Recent content by Steve Roxberg

Stuart, I am using a forty foot USB cablet that I purchased from a company that specializes in quality cables. I believe their name was usbfirewire.com If send me a not and I'll look it up. Their cable works great and between it and the six footer that came with my unit I have plenty of...

Where do you live, I have a CyberQII and would gladly help you test it, and I have two other pit probes as well. I live in Kansas City but frequently get to Columbia, MO and Des Moines, IA.

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Sheldon Koehler: Stoker also has the ability to monitor more than 2 pits. If I decide I actually like Comps, I may want 4 WSM's some day. If I was only...

Amir is correct and I'm sorry if I misrepresented what I'm working on. It is the PC software that interfaces with the CyberGuru II, but not what I would call the firmware burned to a EPROM on the device itself. I'm limited to what I can control.

Sure, are you currently a customer of The BBQ Guru? Or just interested in looking at some real C# code. You can send me an e-mail at my first initial followed by my last name at kc . rr . com

Are you sure that your pit probe wasn't touching a peice of meat? Or connecte to the grate so close to the meat that it was reading the temp of a cold grate. Leaving the lid off for too long can also feed the fire. I would have almost shut the top vent and waited till it went down.

Mark, what is confusing is that you state "it fell open". If installed correctly my understanding is that it falls to a closed position and that the fan pushes it up out of the way so that it can fall shut. It can't fall open and be installed corrected that is what's confusing.

My changes are to the PC software so it won't change how the standalone CyberQ works one bit. Hacking in would be difficult since I will be implementing security to prevent it. A user name and password will be required to access the web based portion of this project. So it sounds like the...

Bill, The e-mail changes are done and work great. For now I'm done with the e-mail changes that I can think of which were to consolidate all of the information for Pit one together, and all the information for Pit Two togeter and making Pit two conditional based on the Pit2 Temp. That works...

You will be more than fine with a 25 foot cable, but I'd probably buy a longer one to be safe, say fifty foot. You can use one that's too long, but not one that's too short.

The BBQ Guru was kind enough to let me have a copy of their source code for CyberQ II interface. In a past life I was a programmer so I'm treating this as a hobby project to modify their code to better suit my needs. I have drawn out a plan that I believe will allow me to modify their program...

I built a case to protect my Guru while in use, and to store it in. Here are some pictures. It's a pretty clean look and fairly waterproof. I don't show the lid but it comes down well past the edge of the lid so water tension won't allow it to work it's way back up.

If you buy it from Costco your risk is zero percent. They will take it back for no reason and issue a full refund and in fact they'll do it one year later. I just returned a coffer maker that I had owned for almost two years, no box, and no receipt. They found the receipt and issued a cash...

I noticed how you have your Pit probe attached and have two suggestions that I think work well for me. With the alligator clip connected to the grate I've been afraid that the temps might become skewed in one direction or the other since you are reading the tempature of the metal more than the...

I own a CyberQ II and have a few observations. 1. You can put all the unlit briquits or lump that you want and it hasn't ever caused a high temp on mine. For a long cook I've put as much as fifteen pounds in without a problem. 2. Seven coals is fine as a start. I've been known to start three...