The Smobot

GrillSgt

This thing is the bomb. I bought one early this year when they had the big sale (or maybe late last year). The first time I tried to use it I had an issue (don't remember what) so I put it back on the shelf. Had another small issue this time and called and got a great response promptly. I had already solved the issue. Well this thing is unreal.

However I do have an issue. It seems that I get knocked off every hour or two and have to log back in. I believe that it is still connected as the 5am alarm I got for temp was accompanied by the error notice. Anyone else have this problem?

This is the only controller I have used so I can't judge any of the others but I can't imagine anything being better.

YukonRon

I have the Smobot, and I think I know what you are saying. I keep mine on line, during the entire cook, and infrequently check the status.

I have yet to be knocked off, so to speak, but I do "refresh" the page.

It is nice to have the graph to monitor the cook, but the Smobot, as far as I am concerned, is "set and forget". Incredible product, and glad I bought it, November, last year, on sale.

I did have one problem, one of the leads went bad, for whatever reason, and was immediately replaced, after giving the entire system a check.

Great product, great service, one of the best purchases I have made for my BGE.

jdkeithbge

I haven't encountered this problem.  Could be a network/router issue instead of a Smobot issue?

GrillSgt

That is what I suspected. I live in the country and speed  as in high speed should be always followed by a ?.

mEGG_My_Day

The Smobot is awesome.  I've never had the problem you describe.  When logging in,  I use the 'remember me' function, so I usually don't even log in from cook to cook.  

As pointed out above, maybe you have a wifi issue.

Grillinois

The only time I had an issue was when I rebooted my router after Smobot was already running.  After reboot I couldn't reconnect to Smobot.  I cycled power to Smobot and everything worked fine after that.

GrillSgt

Putin 

StillH2OEgger

The only issue I have had with mine is losing the connection with my phone (little blue dot in corner of the unit goes off), but that was mainly this winter during cold weather, which may or may not have been the issue. No issues the last few times. Even when that happened, it only affected my monitoring of the cook because the temperature control was rock steady the whole time. Really like the simplicity and how well this product works.

reinhart36

Hi Guys,

There's actually a new firmware release available for SMOBOT that has more robust Wi-Fi reconnect behavior in the event that the connection is lost for some reason.  The latest version is 3.4.

I believe firmware updates can be triggered from mysmobot.com these days, but I'm not sure I've tried recently..

Thanks!

SoCal_Griller

SMOBOT is the bomb!  I have never had an issue with the connection to mysmobot.com.  The only issue I had was when I closed the lid with the damper cable inside the egg.  It fried.  The only fix was to send it back for cable/controller replacement.  Service was great, I had it back in no time.  Call me late for dinner, but don't take my SMOBOT!

GrillSgt

reinhart36 said:

Hi Guys,

There's actually a new firmware release available for SMOBOT that has more robust Wi-Fi reconnect behavior in the event that the connection is lost for some reason.  The latest version is 3.4.

I believe firmware updates can be triggered from mysmobot.com these days, but I'm not sure I've tried recently..

Thanks!

I didn't see anything about 3.4 but I logged in, selected update and was told I had the latest version 1.1.  

reinhart36

I gather Curtis needs to make a small change behind the scenes to get www.mysmobot.com to point at the new firmware, which will be done soon.

In the meantime, you can get to the new firmware update by loading the "local page" from your smobot controller.

Just power-up your smobot, and when the blue light turns on (indicating it's connected to your wifi network), scroll down the smobot hardware interface to the line that shows an IP address.

If you type that IP address into the address bar of a web browser on another device that's also connected to your home wifi, a SMOBOT webpage will load.

Click on the update tab at the top, and you'll see that the available version is 4.  Click "update" and wait for a a couple of minutes.  You'll see the controller reboot twice during the update sequence.  Once it restarts and shows firmware version 4.3 on the welcome screen, you're all set!

GrillSgt

Great. Thanks 

Jeremiah

In case my wife calls any of you asking, yes this is what I want for my birthday. 

GrillSgt

Pics or it didn’t happen. 

GrillSgt

So I’m getting a N/A at the IP. And yes Wifi says on. 

GrillSgt

Never mind it just popped up. 

GrillSgt

That worked, thanks.