Pit Boss Grills for Android

The new app sees to work fine, the one thing Ii see missing is the igniter and auger icons that let you know what is going on during operation. Would like to see those indicators added to the app as they were in the previous app.

I was excited to see an app update today from the SmokeIT to PitBoss App. Grill did a firmware update, I like the new app. Other than it forced me to make a new password (this is important later). Now Alexa tells me the grill is at 180 when it is smoking at 230, I do not believe it was connected at all. It had a very bad setup of telling me the last temp when it was powered off. So I think this is still reading the last value it read before the app and firmware were updated. I have disabled the skill and removed the grill and probes from the Alexa app. Then Enabled the app..... and the only password that will work to enable it is the original password. This tells me that their old app used a different authentication method than what the new app is using. That is fine, but not if the Alexa skill is still pointing to the old user repository. 5 min of testing should have proven this and so I am left to think this was known and they pushed it out early knowing this was broken. This was a MAIN reason I bought this grill, I wanted an app and the Alexa integration. I have 20 days to return the grill and will if this is not working by then. Not meant as a threat, just to point out it is important to me. Happy to update this when the Alexa integration is back.

As a new Pit Boss owner and a new reluctant pellet smoker user, having the app is a blessing. Having an app that doesn’t work is frustrating. The Smoke iT app seemed pretty functional. Clunky but functional. Having the graph-analytics to see the grill temps, probe temps over the course of a cook was a nice feature. Why would you guys not add all the good features of the old app to the new??? Also, 10° temp adjustments would be nice to have as well. Maybe change the “S” setting to 180° instead of the <160° range.

I wish I would have known that I can’t control my grill in 10° increments with this app like I could on the last app, SmokeIt. I wouldn’t have downloaded this one!

This new app doesn’t improve my grilling as promised it actually removes a bunch of functionality that the old “SMOKE IT” app had. I see no way to get the Graph-lytics or toggle on or off the smoke mode, I also no longer have control of the auger or anything else, at least I can still see and set the temperature… I think the worst part is it forced a grill update and the old app won’t connect now… I was really hoping for better not worse.