What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol
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I'm an IT nerd but they could not pay me to buy a grill that requires software updates. What a bunch of nonsense.
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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I've got a bluetooth temp probe set too. I use it in my smoker. I'm not trusting that expensive piece of meat to the whims of the gods. I need to know what the temperature of the meat is and when it hit's the target temps.
TBF, I absolutely should have used them, but I was cooking for 25 people, and honestly totally forgot about them. I was rushing about with the BBQ, into the kitchen switching out cooked pizza for uncooked and trying to catch a sip of beer in between all that.... As a result the salmon came out amazing, slow smoked at 60° for 3 hours because I totally forgot about it until the wife would occasionally say: the smoker's not smoking!
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I feel like hackers would always have been more believable than aliens.
You can't really (remotely) hack a machine that doesn't have wireless capabilities or computer chips in them.
In the movie it was just regular, non electronic machines like (pre-computerized) diesel trucks and lawnmowers etc.
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I wouldn’t use it, but if you want one with software then there’s nothing wrong with it updating.
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Realistically they probably didn't use the traeger until the 4th, so they were about a year behind on "updates"
Unless you're my dad, then he finds any excuses he can to use his traeger. The thing can smoke a damn good brisket, software updates be damned!
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I'm an IT nerd but they could not pay me to buy a grill that requires software updates. What a bunch of nonsense.
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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I'm an IT nerd but they could not pay me to buy a grill that requires software updates. What a bunch of nonsense.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I will never need a wifi connected kitchen appliance. A grill fits that category. My grill is a disposable item I buy one every four or five years.
None of my go to devices are internet connected. Not my TV screens. Not my toothbrush. My daily driver is a 2009 Toyota. Its great. No screens and easy to fix.
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A grill should run on charcoal. It needs to get very hot and that's literally it.
There's a universe where I attach some electronic controller with a PID loop or something to a smoker, to maintain consistent temperatures via damper control. I'm not buying that off the shelf built into the machine though.
You're describing the gravity fed charcoal grills from masterbuilt and I love mine. Especially when I toss in a cast iron pan full of bacon and run it at 450 for half an hour.
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I'm an IT nerd but they could not pay me to buy a grill that requires software updates. What a bunch of nonsense.
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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I will never need a wifi connected kitchen appliance. A grill fits that category. My grill is a disposable item I buy one every four or five years.
None of my go to devices are internet connected. Not my TV screens. Not my toothbrush. My daily driver is a 2009 Toyota. Its great. No screens and easy to fix.
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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I love my charcoal grill
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Forwarded this to someone at Traeger. Will let you know if I hear back
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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.
They shoot at it when the food is subpar.
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Sending a temp updates to your phone so you don't have to be standing near it the whole time is a nice feature.
wrote last edited by [email protected]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. Plus he really likes being able to monitor it from his iPad, especially in the winter or if he has to run up to the store real quick.
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And in those four months, did no-one think of firing up WireShark to see what was floating across that network during that time period?
Seems like someone dropped the debug/analysis ball…
wrote last edited by [email protected]As someone in IT, the answer is in the comment.
City Hall is closed by 7:30
So nobody was ever in the office and nobody on the team wanted to stay (I'm guessing here) 2.5 hrs after work to actually do any troubleshooting and because it was never a problem during office hours then who cares
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Yet more reasons that charcoal/firewood is superior.
If you want to spend all day watching it. I set the Traeger and forget it until I get a notification that the food is at temperature.
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I'm an IT nerd but they could not pay me to buy a grill that requires software updates. What a bunch of nonsense.
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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I'm an IT nerd but they could not pay me to buy a grill that requires software updates. What a bunch of nonsense.
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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I love my charcoal grill
With cooking normal beats all.
Gas, coal > electric shit
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Can we go back to dumb tech?
wrote last edited by [email protected]To not connect it to the Internet would probably help and turn it into a normal grill.
