!ping
Fish in the area

!ping
Fish on hook
Tap REEL to begin reeling

!ping
Fish escaped
Tap CAST to try again

It can be both, but at least if i don't catch any fish I'll catch a good buzz

Seems like we shouldn't encourage people to live in locations where being outside for 6 months of the year is hazardous

I have a non digital charcoal kettle, and I found good options for blowers and temp control in China.

It's a simple fitting that I only use doing very long cooks. Saves all the mucking around with the official stuff

Considering wiring up something with an arduino and appifying my meat without any proprietary tech.

I had the same thought and went with a HeaterMeter, although I haven't finished building it yet.

That sounds like the plot to an American Dad episode.

Expensive options: thermoworks smoke-x

1-200 depending on 2 or 4 channel version, legally can only be used in the us and Canada because they use a custom rf protocol. As a result the range is 1.24 miles. Thermoworks is pricey shit but it lasts long, can be calibrated, and generally is one of the most accurate cooking thermometers you can buy

(albeit much much much more expensive than a $10-30 k type thermocouple and a used reader for $50 that is way more precise and usually will do data logging) also granted for most people a $20-40 thermometer would be fine with like 300-500ft range

My issue with “smart” anything is not the inherent concept, it’s the execution 99% of the time. I have plenty of smart stuff in my house but it’s almost never convergence devices. I’ve learned that these types of devices are more than anything designed to be disposable trash. Designed as cheap as possible, cut as many corners, introduce as many security holes as possible, etc. we have 0 consumer rights so even if it’s strong they’ll change the tos after the fact when their profits fall and they need to make the line go up.

So it comes to this. I’m not opposed to “smart” devices. They just have to occur in a dumb, roundabout way. They have to work without being connected to the internet, or in some rare cases by being bridged to the internet via home assistant from an isolated vlan. If I want a smoker I can monitor on the fly I will look at something like that thermometer paired with a standard steel smoker that will last decades. If I need to adjust it remotely I will look at why I need this option first: is it realistic that I would just adjust it without checking the contents? If I would then check open source and if nothing exists make it. It sucks but this where our garbage profit driven society led us, to shitty products that fill landfills and waste resources

My parents old farmer house had a smoke cabinet (wood chips heating). You put meat in, let it smoke and take smoked meat out, done. Though it makes a mess.

My point is, what do you need to monitor that for?

I see it this way: If there are enough dumbasses willing to pay, go for it. I choose not to participate. OTOH, idiots paying subscriptions can hurt us all through enshittification.

On Nextdoor.com I brought it up that Trump's admin was trashing NOAA and the NWS, which we literally live and die by in Florida. One woman was quite proud to pay $15 for her Accuweather app. "And where do you think they get their data?"