gpeden
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After much wailing and gnashing of teeth, I finally was able to get my grill connected to wifi via iOS app. I tried all the things suggested by this forum, interwebs, and various YouTubers, and finally had a breakthrough:
1. Remove VPN from iPhone. I stumbled upon this 'known issues' from https://www.traegergrills.com/status "If user has reconfigured VPN on mobile phone:... I removed the VPN from my phone. I think this was the main culprit even though I went ahead and did following things as well. What having a VPN on my phone has to do with the grill connecting to my wifi / AWS I have no idea, but as they say "If its stupid and it works, it's not stupid"
2. Dedicated 2.4 Ghz wifi network. tl;dr: I setup an old (but solid) Apple AirPort wifi hot spot that I was able to configure to have the 2.4 and the 5ghz SSIDs as different names so that the cheap/crappy wifi chip in the grill wouldn't get confused. I moved it as close to the grill as possible and was getting signal in the -30db to -50db range.
3. Put iphone in airplane mode
4. Forget all other Wifi networks on my iphone. I think the app switches back and forth from the grill wifi to my home network and back and would connect to the wrong thing? idk.
5. Used the QR code.
6. Finally worked.
The above took my 6+ hours of fiddling, cursing, and fist shaking.
Things that didn't work:
1. Use the 2.4gz of my internet provider wifi hub (too weak, to many walls, to far away)
2. Separate the 2.4gz ahd 5gz sides of my Orbi wifi mesh. Orbi seems to have removed the ability to do this.
Fortunately I am fairly tech savvy, and happened to have a spare Wifi hub lying around that could be setup dedicated as 2.4gz and could be located close enough the grill to work, and even then it was a huge pain in the butt.
-- g
1. Remove VPN from iPhone. I stumbled upon this 'known issues' from https://www.traegergrills.com/status "If user has reconfigured VPN on mobile phone:... I removed the VPN from my phone. I think this was the main culprit even though I went ahead and did following things as well. What having a VPN on my phone has to do with the grill connecting to my wifi / AWS I have no idea, but as they say "If its stupid and it works, it's not stupid"
2. Dedicated 2.4 Ghz wifi network. tl;dr: I setup an old (but solid) Apple AirPort wifi hot spot that I was able to configure to have the 2.4 and the 5ghz SSIDs as different names so that the cheap/crappy wifi chip in the grill wouldn't get confused. I moved it as close to the grill as possible and was getting signal in the -30db to -50db range.
3. Put iphone in airplane mode
4. Forget all other Wifi networks on my iphone. I think the app switches back and forth from the grill wifi to my home network and back and would connect to the wrong thing? idk.
5. Used the QR code.
6. Finally worked.
The above took my 6+ hours of fiddling, cursing, and fist shaking.
Things that didn't work:
1. Use the 2.4gz of my internet provider wifi hub (too weak, to many walls, to far away)
2. Separate the 2.4gz ahd 5gz sides of my Orbi wifi mesh. Orbi seems to have removed the ability to do this.
Fortunately I am fairly tech savvy, and happened to have a spare Wifi hub lying around that could be setup dedicated as 2.4gz and could be located close enough the grill to work, and even then it was a huge pain in the butt.
-- g
