Bob Erdman
TVWBB Pro
Well, after finishing the assembly, I downloaded the app to my phone and connected to the grill. The grill updated in about 5 minutes. All good, or so I thought. Asked the wife to come outside to witness the initial start up.
On the first attempt, the auger was trying to fill the burn pot but hardly any pellets were dispensing. After a few minutes we had smoke. 10 minutes later, no smoke, no fire. Pellets were trickling down occasionally but the glow plug must have turned off. Did a shut down of the grill. Bummer, but maybe round two will be better now that there are pellets in the auger.
Second attempt, this is where things got really interesting. Set temp to 450, few minutes later we have smoke, then more smoke, to much smoke! Did another shut down to stop the smoke, thought my neighbors would call 911 because I was rolling serious smoke. When I looked under the hood, flames were hitting the bottom of the grates. Nice big pellet fire. Thank god there was no grease to ignite because the grill is new.
Okay, need time to asses the situation before trying that again. So, my reasoning was that the hardware part of the equation is working, it must be software that is the issue. I turned off the grill and unplugged it for a few minutes.
Attempt number three, plugged it in, turned on the grill, set for 350 hit start. Success, restarting the grill after uploading software for the first time may have been needed. Silly me, whenever updating a computer I usually reboot the system. I'm no genius but why didn't I think of that earlier? LOL
I did the final burn in at 450 for 40 minutes without any problems. Shut it down, did a quick cleaning before starting my first cook.
First cook went great. SmokeFire was rock steady temp wise. When I connected to the grill with the app it said there was another update in progress but I could continue cooking. Pictures included for your amusement.
On the first attempt, the auger was trying to fill the burn pot but hardly any pellets were dispensing. After a few minutes we had smoke. 10 minutes later, no smoke, no fire. Pellets were trickling down occasionally but the glow plug must have turned off. Did a shut down of the grill. Bummer, but maybe round two will be better now that there are pellets in the auger.
Second attempt, this is where things got really interesting. Set temp to 450, few minutes later we have smoke, then more smoke, to much smoke! Did another shut down to stop the smoke, thought my neighbors would call 911 because I was rolling serious smoke. When I looked under the hood, flames were hitting the bottom of the grates. Nice big pellet fire. Thank god there was no grease to ignite because the grill is new.
Okay, need time to asses the situation before trying that again. So, my reasoning was that the hardware part of the equation is working, it must be software that is the issue. I turned off the grill and unplugged it for a few minutes.
Attempt number three, plugged it in, turned on the grill, set for 350 hit start. Success, restarting the grill after uploading software for the first time may have been needed. Silly me, whenever updating a computer I usually reboot the system. I'm no genius but why didn't I think of that earlier? LOL
I did the final burn in at 450 for 40 minutes without any problems. Shut it down, did a quick cleaning before starting my first cook.
First cook went great. SmokeFire was rock steady temp wise. When I connected to the grill with the app it said there was another update in progress but I could continue cooking. Pictures included for your amusement.
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