I am so ecstatic right now! I have been fighting with this for six months!
About six months ago, my Chimp suddenly stopped working wirelessly. I could delete and re-add the grill to the app, but the wireless connection would simply not work after that. It was extremely perplexing. I could set up the grill via bluetooth and add it to my wireless network, but then it would just stop after that. "Grill Connection Lost" error.
I have a network engineering background and I thought I had tried everything, reinstalling the app, new network, no special characters in SSID, new ISP (I tried three!), new router, new extender. (I even wireshark'ed it, for those that know what that is.)
It was soooo frustrating. I was nearly at the point of trying to engineering a means to convert the ifexpress card in the Chimp to ethernet!
If has been about a month since I last fiddled with it, so today I gave it "one more try" and noticed for the very first time that when I re-added my Chimp to the app, the last used date was 2025-07-08. It should not know that. I've been deleting the grill. (I've been deleting the app for that matter!) Hmmm....
I deleted and re-added the Chimp, but this time, I gave it a *different name.* Works perfectly now.
Apparently there is a bug (at least for me) in which some faulty setting was stored with the name of the grill in wherever Grilla keeps their account data in the cloud. (In other words, when you delete a grill from the app, it does not delete it from your account.) A new name is all I needed to do to move beyond that. (For those with a database background, I guess they are using the name of the grill rather than the serial number as a primary key....odd.)
Such a simple thing and I am slightly irked that it took me half a year to try that! But I am glad I have my Chimp back up and fully running. I had really missed seeing its status on my phone.
About six months ago, my Chimp suddenly stopped working wirelessly. I could delete and re-add the grill to the app, but the wireless connection would simply not work after that. It was extremely perplexing. I could set up the grill via bluetooth and add it to my wireless network, but then it would just stop after that. "Grill Connection Lost" error.
I have a network engineering background and I thought I had tried everything, reinstalling the app, new network, no special characters in SSID, new ISP (I tried three!), new router, new extender. (I even wireshark'ed it, for those that know what that is.)
It was soooo frustrating. I was nearly at the point of trying to engineering a means to convert the ifexpress card in the Chimp to ethernet!
If has been about a month since I last fiddled with it, so today I gave it "one more try" and noticed for the very first time that when I re-added my Chimp to the app, the last used date was 2025-07-08. It should not know that. I've been deleting the grill. (I've been deleting the app for that matter!) Hmmm....
I deleted and re-added the Chimp, but this time, I gave it a *different name.* Works perfectly now.
Apparently there is a bug (at least for me) in which some faulty setting was stored with the name of the grill in wherever Grilla keeps their account data in the cloud. (In other words, when you delete a grill from the app, it does not delete it from your account.) A new name is all I needed to do to move beyond that. (For those with a database background, I guess they are using the name of the grill rather than the serial number as a primary key....odd.)
Such a simple thing and I am slightly irked that it took me half a year to try that! But I am glad I have my Chimp back up and fully running. I had really missed seeing its status on my phone.
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