So in full transparency, I am apparently an idiot who just fried the Raspberry Pi 3 B+ on my perfectly working HeaterMeter 4.3 that I cooked a fantastic turkey on Turkey day. I have always struggled to get my 22" WSM above 325º with the original Adapt-a-damper 6 CFM fan. I decided the day after Thanksgiving this year that I was going to download and build the 15 CFM version. I couldn't get the servo to work so I had the bright idea to troubleshoot with the heatermeter plugged in. Long story short, I shorted out the two servo wires and fried the Raspberry Pi 3 B+. So I ordered one from Amazon. After two days of not getting it to work, I finally found some threads on the Pi forums that talk about the newer Pi 3 B+ boards have changed and are no longer compatible with Pi images from 2021 and older including the newest HeaterMeter image from Bryan.
It starting me down an ultimately failed rabbit hole trying to get the correct files from the latest Pi image onto the HeaterMeter SD card. The HeaterMeter seems to work fine but only through setting the pit temp via the buttons on the box itself. The pi board does grab a dhcp and can get to the internet and register itself on the HeaterMeter website but show an error on that site and I can get to the local web page for my box. Since I am not a developer, I worked with ChatGPT for about 4 hours trying to get the web server to where I can access it but was unsuccessful with ChatGPT telling I need to look for older versions of the Pi 3 B+ boards. I think I have a visual way from the pi forums on how to visually identify the pi 3 B+ boards that work (See the attached picture). I found a local guy in Phoenix that seems to have 150 of the correct version I need. I will pick one up this week and test it.
I also spent a couple of hours putting together an order from Digikey and Mouser for enough parts to build 3 more as spares for the future. I love having this thing and don't want to have to cook without one so I might be going overboard.
More to follow after I pick up the new (old) Pi board this week.
It starting me down an ultimately failed rabbit hole trying to get the correct files from the latest Pi image onto the HeaterMeter SD card. The HeaterMeter seems to work fine but only through setting the pit temp via the buttons on the box itself. The pi board does grab a dhcp and can get to the internet and register itself on the HeaterMeter website but show an error on that site and I can get to the local web page for my box. Since I am not a developer, I worked with ChatGPT for about 4 hours trying to get the web server to where I can access it but was unsuccessful with ChatGPT telling I need to look for older versions of the Pi 3 B+ boards. I think I have a visual way from the pi forums on how to visually identify the pi 3 B+ boards that work (See the attached picture). I found a local guy in Phoenix that seems to have 150 of the correct version I need. I will pick one up this week and test it.
I also spent a couple of hours putting together an order from Digikey and Mouser for enough parts to build 3 more as spares for the future. I love having this thing and don't want to have to cook without one so I might be going overboard.
More to follow after I pick up the new (old) Pi board this week.
