ENDED - Smoke™ Gateway (Wi-Fi bridge for Smoke) On Sale

[lostclusters]

https://www.thermoworks.com/Smoke-Ga...eekend-Sale-cs

[Troutman]

Thanks for the heads up, that’s a good buy BUT they still need to overcome the two probe limitation. If they do that they will be back in the game. Even then they don’t have a true fan controller capability. Love my Smoke for what it is, just don’t like it for what it isn’t.

[Huskee]

Now it's more in the realms of realistic pricing, in my personal opinion.

[Powersmoke_80]

But the true question is, is it worth it and how well does it work?

[Lost in China]

I want it, but it's a first generation product and might be buggy. Moreover my wifi doesn't reach to the outdoors. And the Android app might be buggy. Since they very likely outsourced development to India, I don't have high hopes. There's already a negative review on the linked page saying that the app stops as soon as the phone goes to sleep. You're supposed to keep touching the screen every 30 seconds to keep it on throughout the entire cook?

And best of all, they harvest your data and likely sell it. That's what happened to me with my Anova sous vide. I bought it after it being recommended by this site's members, and lo and behold one day it refuses to work unless I register my email. Evidently so I can be a part of their "community". I want to cook, not be a part of some idiot internet friend group. Yup, turns out my cook data is valuable and they want to sell it. It's not my device, it's theirs and they'll set the conditions to use it even a year after I bought it.

[Mosca]

For $70 I’ll walk outside and look at the readout.