If I made a thermometer that I could view wirelessly, I would only make an offline option. I am not going to try to design an app and maintain a server that will forever eat my money for a thermometer.
That’s shortsighted. First, you make the thermometer that depends on your app and server that eats money. Then, when you have enough users that the server costs are significant, you hold all the thermometer’s for ransom with a new subscription service that more than covers the cost of the server, introduce ads into the app, and sell user data under new terms that users are forced to agree to in order to continue using their thermometers. If you can figure out a way to shoehorn an “AI” in there, do that too for an additional subscription and make sure very sure that the people not paying more for the AI know that they could pay more to have AI.
I really want one that integrates with Home Assistant. The biggest issue I have is knowing when my grill is running cold. The thermometer I have now only tracks current temperature and not throughout the cook.
If I made a thermometer that I could view wirelessly, I would only make an offline option. I am not going to try to design an app and maintain a server that will forever eat my money for a thermometer.
That’s shortsighted. First, you make the thermometer that depends on your app and server that eats money. Then, when you have enough users that the server costs are significant, you hold all the thermometer’s for ransom with a new subscription service that more than covers the cost of the server, introduce ads into the app, and sell user data under new terms that users are forced to agree to in order to continue using their thermometers. If you can figure out a way to shoehorn an “AI” in there, do that too for an additional subscription and make sure very sure that the people not paying more for the AI know that they could pay more to have AI.
I really want one that integrates with Home Assistant. The biggest issue I have is knowing when my grill is running cold. The thermometer I have now only tracks current temperature and not throughout the cook.