Controlling with Wifi or Bluetooth

[mrchicks]

I had this problem too but my wife was giving me the side eye when I when I started talking about buying more gadgets... I ended up getting a cheap ($29) wifi extender and putting it in the window where the grill is. Works throughout the house now and we live in a 60s cinder block home. As far as the Bluetooth connectivity, I gave up on that the first day. I do use my ThermoPro wireless (which has no problem with Bluetooth connection) just to keep my PB probes honest.

 

[Solly]

I have issues also, wi-fi wont hook up even though wi-fi signal for all other devices reaches all corners of my yard !!
HOWEVER the blue tooth portion works just fine so I just use that, range a little limited but it reaches my fat man recliner and kitchen so
I just use that. I plan on investing on the ThermoPro dual pack wireless probes in the near future.

 

[sntlewis]

For me... bluetooth won't connect even when standing beside grill. Third control board (original, replacement, now 2nd replacement) comes in today. So even if it works, it is still a 66% failure rate. But I don't expect it to work. I will have PB CS on the phone the moment the box is opened through the install, setup, firmware update, and we will see..

 

[KC_Mike]

My PS850S2 doesn't see wifi during the addition of the grill then only connects with Bluetooth when it's in shutdown mode after that. I have a dedicated 2.4GHz network for these types of devices and it doesn't even see it even if I have the phone connected to that network during the grill addition. I have a feeling that the firmware update pushed bad code to the grill and they have no way around that yet.

 

[sntlewis]

New Android App this AM. Version 2.0.1 same as 1.6.2. App did not update firmware on grill. Back to Support! As cannot test beyond my PB1150ps2 with Android app...