Tiny wrote:Currently it is local based on you logging on to the wifi of the unit, but there is talk of the "control from office2" option
Chris__M wrote:Tiny wrote:Currently it is local based on you logging on to the wifi of the unit, but there is talk of the "control from office2" option
If the WiFi of the JB and DB are similar to the DC, then the default WiFi is local to the unit, as you say, but there is already the additional availability of connection over your local network. The only requirement is that your tablet phone is connecting to a WiFi point with the same name as the WiFi point that the grill is connected to.
If this sounds confusing, there are currently 3 ways to use it.
1) Your phone/tablet connects to the grill itself as an AP. So while connected, you have no connection to the outside world at all.
2) You set your grill to connect to a WiFi point within range; your phone/tablet connects to the same WiFi point.
3) You set your grill to connect to a WiFi point within range; your phone/tablet connects to a different WiFi point on the same network, provided both WiFi points have the same SSID.
I use (3) all the time, which allows me to monitor a grill at the end of my garden, from my home office, in the front of my house.
Folk have managed other tricks using port forwarding or VPN and such to gain access from further afield, but as I understand it, the above are the 3 official options at present.
There is a plan for the grill to log onto a GMG server, and for you to connect via that from anywhere, but as far as I know, that isn't being implemented yet. Indeed, it is a long time since I have even heard about that, so it may be off the cards.
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