- Oct 4, 2013
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tldr; Will the RT software allow you to power on and pre-heat the smoker from a network other than the one it's on?
I have a GMG DB WiFi currently and while the WiFi feature is nice, it's woefully under featured IMO. One of the primary reasons I wanted WiFi was so I could power up and pre-heat the smoker on my way home from a friend's, the store, wherever. The GMG software will ONLY let you start it when you're on the same network.
An example is that I wanted to use it to cook a take-and-bake pizza last night. When the wife got home with it she also noted that our neighbors were outside so we wanted to go over and visit for a bit before cooking/eating. This is a perfect example where I could make sure the cover is off and all is set (just like any other time I would start the smoker up) before we left and then start the process via my app before leaving and coming home. Instead I have to wait until I get home and wait for it to get up to temp before throwing the pizza on to be cooked. This actually takes a bit to go through the startup procedure and get to 425 deg so it would actually save us quite a bit of time before we're able to eat. I have WiFi. I have mobile data. Why can't I just do this while we're on our way home to save 15-30min of delay before we can eat? Hell, the pizza only takes 9 minutes to cook and I have to wait 2-3x that long just for the smoker to come up to temp.
This is SUPER annoying and I realize it could be a potential fire hazard if you're not home when it starts but lets face it, it's a fire hazard in general and once it's started you can monitor and adjust temperature from another network so the line drawn before one of the most important uses makes no sense to me. It would seem that most of the potential dangers exist even just on the WiFi so why limit it to just that? Any ways, I digress. I may be in the market for a new pellet smoker and the RT700 has caught my eye as the most likely replacement at this point in my cursory research. That's one of the larger annoyances from my existing smoker so I want to make sure that my next device fits my needs better.
I'm sure I will have more questions as time rolls on but that's going to be the biggest deciding factor at this point as I don't plan on forking over that kind of money if it won't do what I need and I'll continue to sit on the sideline until it exists.
I have a GMG DB WiFi currently and while the WiFi feature is nice, it's woefully under featured IMO. One of the primary reasons I wanted WiFi was so I could power up and pre-heat the smoker on my way home from a friend's, the store, wherever. The GMG software will ONLY let you start it when you're on the same network.
An example is that I wanted to use it to cook a take-and-bake pizza last night. When the wife got home with it she also noted that our neighbors were outside so we wanted to go over and visit for a bit before cooking/eating. This is a perfect example where I could make sure the cover is off and all is set (just like any other time I would start the smoker up) before we left and then start the process via my app before leaving and coming home. Instead I have to wait until I get home and wait for it to get up to temp before throwing the pizza on to be cooked. This actually takes a bit to go through the startup procedure and get to 425 deg so it would actually save us quite a bit of time before we're able to eat. I have WiFi. I have mobile data. Why can't I just do this while we're on our way home to save 15-30min of delay before we can eat? Hell, the pizza only takes 9 minutes to cook and I have to wait 2-3x that long just for the smoker to come up to temp.
This is SUPER annoying and I realize it could be a potential fire hazard if you're not home when it starts but lets face it, it's a fire hazard in general and once it's started you can monitor and adjust temperature from another network so the line drawn before one of the most important uses makes no sense to me. It would seem that most of the potential dangers exist even just on the WiFi so why limit it to just that? Any ways, I digress. I may be in the market for a new pellet smoker and the RT700 has caught my eye as the most likely replacement at this point in my cursory research. That's one of the larger annoyances from my existing smoker so I want to make sure that my next device fits my needs better.
I'm sure I will have more questions as time rolls on but that's going to be the biggest deciding factor at this point as I don't plan on forking over that kind of money if it won't do what I need and I'll continue to sit on the sideline until it exists.