Web Page Features

Although the SMOBOT controller can be used as a standalone unit, once you do connect it to a WiFi network, you will then be able to use a web browser to remotely monitor and control your SMOBOT. (You can also use the SMOBOT App, but that is described on the next page.) In order to use the web page and App interfaces, you must first register your controller at mysmobot.smobot.com. (Note that the SMOBOT Quick Start Guide directs you to mysmobot.smobot.com. You can also use www.mysmobot.com. The two addresses are equivalent.) Once you have done this, you'll be able to:

• Monitor and control your SMOBOT controller
• View a graph of your current cook
• View, name, take notes on, and export archived cooks
• Update the firmware on your SMOBOT controller
• Get support for your SMOBOT controller

Enter the requested information and click on the Register button.

The next screen telling you that you have an email waiting for you will appear.

Open the email and click on the link to verify your registration:

Now you are taken to the screen where you can enter your SMOBOT controller's ID. Enter the ID and click on the "Register" button.

You are now registered and taken to the SMOBOT Dashboard:

Across the top of the SMOBOT Dashboard you can see your pit setpoint, the temperature of each of the probes and the current damper setting. Below that you have a graph of all the temperatures. Below the graph, you can click on a link to name your cook for future reference, click on another link to add notes to your cook, and you can terminate the current cook and start a new cook by clicking on the "New Cook" link.

Clicking on the "Archive" link at the top will take you a page showing you your previous cook:

Clicking on the "Update" link at the top will take you to a page showing you your SMOBOT's current controller firmware level and telling you if your firmware is up to date or not. If your controller's firmware is downlevel, a button will be present that allows you to initiate download of the current level. (Firmware is not automatically updated, as SMOBOT has received many complaints about the firmware updating when the user didn't wish it. So be sure to check your firmware level every once in a while.)

If you do choose to update your firmware, when you click on the "Update" button, you will see the following screen display on your controller:

The screen will go blank for about a second, and then return to the "UPDATING..." screen for a few more seconds. The screen will then shut off during the update (in our case, about 1 minute and 15 seconds), and then the controller will reboot and you are back in business.

Clicking on the "Support" link at the top will give you a dropdown with links to open a trouble ticket with SMOBOT support, access their Knowledgebase and order replacement temperature probes.

Next, notice the small icon in the upper left corner of the "SETPOINT" box. Clicking on that icon will open a small window allowing you to change your controller's pit setpoint.

Finally, notice the small images of a bell in the boxes displaying each of the temperature readings. Clicking on each of these bells will open a small window allowing you to set alarms for each probe.

If you do enable an alarm for a food probe, the bell will turn green and the parameters for the alarm will be shown just below the image of the bell. If you enable an alarm for the pit probe, the bell will initially turn yellow. When the pit temperature rises to the point that it is within the range of temperatures you have specified for the pit alarm, the bell will turn green also. The range for the pit probe alarm will be shown below the bell:

If an alarm does go off, this is what it looks like: