Somewhat disappointed. I need some more time to diagnose, but neither probe worked well in it's maiden voyage. Full disclosure, my fried & his son came by, so I was distracted but I don't think that played into the probe issues.
Reverse seared 2 1.5" ribeyes yesterday. Meater probes were working, connected to phone. I placed them back in charger until steaks were ready to go on. I placed the probes in, past the line & almost up to the ceramic portion. Put on grill, dome temp read 290-300F.
1. I didn't 'set up a cook', so it didn't save the info. My mistake
2. Ambient temp doesn't work at room temp (hold in hand for 5-10sec & it starts reading 80-87F, when internal temp says 70-72F. During the portion of the cook where both probes were connected, ambient was 10-12F different on each probe, despite being placed next to each other, almost touching. It's possible the meat affected it, but I would expect closer. Perhaps they would have moved towards each other, had #3 not happened.
3. Halfway through the smoke (about 85-90F on the other steak), one probe dropped out & would not reconnect. Today, rebooted my phone & it mysteriously reconnected. the faulty probe somehow got listed as 'meater link probe (wifi)' until it reconnected. You can't remove probes from the 'add or remove probes' menu, so I think it was software.
4. Range from probe to phone was non-existent, they claim 10m through metal. Closing the lid of my big steel keg would cause both probes to drop almost every time, the probe that worked full cook would stay connected sometimes. Again, I was distracted, so I will troubleshoot a bit more.