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First annoyance: still haven’t gotten WiFi connected. I have a strong signal, and can connect to the grill’s WiFi but the setup process won’t connect to my WiFi. Best guess is I need to turn the grill around so all that metal is not between the grills WiFi and my Access point.
As a computer guy, I get frustrated when consumer goods attempt to “make it easy” by trying too hard to hide the details so you have nothing to go on and can’t easily connect without the “consumer-friendly” gui. Is it really too much to ask for an error message or verbose output?
But I do have timers so this round is the old fashioned way
I don't think they can connect to 5ghz networks so that might be the issue. Also try rebooting your phone / router to start fresh and it might work.
I just had to turn the grill around, and WiFi connected easily. That’ll do for now, but I’ll need to figure out a better location now that the grill is facing the wrong direction.
I would have thought that when you add WiFi to a metal product that you find a way to make it not block itself.
Yeah, I do have 2.4 GHz for smart home stuff. I know that’s working. But rebooting might be a good idea.
I don’t use the usually home private IP range but I do use a range reserved for corporate private networks, so hopefully that’s not it. It ought to use whatever my dhcp tells it to, but you never know