SMOBOT

IOT Controls LLC

About this app

The SMOBOT App for Android allows you to control and monitor your SMOBOT Automated Grill Controller. Once your SMOBOT is connected to the internet and you have registered it on http://mysmobot.com, use the app to natively monitor and control from anywhere in the world.

Features:

- Monitor current food and grill temperatures
- Monitor damper state and position
- View a graph of your current cook
- Display and change the set point of your SMOBOT
- Set up alarms to be notified when your food reaches a specified temperature
- Set up alarms to be notified if your grill temperature deviates from the set temp

The SMOBOT app works in conjunction with your account on https://mysmobot.com.

Ratings and reviews

I love my smobot but the app is pretty bad. The graph is slow to update, requiring a restart to update on command. The temp alarms don't work at all. The temperature adjusting functions work using up/down buttons instead of text input, so going from 250 to 350 requires 100 taps. In general, the usability isn't great. On the positive side, it's never failed to send a command to the smobot unit.

It works adequately for me to get good cooks. Often it doesn't update unless you kill it and restart. Adding a button to force an update would save some steps. Also a time of last update would help. You can set alarms but they don't ring or anything, so useless. Finally an easy way to say "done, please close damper" would be nice. Half-baked app.

This is simply the best app ever. I worked over 15 years as an automation/process control engineer working with PID and model based temperature contollers and can say without a doubt that this product is a simple effective way to start and maintain a cook. You can light the fire, place the SMOBOT and food and walk away. I have run errands for hours while cooking and never once had to check the temp or make an adjustment to the dampers. What a great product.

What’s new

- Fix text input for Set Temp
- Fix Android notifications in background
- Add Android notifications when app is in foreground
- Fix crash bug when SMOBOT is in manual mode and first logging in