I have a LG Black Label 800 grill. I replaced the controller because it wouldn’t hold set temperatures. Once the new one was in, it wouldn’t connect to Bluetooth or WiFi. I called support and found they don’t support the previous app, SmokeIT, so I installed this one. It required updating the grill firmware, which wouldn’t work unless I stood next to the grill. I did that and started testing. The smoker did heat to my set temperature of 200° and seems to maintain it. I ran into trouble with the probes. There are two probe sockets labeled 1 and 2. Using socket (probe) 1, I could see the probe’s temperature but couldn’t enter a set point. It showed the temp but the notification temperature was zero. I then used socket 2 with the same probe, and I could set a desired temperature. Unfortunately, the app allowed the temperature to rise above the probe setting with no notifications or alerts. Both probe sockets simply showed temperatures rising above the set limit—if you are watching. The previous app both made an alert sound and displayed a notification above whatever screen was active when either probe came to temperature. So if I need to depend on the app to tell me when food is done, it won’t. Finally, there are icons on the app screen that would seem to show smoker activity, such as when the auger, igniter or fan was active, but they don’t do anything. I expected the screen to light them since the icons are there, but they’re inactive. Bottom line, this app lets you set cooking temperature and monitor meat temperatures, but it won’t alert you that you need to take action to avoid overcooking. There were cooking stages settings on the old app that this one is missing. The Bluetooth and WiFi connection is difficult. It’s mostly a manual cooker.

App is working for my new LG800BL grill. Setup took time on iOS - app would take 2 minutes to figure out if there was an internet connection (wait a long time if you see the flame icon!). Once I eventually waited through several of the steps I arrived at the “updating your grill” screen. Once update of grill was completed app was no longer slow. Bottom line it works. If you are a previous user still having trouble I recommend making sure VPN is off, recheck. If you still have issues try deleting app, restarting phone, restarting router, unplugging grill and plug back in, then proceed as if first time setup.

Needs:* Faster startup to grill with cook in progress. If I switch away it often reenters from the smoke animation and advertisements (probably because the app crashed in the background)* Grill should remember temperatures over time and app should be able to display a chart of this cook with the captured temps (relative to uptime)* Probe temp target Set has a bugs* Remotely turning off grill shouldn’t stop reporting chamber/probe temps - the grill still has power and can still make/report the readings.

Not sure if I just got lucky or not but I had tried 100x to update the grill and it always failed to do so, finally I set some parameters for a recipe (just basic ones to keep it going) then right after I did that I tried to update the grill again with the app and it worked! I rated it 3 stars because I finally got it working, the app itself is pretty basic, wish there were some more features, hope for everyone else that’s had issues that this may help