Does anyone know if any of the BBQ Guru folks hang out around here? I'd love to know how receptive they are to feature requests for future releases (or if they even have future software updates planned).
Some of the things that I think could be added with nearly trivial effort, but would yield big advantages for application developers:
Other suggestions or ideas?
- Add an additional status document/page in JSONP format as palmtreerfb mentions. This will all cross-domain ajax requests to work, so there is much that can be done in a web page (no "app" required).
- Add the cook, food1, food2, food3 setpoints to the status output. Currently they only exist in the main status page, making them inconvenient to obtain.
- Add a "fan override" Boolean and possibly a "fan override percent" integer post variables. This could allow an external app to implement completely custom cook logic.
I am not sure if the BBQ Guru folks hang out here or not - I am fairly new myself. I like your enhancement ideas. I was thinking the same thing about the set points last night when I was working on my app - and the fan override would be a good idea - I just wonder how flexible the hardware is to add new features?? :-D
:mrgreen: I did the same thing a couple hours ago :mrgreen:@fatdoggie - I sent an email to the BBQ Guru folks and linked this thread. I think there is a lot opportunity for them to work with us and if third party apps start hitting the street - it could mean more sales for them. I'll let you know what they say.
First prototype :razz:
Excellent work there , enough to make me choose to buy the wifi guru , I figured the data was available to capture when I first saw the new guru, and I'm glad to see the collection and graphing is doable in winform which lends credence to belief that it's doable for all platforms. Given the time and effort. I sure hope someone at guru is paying attention to this effort here. This is a product that would benefit greatly with some good apps.
As soon as I can get mine from 5-0 I'd love to do any beta testing that might be needed.
Downey eh, I'm here in Buena Park neighbor :thumb:
Had some time today to add a couple more features.