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Life Hack - Monitor Temperature Anywhere
Nashville_Egger
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Smoking pork shoulder all day today. I have a dual probed pit monitor but I wanted to be able to keep track of it on my phone. Decided to point my nest camera (that we use to keep tabs on our dog) at the display and now boom I can watch the temps anywhere in the world.
Figured I'd pass along this wisdom for those of you with baby monitors/nanny cams/nest cams.
Figured I'd pass along this wisdom for those of you with baby monitors/nanny cams/nest cams.
Large BGE - Nashville, TN
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great idea!Richmond and Mathews County, VA. Large BGE, Weber gas, little Weber charcoal. Vintage ManGrates. Little reddish portable kamado that shall remain nameless here. Very Extremely Stable Genius.
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Cool! Really good idea, thanks for sharing.
I would rather light a candle than curse your darkness.
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nice, good call. I'll be retiring the baby monitor soon. Was always kind of worthless...till now!
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Although I did once use it to monitor a garage sale I was having. Camera on, working in basement. Somone would walk up to look at stuff and I could go outside to greet them.
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Missed a great opportunity to rename that camera "Garage 2 - Ferrari" or "Grotto" or "South Entrance" or "BGE XXXL - Blue" or something....Large BGE and Medium BGE
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I've got an older model DropCam (which is now owned by nest) that I have used to monitor my old Thermoworks TW8060 a few times. Now it is set up to monitor my 3d printer (which is much more interesting
). “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” ― Philip K. Diçk -
Used a video baby monitor to keep an eye on my pork butt and Wagyu brisket temps overnight last weekend. Lol.
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Yup. That's saved my butt several times.Large and Small BGECentral, IL
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Travis posted the same thing a few years ago.Slumming it in Aiken, SC.
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Travis boils brisket too.Jeremiah said:Travis posted the same thing a few years ago.I would rather light a candle than curse your darkness.
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I bet you dog is glad not being on camera anymore.Large BGE, MiniMAX BGE, 2 Mini BGE's, R&V Fryer, 36" Blackstone Griddle, Camp Chef Dual Burner 40K BTU StoveBGE ChimineaProsper, TX
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I just recently got a couple of Nest camera's. I love them!
Louisville, GA - 2 Large BGE's -
If I want to know how the egg is doing or what the meat temp is, I just walk outside and look. It's not far.
I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!
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I keep a drone around for this.
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The only problem using a cam for this is that unless you keep looking at it, you may not see when something went awry until it is too late.
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John - do you have to pay the monthly fee for each best cam? That's been one of the only things holding me back.johnkitchens said:I just recently got a couple of Nest camera's. I love them!LBGE since 2014
Griffin, GA
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I just pay a Russian spy.
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There is only a monthly fee if you want to record/store the camera feed. If you just want a real time (mostly real time anyway) stream there is no extra fee.DaveRichardson said:
John - do you have to pay the monthly fee for each best cam? That's been one of the only things holding me back.johnkitchens said:I just recently got a couple of Nest camera's. I love them!“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” ― Philip K. Diçk -
I just got them a couple of weeks ago, but @HeavyG is exactly right. I am going to do the 10 day backup plan for $100 a year per camera. I hate to spend it, but I think it is worth it.HeavyG said:
There is only a monthly fee if you want to record/store the camera feed. If you just want a real time (mostly real time anyway) stream there is no extra fee.DaveRichardson said:
John - do you have to pay the monthly fee for each best cam? That's been one of the only things holding me back.johnkitchens said:I just recently got a couple of Nest camera's. I love them!
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onedbguru said:The only problem using a cam for this is that unless you keep looking at it, you may not see when something went awry until it is too late.
yes but it still better than nothing. I is this a couple weeks ago with a brisket cook. Sure enough, the fire
went out and I was able to rush home to light it back.Slumming it in Aiken, SC. -
That was pretty much the intent when using mine - just check it occasionally to let me know if the fire went out or had jumped too high. No different than a remote reading thermometer as it is not like I would sit and stare at the thermometer the entire time either.Jeremiah said:onedbguru said:The only problem using a cam for this is that unless you keep looking at it, you may not see when something went awry until it is too late.
yes but it still better than nothing. I is this a couple weeks ago with a brisket cook. Sure enough, the fire
went out and I was able to rush home to light it back.“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” ― Philip K. Diçk -
Clever approach. This is why I love my Flame Boss 200. It lets me not only monitor the temp on my phone but adjust it as well.Cincinnati, Ohio. Large BGE since 2011. Still learning.
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