As I've written, I have done everything I could think of to figure out why my Chimp's AlphaConnect loses connectivity so often. (Since late January, I lost the capability of starting the grill remotely without unplugging it and plugging it back in. And my grill loses connectivity often and typically does not recover.)
I posted my woes on the Grilla Facebook group this afternoon and one commentator said he had a similar issue and then connected his AlphaConnect to his Verizon MIFI and it solved the problem.
Wait a sec....I have a Verizon MIFI I use for traveling. Lemme try it!
So I deleted my grill from the app and re-hooked it up through my MIFI.
It is working perfectly! Just like my Chimp worked the first 45 days I had it! Bliss!!
This is a very crucial clue. As I have written, I have done nearly everything short of wiring an ethernet port to the Chimp to make it work. Maybe the problem isn't with my local network, but my upstream provider (which is Comcast/Xfinity).
I am still mulling through how this solved things....and I need to go through some more cooks to be sure....but this is promising.
I posted my woes on the Grilla Facebook group this afternoon and one commentator said he had a similar issue and then connected his AlphaConnect to his Verizon MIFI and it solved the problem.
Wait a sec....I have a Verizon MIFI I use for traveling. Lemme try it!
So I deleted my grill from the app and re-hooked it up through my MIFI.
It is working perfectly! Just like my Chimp worked the first 45 days I had it! Bliss!!
This is a very crucial clue. As I have written, I have done nearly everything short of wiring an ethernet port to the Chimp to make it work. Maybe the problem isn't with my local network, but my upstream provider (which is Comcast/Xfinity).
I am still mulling through how this solved things....and I need to go through some more cooks to be sure....but this is promising.
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