iBBQ be a Pro

About

This is a way to trend and track your grill/smoker cooks. It reads the temperatures from an Inkbird bluetooth temp probe and displays it on a chart. There is a text field where you can enter a comment like "Bumped top vent open 0.5", and it gets a timestmap and saves in a file.

How it works

Hardware

Inkbird IBT-2X is a bluetooth temperature module with two thermocouples. The thermocouples are placed inside the meat and the Inkbird module displays the temperature.

This setup uses a raspberry pi to communicate with the Inkbird module over Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE).

The Raspberry Pi has software running which makes it available over MQTT and via a Node Red web interface.

Software

Data Aquisition and Publishing

https://github.com/lukeryannetnz/go-ibbq This software written in GO makes the BLE connection, reads the temperatures and battery level, and publishs the values to console and MQTT. Battery level is not accurate.

Display and Charting

Node-red is used to display this informaiton and provide the charts. It is the Node-Red configuratino that this repo is for.