You're a very sick man, Chuck....since I now own 9600 watts of his subwoofers (four SubMersive HP's)...
I am indeed! BBQ man during the night, and A/V guy during the day .Mark,
Thanks for the invite from your forum... Hey site founder Amirm wouldn't happen to be the same amir behind the stoker log? If so wow small world. I use the stokerlog to track and control my other hobby addiction.. smoking mighty fine BBQ.
Mark,
Thanks for the invite from your forum... Hey site founder Amirm wouldn't happen to be the same amir behind the stoker log? If so wow small world. I use the stokerlog to track and control my other hobby addiction.. smoking mighty fine BBQ.
I'll let Amir take it from there.... I could never steal his thunder on that little gem.......
Geez I hope I didn't out him from living a secret life on this one
I will write up an article on the whole thing once I have more time. Here is a quick summary. Stokerlog is a control program for a device aptly called "stoker." Stoker is an automatic temperature controller for your barbecue or smoker. It has a temperature sensor and a fan. You set the temp, and it controls the amount of air your barbecue or smoker gets and hence the temperature. This is important because in proper smoking where you cook the meat from 5 to 20+ hours, you don't want to sit around the thing constantly worrying about the temperature and if the fire has gone out. Connecting this to Mark's forum , it is the same thing as a "servo control in a sub!"I'll bite
What's a stoker log. Where I come from that could mean a few different things
I will write up an article on the whole thing once I have more time. Here is a quick summary. Stokerlog is a control program for a device aptly called "stoker." Stoker is an automatic temperature controller for your barbecue or smoker. It has a temperature sensor and a fan. You set the temp, and it controls the amount of air your barbecue or smoker gets and hence the temperature. This is important because in proper smoking where you cook the meat from 5 to 20+ hours, you don't want to sit around the thing constantly worrying about the temperature and if the fire has gone out. Connecting this to Mark's forum , it is the same thing as a "servo control in a sub!"
My program, stokerlog, talks to above device and lets you manage it from your PC inside your house. You can see the entire cook including multiple food probes. You can get reports on your phone. You can get alarms to wake you up if the fire dies in the middle of the night, etc. Here is picture of it:
Many enthusiasts use it including a number of restaurants. The program has been a labor of love and started with me writing what I thought would be 10 lines of code to talk to the box. Now it is some 10,000 to 20,000 lines of code and counting! Next project is to move some of the functionality to a phone (e.g. Android).
Again more later. And apologies to Mark for side venture into food world .
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