AuberSmart

Base Functionality Fine; Needs More

Though latency with the unit is a bit more than I prefer, the core functionality of setting cooking profiles and changing settings in this app is tolerable. However, it lacks what many reasonable minds would consider to be base functionality on a couple fronts: there’s no way to set temperature alarms and receive notifications, and there’s no Apple Watch support. Why build-in a multi stage cook functionality without setting notifications for stage changes? A simple temperature alarm would be so easy to implement. Rather than adding support for the next product, the developer should add these easily implementable functions. Meathead may have given this a platinum, but I can’t recommend this app and hardware to others until these functions are added. Update 2021.04.21: also need dual y-axis on the plot. One for grill temp; one for food temp—they are at different scales.

Terrible

I REALLY wanted to like this app. I replaced my old smoker controller with the SYL-2615 2 years ago because I wanted to be able to control the grill temp and see the food temp from an app. Every time I have used this since I have regretted that decision. First, I had to change my WiFi password because the device doesn’t support special characters in a password... Oh and not to mention only uses 2.4 GHz. For the price that’s completely unacceptable. Regardless, I kept it because I wanted to like it. When I was still able to connect my controller to my WiFi the app was sluggish and would frequently tell me my device was not available. It’s a truly awful user experience with confusing menus and spelling errors. Since updating my wireless access points I have been unable to connect my controller to my WiFi network. I have tried disabling 5GHz, changing the password to be as basic as possible (8 characters alphanumeric only), attaching a separate 2.4 GHz only AP to my network, and it just. won’t. connect. I know what I’m doing, I have work experience as a network administrator and held a CCNA. I shouldn’t be having these issues with a $250 “smart” device in 2021 (or 2019 when I bought it). I get that in the world of industrial controllers this is probably considered cutting edge, but there are too many options that have a better interface and cost far less. So while the controller itself is great, the app and the SYL-2615’s WiFi capabilities are trash.