recteq 4+

This thing is phenomenal. Gives me full control to monitor my grill from anywhere. I’ve been using it for about six months and really can’t say enough good things. The ONLY negative is that they just removed the ability to turn on the grill remotely. This was one of my most favorite features as I could turn on the grill (which is outside, on a lower level, away from the house as it should be) while I started my food prep inside. I am hoping that they will consider making this a setting option for each person as opposed to removing the capability from everybody. Pretty please!

Recently update removed features, remote turn on was a primary factor for using the app, now gone under “industry standard language”, there is no industry standard, you are concerned about lawsuits. We are adults, with remote entry on the house, garage, remotely starting cars and remotely logging into banks safely for decades. A better way would be to require two factor authorization for remote turn on if recteq is so nervous about lawsuits.

I have had the grill for quite a while and have used the app for all cooks. Generally the data provided is limited to the basic graphic. Never any zooming in on temperature axis of the graph or rescaling, no custom colors, no show/hide temperatures or probes. No drag on the graph for an intersection just an inaccurate tap. Limited history kept, last update erased all of my historical cooks and notes. The current setup decoupled the cook graph from the cook and didn’t say anything so I didn’t have my cook data on my last cook. No secondary data, time to preheat, time to set temp, fluctuation range. If your geeky about grills and cooks you want your data and want to have options on how it’s displayed.

Totally agree with the rest of the mad customers here… dev team at this company obviously do not know UI design and they don’t know how to deal with lawyers who are telling them this feature could get the company sued… you build into the advanced function an override that allows you to turn on the grill, and then you have a popup that says use at your own risk. Its simple, and a consumer would have to manually do this and receive that warning- releases you of fault. Now, if you did this because the grill and the wireless control are from China, and you are concerned that somebody could breach your network and turn on our grills in the middle of the night, well that may be of a different story…. Still, you can build in the controls to stop this, but not ruin the one feature that keeps me from buying the other guys product…