Recent content by Chris Peisher

I am his “buddy”. Here is my graph from a recent cook with identical settings except for the set point. My HM and grill have always had rock solid temp control since my initial PID calibrations years ago. I can also take the same thermocouple probe, HM and blower over to a 3’x5’ concrete fire...

Me too! So i bought the recommended wifi dongle from the wiki (Edimax EW-7811Un 150Mbps Wireless 11n Nano) and have it ready to install. If i'm already configured with the built in wifi chip on the rPi, do i just plug in the dongle and boot the HM and it figures it all out? How to i set it...

Well for some reason when I conencted to it jsut now the configuration error screen has fixed itself i guess and is back to normal. I didn't do anything different. Perhaps it just needed a hard reset?

OK i downloaded the .gz file and flashed it. It seems to be working but i get two errors when i click on certain tabs in the configuration. The first on is on the configuration page itself, and then another shows up on the credits tab. I'm not sure if these are normal?

Thanks for the response Bryan! I plugged in the heter meter inside my house and very close to the wifi AP and it's linked up ok for now. According to the linkmeter package version i'm on v14. I did try to flash that file through the URL but i get an error "The uploaded image file does not...

So other than the HM failing to reliably connect to the wifi these days, my HM has been a flawless performer for the last 3 years. I have a Raspberry Pi Model 3B 1GB revision 2, coupled with a HM board built by John Bostwick in November of 2016. I'd like to get the wifi connection reliably...

Hey guys, I've been a HM user for a while now with my Primo Grill. I'm cooking a whole pig this year, again, on a block pit I'm building in my backyard. I've been thinking about using my HM to control the cook by using my RotoDamper to force feed or reduce air flow to the pit. I was thinking...

The outside off the bag was wet when I went out there this morning, but the charcoal itself seemed dry when i poured it into the grill. But it could have been wet, or maybe it wasn't doing something else properly. I don't really know, I'm pretty sure it wasn't the heater meter, cause it...

Fired up the grill this morning and put a brisket on a few hours later. Coals kept going out no matter how hard the fan blew. This really sucks. I wasnt at home so had to keep bugging my wife to go out and relight the coals, finally said to heck with it and had her put it in the oven so...

Tel me of this... Reflow oven...

Thanks John!. What would better results look like compared to the graph above?

Here is the Image showing the full ~13 hour cook https://imgur.com/a/xgAS7 And here are the current settings. https://imgur.com/a/dVD4U I have to say that I'm extremely pleased with the performance over the first 10 hours. And again, this us with only a half load of charcoal. I really...

Here is today's cook, and still going https://imgur.com/a/nZ16a

Here is the final graph. Seems that after all the fiddling around i would have been much better off leaving it alone with the original settings. https://imgur.com/a/Ll6QT I now know i can go right at 12 hours on less than a half load of charcoal.

I'm using the roto damper assembly. Here are my current settings i just changed at 21:10 EST https://imgur.com/a/otA73 And here is the current graph https://imgur.com/a/ixubL At 18:15 i fished the fan min to 70%. That didn't really fix the "problem". At 1945ish i opened the lid and...