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Pellet Fan Performance Testing & Product Tests => Product Tests => Topic started by: Bentley on January 26, 2018, 10:52:24 AM

Title: Tappecue V.2 Product Review
Post by: Bentley on January 26, 2018, 10:52:24 AM
Tappecue Ultimate Wi-Fi BBQ Thermometer

MSRP $xxx.xx + Shipping

Pros: TBD


Cons: TBD


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Title: Re: Tappecue V.2 Product Review
Post by: Bentley on January 26, 2018, 11:48:42 PM
So we get the Tappecue out of the box and we set up the Account.  We go to Tappecue.com and we download the Widows Setup. Making sure we...

*Important: Please plug in a probe
before usb power before using the
Windows or MAC setup program
or applying firmware updates!

And if you are like me, you just have it as an Icon on your Desktop Screen.

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Title: Re: Tappecue V.2 Product Review
Post by: Bentley on January 26, 2018, 11:53:12 PM
We then set up our account with a username and password.

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Title: Re: Tappecue V.2 Product Review
Post by: Bentley on January 26, 2018, 11:58:29 PM
After establishing account we hook up to our network.  We enter our account information.

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Then we Register our New Tappecue.

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We then do our Wi-Fi set up, you will need the info on your wireless system for this.

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Title: Re: Tappecue V.2 Product Review
Post by: Bentley on January 27, 2018, 12:00:30 AM
After it is set up, it is just a matter of connecting one to four probes and using the Tappecue on either your Smartphone, tablet or computer!  We will deleve into that over the next couple of days!
Title: Re: Tappecue V.2 Product Review
Post by: Bentley on January 28, 2018, 02:08:01 PM
One of the Pros for me is the ability to track from your Desktop or Laptop too.  I realize I am probably in a very small minority, but I don't have a Smartphone and I do not use tablets very much.  I like being able to pull it up on my laptop and see both temperatures and graph!

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Title: Re: Tappecue V.2 Product Review
Post by: sleebus.jones on January 29, 2018, 08:15:38 AM
This is SO timely!  I was looking at getting one just the other day.  Looking forward to the rest of the review.
Title: Re: Tappecue V.2 Product Review
Post by: Bentley on January 29, 2018, 04:15:14 PM
And maybe your post is timely for me too.  I am not a technical person, and therefore am struggling with how to show this unit.  Is there anything I can "show" you that you would like.  I realize we want to and be as objective and unbiased as possible, but it seems at times like this, I short change the manufacture...

This is SO timely!  I was looking at getting one just the other day.  Looking forward to the rest of the review.
Title: Re: Tappecue V.2 Product Review
Post by: Bar-B-Lew on January 29, 2018, 04:17:15 PM
Might be a good idea for those that have a Tappacue to send you a PM of their pros and cons of the unit for you to assess what would be fair in a product review after you test out their pros and cons.
Title: Re: Tappecue V.2 Product Review
Post by: Bentley on January 29, 2018, 04:19:41 PM
Outstanding! 
Title: Re: Tappecue V.2 Product Review
Post by: sleebus.jones on January 30, 2018, 08:33:31 AM
Is there anything I can "show" you that you would like.

Hm.  Lemme read through the manual and see if there's anything I'd like shown.  Being able to see a live graph while cooking is a Big Thing for me, so that's one question answered.
Title: Re: Tappecue V.2 Product Review
Post by: Bar-B-Lew on January 30, 2018, 08:39:25 AM
Can you change the X and Y axis labels (i.e. instead of in 10 degree increments could you make them 5, instead of the bottom starting at 0 degrees could it be 150 degrees, etc)?
Title: Re: Tappecue V.2 Product Review
Post by: Bentley on January 30, 2018, 01:21:50 PM
I need to read the manual too...but that one is probably one I'm going to ask the Manufacture to com on and answer!
Title: Re: Tappecue V.2 Product Review
Post by: pmillen on January 30, 2018, 03:26:22 PM
Hm.  Lemme read through the manual and see if there's anything I'd like shown.  Being able to see a live graph while cooking is a Big Thing for me, so that's one question answered.

Is that the case?  I didn't think Tappecue provided real time graphing.  I thought that, at the end of the cook, users downloaded the information into a spreadsheet and produced the graph.
Title: Re: Tappecue V.2 Product Review
Post by: pmillen on January 30, 2018, 03:28:03 PM
Can you adjust the scale on the Y axis?
Title: Re: Tappecue V.2 Product Review
Post by: Bentley on January 30, 2018, 04:29:21 PM
Yes, you can.  There is real time graphing!

A few post above I posted this graph, it was taken off my Laptop as the sous vide cook was going on.  You can also have the data sent to you ate the end of the cook and print that graph also!  This was from the tappecue.net site.

Thanks for the questions guys!


Is that the case?  I didn't think Tappecue provided real time graphing.  I thought that, at the end of the cook, users downloaded the information into a spreadsheet and produced the graph.

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Title: Re: Tappecue V.2 Product Review
Post by: Bentley on January 30, 2018, 05:05:40 PM
This Product Review is on Hold and will resume in the future.  All I can say right now.