wanted to see my temps and cook time this morning, but had to grab a probe to plug into the thermometer first so that graph button would be available to press.
- I calibrated my probes in boiling water and they all seemed to be off by 3 deg F. I think that's reasonable. The app saves the calibration to the probe color, so as long as you plug in your probes and assign the correct color to that probe it will always be correct.
Overall I'm happy, definitely worth the $50 instead of going for a wi-fi pellet smoker. It seems like based on the fact that Inkbird has reps on this forum that they may improve their app(s) with feedback like this.