butts for church and watch live smoke webpage.....

Theboz1419 · Oct 19, 2013

http://uds.servebeer.com live smoke

Tomorrow, at my church they are having a cookout and they asked if I could smoke something. Well pork butts it is.

The above link is my heatermeter controller. I had some minor problems at the beginning, all looks ok now. Also im using some new maverick et-732 probes for the butts, not sure I like the probes, not as good as my et-72/73 probes(pit temp and the ambient temp). They did read 211 in boiling water though.

14 pounds, not much but someone else is also doing some pulled pork also

All rubbed up

Dadeo719 · Oct 19, 2013

Too cool!! thanks for completely wasting my Saturday as I sit here and watch this now.....

grantw · Oct 19, 2013

that gadget is wicked!! id love a controller like that, cant wait for updates

Theboz1419 · Oct 19, 2013

Easy to make. I have it setup to send Emails or SMS on alarms. The Fluctuations in set point are me screwing around on the dam thing lol.

Heatermeter Forums

Diesel Dave · Oct 19, 2013

It's not wasting my afternoon, but I can't help but to keep checkin on it for ya.
Looks like it's doing real fine.

Dadeo719 · Oct 19, 2013

Can we get a pic of the setup?

Dadeo719 · Oct 19, 2013

And yeah I'm still setting here watching lol

longwayfromhome · Oct 19, 2013

So, I am down in New Zealand and I know your lid is closed and the blower is running at 18%... maybe these conspiracy theorists are onto something after all!

EmilPatrick · Oct 19, 2013

That's awesome, thanks for the live link. I actually just stumbled onto the Heatmeter software and forum post a few weeks ago and started ordering parts to build one this week.

How difficult was it for you to build and get running? It seems pretty straight forward from all the posts I've read.

sliding_billy · Oct 19, 2013

Love the live link.

rifraf · Oct 19, 2013

Theboz1419 said:
The above link is my heatermeter controller.

I made one of those awesome ATC (automatic temperature controller) I love it. It is so versatile. Plus it has web capabilities and at about $120 price tag with a big blower it is at a fraction of the cost of some of its competitors.

Theboz1419 · Oct 19, 2013

EmilPatrick said:
That's awesome, thanks for the live link. I actually just stumbled onto the Heatmeter software and forum post a few weeks ago and started ordering parts to build one this week.

How difficult was it for you to build and get running? It seems pretty straight forward from all the posts I've read.

Well I have had the heatermeter since version 1 and it was much much harder then it is now. Before there was no circuit boards and Raspberry PI, we used Linksys router and wires to connect on the components. The programming was just as bad. took me 6+ months to get one working lol.

But, now the heatermeter can be made by anybody fairly easy, The soldering is the hardest part. The circuit boards have a guide to tell you what goes where on it, and they are numbered, for instance R1 would be resister 1 and if you look at the list of components R1 would be a 1k resister(3 of them) C2 would be a .1u capacitor.

As long as you keep the resisters , caps ect.... in their bags that tell you what they are, you really don't even need to know what they are, if that makes sense. Pictures of the assembly

The programming is as easy as downloading the needed software on your computer as long as you have a SD card slot available, all you have to do install it to the SD card and that it.

Put the Sd card into the RasPI and done, you have yourself a Heatermeter. Byran is constantly updating the software.

And for those that have kids and if they would like to build something, this would be an awesome project for them to learn on.

Theboz1419 · Oct 20, 2013

Almost finished, at 6am checked for tenderness and the smell was intoxicating. Oh, I love the smell of early morning Q

http://uds.servebeer.com live smoke

scp · Oct 20, 2013

Looks like my 17 y/o computer geek just got a project

jbuntingsr · Oct 20, 2013

That is cool

EmilPatrick · Oct 20, 2013

Theboz1419 said:
Well I have had the heatermeter since version 1 and it was much much harder then it is now. Before there was no circuit boards and Raspberry PI, we used Linksys router and wires to connect on the components. The programming was just as bad. took me 6+ months to get one working lol.

But, now the heatermeter can be made by anybody fairly easy, The soldering is the hardest part. The circuit boards have a guide to tell you what goes where on it, and they are numbered, for instance R1 would be resister 1 and if you look at the list of components R1 would be a 1k resister(3 of them) C2 would be a .1u capacitor.

As long as you keep the resisters , caps ect.... in their bags that tell you what they are, you really don't even need to know what they are, if that makes sense. Pictures of the assembly

The programming is as easy as downloading the needed software on your computer as long as you have a SD card slot available, all you have to do install it to the SD card and that it.

Put the Sd card into the RasPI and done, you have yourself a Heatermeter. Byran is constantly updating the software.

And for those that have kids and if they would like to build something, this would be an awesome project for them to learn on.

Thanks for the reply, you helped convince me that this will definitely be something I can take on myself. It's been quite a while since I've done any serious soldering, but I think I can get the hang of again.

What are you using as a case if any? I've seen several people using the 3D printed models, just curious if there's anything else out there.

Theboz1419 · Oct 20, 2013

Just took them off the smoker, wrapping them in and putting them in a cooler for a few hours, 1130am lunch at the church. I made some fat johnny's bastardized piedmont sauce and a sweet mustard sauce, along with some homemade slaw, mmmmmmm can't wait

Nice Bark

Theboz1419 · Oct 20, 2013

EmilPatrick said:
Thanks for the reply, you helped convince me that this will definitely be something I can take on myself. It's been quite a while since I've done any serious soldering, but I think I can get the hang of again.

What are you using as a case if any? I've seen several people using the 3D printed models, just curious if there's anything else out there.

Case?ummmm lol a ziplock bag. it works and it keeps the rain out. It rained all day yesterday, it did not have any problems

Yeah the soldering is not really that hard, just use lots of resin flux

Theboz1419 · Oct 20, 2013

This what I used on my first Heatermeter, granted that had both a heatermeter and a Linksys router in it. I am thinking about trying the 3d printed cases, but the ziplock bag works just fine.

EmilPatrick · Oct 20, 2013

Theboz1419 said:
This what I used on my first Heatermeter, granted that had both a heatermeter and a Linksys router in it. I am thinking about trying the 3d printed cases, but the ziplock bag works just fine.

That's quite the case on the the first case! I'll probably start out with a ziploc or rubbermaid container, but I'd like to get a more permanent case for use at comps and tail gates.

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