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Description
Turn your smart device into a remote control for your digital electric smoker by Masterbuilt! With the new integrated Bluetooth® Smart technology, operating your smoker becomes even easier. Smoke your favorite foods with more convenience with Masterbuilt, bringing smoker controls right at your fingertips.
FOR USE WITH BLUETOOTH-COMPATIBLE MASTERBUILT SMOKERS ONLY!
FEATURES
Control multiple Masterbuilt digital electric smokers with a single mobile device.
Control the same Masterbuilt digital electric smoker from multiple devices.
Set your smoking temperature.
Set your smoking time.
Monitor your smoker from the comfort of your couch.
FOR USE WITH BLUETOOTH-COMPATIBLE MASTERBUILT SMOKERS ONLY!
FEATURES
Control multiple Masterbuilt digital electric smokers with a single mobile device.
Control the same Masterbuilt digital electric smoker from multiple devices.
Set your smoking temperature.
Set your smoking time.
Monitor your smoker from the comfort of your couch.
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2.2
425 total
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4 32
3 45
2 63
1 219
Jeff Austin
Temperature runaway The app keeps setting the smoker temp to 899 degrees. The heating element was on and the smoker temp climbed above 350. Who knows what temperature it would have climbed to. Besides ruining a brisket, this could have melted or damaged the unit. Possibly even started a fire. Won't be using the app anymore. Frustrating to pay extra for the Bluetooth model and now i can't enjoy it. I love the smoker. The app needs serious fixing.
Paul Whitlinger
The app worked on setup, but as soon as I walked away from the smoker and lost connection, my phone will not reconnect. Like many others, I tried to set it up again to no avail. It's truely had to believe that a company would tout this option on the front of their box whenever it works so incredibly poorly. Did a high school kid write this app? Masterbuilt border on false advertising when consumers are making their decision on purchasing this unit, assuming the app is reliable (or works at all). An easy class action for a tenacious attorney?
Ron Mueller
Bluetooth doesn't work Have not been able to connect the Bluetooth since I bought the 30" smoker on Feb. 27th. This is the main reason I bought this smoker. My S5 recognized the smoker but will not connect. Very agrevating! Hope this issue is resolved soon!......Update July 4th 2016....Finally Bluetooth is working!..so far. As long as it keeps working this is a great thing!
David Vu
Do Not Download this App. Please due your research first on all MES Bluetooth smokers. You will notice multiple users have said their smoker controller reads 899 degrees F. If you use your bluetooth device to monitor or change the temperature you will ruin your food because the masterbuilt app. lacks the encoding software to properly signal the smoker. The app. does not control the smoker properly because the software does not stop sending the active temperature signal because the app incorrectly sends the response signal. Once you use your bluetooth device the Bluetooth signal is looped therefore creating the scenario of "ALWAYS On" (heating mode), this is why the controller reads 899 degrees. The app. uses a generic broadspectrum hopping signal (straight-up 1990's bluetooth technology) that's inefficient, which is also why multiple users claim the smoker continues to disconnect routinely. I love bbq and know some IT. Masterbuilt has known about these app. issues and has not realized the amount of software update and trouble shooting that is required. Do yourself a favor, go buy a decent electric smoker and a good wireless temperature probe.
Disconnects at about 6 feet and then forget it----will not reconnect. Pointless. Update: Tried using it again about 5 months later figuring they'd have done something to fix it. Nope. They obviously have no interest. Too bad. The smoker itself works well.
Joe Gottwaldt
App doesn't work. The Bluetooth disconnects way too often, which wouldn't be a big deal if it reconnected smoothly or on it's own. The app for my phone is almost worthless. I was able to change the temp from my phone one time and somehow it got set to 800°, which isn't supposed to be possible. This could be a great app and I'd be willing to give five stars if the app would just function like it's designed to. Shouldn't be a hard fix.
User reviews
Temperature runaway The app keeps setting the smoker temp to 899 degrees. The heating element was on and the smoker temp climbed above 350. Who knows what temperature it would have climbed to. Besides ruining a brisket, this could have melted or damaged the unit. Possibly even started a fire. Won't be using the app anymore. Frustrating to pay extra for the Bluetooth model and now i can't enjoy it. I love the smoker. The app needs serious fixing.
The app worked on setup, but as soon as I walked away from the smoker and lost connection, my phone will not reconnect. Like many others, I tried to set it up again to no avail. It's truely had to believe that a company would tout this option on the front of their box whenever it works so incredibly poorly. Did a high school kid write this app? Masterbuilt border on false advertising when consumers are making their decision on purchasing this unit, assuming the app is reliable (or works at all). An easy class action for a tenacious attorney?
Bluetooth doesn't work Have not been able to connect the Bluetooth since I bought the 30" smoker on Feb. 27th. This is the main reason I bought this smoker. My S5 recognized the smoker but will not connect. Very agrevating! Hope this issue is resolved soon!......Update July 4th 2016....Finally Bluetooth is working!..so far. As long as it keeps working this is a great thing!
Do Not Download this App. Please due your research first on all MES Bluetooth smokers. You will notice multiple users have said their smoker controller reads 899 degrees F. If you use your bluetooth device to monitor or change the temperature you will ruin your food because the masterbuilt app. lacks the encoding software to properly signal the smoker. The app. does not control the smoker properly because the software does not stop sending the active temperature signal because the app incorrectly sends the response signal. Once you use your bluetooth device the Bluetooth signal is looped therefore creating the scenario of "ALWAYS On" (heating mode), this is why the controller reads 899 degrees. The app. uses a generic broadspectrum hopping signal (straight-up 1990's bluetooth technology) that's inefficient, which is also why multiple users claim the smoker continues to disconnect routinely. I love bbq and know some IT. Masterbuilt has known about these app. issues and has not realized the amount of software update and trouble shooting that is required. Do yourself a favor, go buy a decent electric smoker and a good wireless temperature probe.
Disconnects at about 6 feet and then forget it----will not reconnect. Pointless. Update: Tried using it again about 5 months later figuring they'd have done something to fix it. Nope. They obviously have no interest. Too bad. The smoker itself works well.
App doesn't work. The Bluetooth disconnects way too often, which wouldn't be a big deal if it reconnected smoothly or on it's own. The app for my phone is almost worthless. I was able to change the temp from my phone one time and somehow it got set to 800°, which isn't supposed to be possible. This could be a great app and I'd be willing to give five stars if the app would just function like it's designed to. Shouldn't be a hard fix.
It's OK Definitely NEEDS a way to set an alarm based on meat probe temperature. SO MANY recipes including a lot of the dadgum good ones published by masterbuilt have the stopping point when the meat reaches a certain temperature and would be great to not have to constantly check the app s it gets close to done because I don't want my meat overcooked
Bluetooth work fine for the first 4 times I used the smoker now it's not connecting I Uninstalled the app but it's still not connecting also try to create a new smoker profile, this sucks the only reason I got this smoker was because of the bt capabilities but now I can't connect SO WHAT'S THE POINT GETTING IT FIFTH TIME USING IT CAN BT WON'T CONNECT. WON'T RECOMMEND THIS TO ANYONE
It works I liked the app before when it was all button presses instead of sliders. I know a degree here and there doesn't matter but trying to get it set takes longer this way. Also if you exit the app and go back into it later the temp slider is down to 35 degrees and it makes me concerned about the temp staying were I set it.
Love the idea of it, but both times attempting to use it, smoker went WAY above temperature without any warning at all. That would be terrible if it decided to catch fire and I wasn't right there to contain it. In which case, what is the point of this app?
Smoker is great, app needs some work. Works good enough but has some bugs. Can't stop timers from beeping sometimes. Can't connect sometimes, or it just cycles connecting/disconnecting (S5). Have to close my keyboard to see some options, like in the handy pre named timers section. The slide to set temp and time is very sensitive. Having a 10 key option would be nice. After a lockup and restarting the app, temp is reset to 35. - Love the smoker and whole idea of this app, just needs some work.
Needs meat temp alarm Works decent. On the first use, I did the initial setup of the smoker through the app. Later, I found the smoker temp to be way too high. I suspect this might be a glitch from my phone getting out of Bluetooth range, and the smoker then not having a temperature setting to maintain. The app would benefit from being able to set an alarm based on meat temperature sensed at the probe.
Great smoker but app sets temp way too high. The smoker is great. However, the app sets the temp to 800 degrees if you use it to set the temp. The only work around I have found is set the temp manually and monitor with the app. The app connects from inside my house so I am not sure if it is due to types of device's bluetooth used that causes connectivity issues.
Too easy to button dial This app remains active on the screen. There is no way to lock in settings. I was smoking a pork butt @ 225 for 13 hours. Everything was working fine. About six hours in, I noticed that the temperature was down to 95. The only thing I can figure is that app became live in my pocket and I butt dialed the temperature down. A control lock would be nice.
Needs Major Work When the app first opens or is restarted (by force stopping the application and re-opening it) it works well until the first disconnect due to proximity. The Bluetooth range is not very long and any disconnect causes the app to go into a cycle of reconnections. Additionally, there are random set temperature jumps that occur during the reconnections. Hopefully, there will be an effort by the company to improve the app until it works properly. Until then I wouldn't recommend using it.
NEEDS A FIX NOW! OR CHANGING COMPANIES This app would be great if it was actually easy and convenient to use. However. When you exit the app, it automatically resets to 35*. This is extremely frustrating that you have to have the app running the entire time in order to keep the temp. Fix it. In think regular push button instead of sliders would be a lot easier. It seems as if you went for the "cool" factor, but made the app a pain to use.
Doesn't keep temp set It does not maintain the temperature setting unless the app is open. I shouldn't have to keep the app open for an hours long smoking process. Running in the background is fine, obviously. But I either have to open the app and leave it open the entire time I'm smoking or open it every 10 minutes to reset my temperature. So this essentially defeats the purpose of our purchasing a Bluetooth compatible smoker.
Great app if you want to look at a picture of a smoker. Huuuge amount of real estate dedicated to the picture and the tiny little control drawer at the bottom doesn't work. Good concept but poor design.
Bluetooth does not reconnect Great when it works but once it gets disconnected it will not reconnect without removing and re-adding the smoker. I may return the entire smoker after only one use. Extremely frustrating for the money that I paid for the smoker!
Buggy, but handy It's a good start to what I hope will someday be a great app. Bluetooth range is not great, doesn't usually reconnect automatically. No alerts for internal meat probe. Doesn't sync the manual changes to temp and time to application very well at all.
Um? My wife just bought this for my birthday, It is the 40 elite model with legs,gloves and cover. A $500 piece. Junk right out of the box. The bluetooth will not work (which I feared ) not even realizing what was happening here in the reviews. I see no replies to any of these reviews which is potentially disturbing considering how connected smokers are with the facespace and tweety pages.
I deleted this garbage app. Will not connect to my smoker anymore. Masterbuilt makes a great smoker but should leave apps to people that know how to do it. HORRIBLE APP!!! Cannot create my own alarm names, set food temp alarm and worst of all, if I set the temp with the app, the smoker set well above 800 degrees. These need fixed and for now, I don't trust this app.
This app does not control smoker properly Warning! The when you set the temp on the app the smoker might heat without stopping at your desired limit. I have a 30" materbuilt pro digital electric smoker (model 20072415). This happened the 3rd time I used this smoker. I set the smoker to 215 with the app and when I came back an hour later the smoker was at 270, with the heating element still on. When I tried to change the temperature it cycled from 815 to 890. After I restarted the smoker I was able to set the temperature on the smoker itself.
Same problem as everyone else. Set temp on phone, watched the temperature zip right on past the setting. Went out to the smoker and the set temp on the display was 889 or something like that. Can't trust it so it is unusable. The smoker works great from the control panel but the bt is useless. Unless they can assure me they have a fix coming it will be going back to the store.
This app really sucks. It worked a little at first but then it set my smoker temp up over 800 degrees! Way too hot. Now, it will connect but I can't get the control screen up. It has the current time and temp on the bottom, but when I touch the up arrow to bring it up, it will not slide up no matter what I do. what a POS. I hope the app gets fixed soon because the bluetooth function was a big reason that I bought this particular smoker.
App sucks or the smoker does! Set for 220 and monitored for 30 minutes. Thought hey, this is great. Next thing I know my unit is running at 253 and still heating. Won't rely on this for anything. Will continue to use the smoker to determine if it's the unit or the app. Looked at setting on unit and it indicated 800 degrees. It's the app. Please fix.
Needs improved. Needs better connectivity of bluetooth. After bluetooth is disconnected, it has a hard time reconnecting. I have to kill app then restart it. When reconnected, it doesn't keep current temp. Also, it needs to have an offline mode, so that when you are out of bluetooth range, the timer keeps going. Also needs alarm for desired meat temp reached. Keep working on it.
Worked ok till update Its been repaired now and works as it did prior to the bad previous update. All good now. Wow hard to believe update total trashed any use and developers did not have a clue. Worked fine first two months then I updated it without checking other reviews first. Now no workie at all. Another lesson that you do not fix something not broke.
Temperature randon The app works great we do have a random problem with temp at 800 degrees plus. Not sure if the Bluetooth gets out of range or what but it happens all the time. Please look into this issue as others are having the same problem. Watch your temp carefully.
As others stated, when you exit the app you have to reconnect the blue tooth every. Single. Time. The "remote" then stays minimized, cannot use it other than seeing the smoker temp. Useless.
The app is very limited in what it can do. The first time I used it with my new smoker it failed me. I had the temp set for 225 but noticed the internal temp was above 300. I looked at the digital display on the smoker and it displayed that it was set above 800 degrees. The smoker is great but the app is useless until they deside to put some effort into changing that.
Bluetooth doesn't work consistently. Worked initially and then in the middle of my first smoking session Bluetooth disconnected and was worthlessness the rest of the time. Way to get people to spend more money on an "upgraded" model that doesn't even work as advertised. Do NOT buy this model smoker until Masterbuilt decides to correct the problem!
This app has gone down hill. Rarely connects anymore. Every phone update the worse this app works, but masterbuilt doesn't ever update the app to fix the bugs.
Fix your crap! It keeps crashing. When it does, it randomly chooses a new temperature, usually if 800+ degrees. Nothing like having it set at 225, but you realize that the smoker is over 350. Wishing I had ordered the one with a standard wireless remote.
It keeps turning the heat off When it works, it is incredibly convenient. But when I use it, it invariably turns the heat off. After several attempts, including connecting and then just leaving my phone on the coffee table, I have given up. Very disappointing.
0 Stars doesn't work via Bluetooth My specs are Nexus 5x Android 7 N , Master built 30. Problem is can't connect to Bluetooth in app even after phone and smoker are paired. Will change rating if ever get app to work.
Awesome! ! I just bought this thing and everything works fine as it should! Literally just finished putting it together and I'm starting to season it, Bluetooth hooked up and turned it on with my phone! I don't know why everybody else is saying the notwithstanding don't work. Just turn on Bluetooth, hit scan, then in the smoker hold down the temp until beep then on your phone hit connect. I'll update after I use this more
Horrible app Paid well over 300 for this smoker. Didn't care for the Bluetooth app, but worked out to be part of the better smoker deal @ Sam's Club. Got the app, and is terrible. Connects very random, and has never stayed connected. Will not reconnect, either. I just use the timer on my phone, and I'm gonna say bye to the app. As for the smoker itself, took a week for me to receive the parts for assembly. Overall, app gets a <1 star, company(customer service) gets a 2 star, smoker itself gets a 3.5.
Ummm Just breaking out the smoker this year, it connected like a dream, but didn't there used to be a meat temp alarm? I swear there was last fall, but now it isn't there? That is one of the most useful tools to someone trying to multitask! PLEASE ADD THIS FEATURE!!!!
Added aggravation I bought this smoker for the ease of the Bluetooth. That was the whole seeking point. The app is crap. A company like mastetbuilt should be to a higher standard than this. Is there antithetical app that can connect to my MES?
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What's New
FEATURES:
Control multiple Masterbuilt digital electric smokers with a single mobile device.
Control the same Masterbuilt digital electric smoker from multiple devices.
Set your smoking temperature.
Set your smoking time and receive alerts
Monitor the internal meat temperature from the comfort of your home.
Power your smoker and smoker light on/off.
IMPROVEMENTS:
Fixed bluetooth connectivity issue.
Support for Marshmallow.
Additional information
Updated
February 10, 2016
Installs
10,000 - 50,000
Current Version
2.0.2
Requires Android
4.3 and up
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