/igrill

Hacking the iGrill mini

Primary LanguagePythonMIT LicenseMIT

iGrill

Monitor your iGrill_v2 (with a Raspberry Pi 1/2/3) - and an forward it to an mqtt-server

What do you need

Hardware

  • iGrill2 Device (and at least one probe) - Weber Homepage - DE
  • A bluetooth enabled computer - preferable a raspberry pi
  • A mqtt server as message receiver

Software

Installation

  1. clone this repo
  2. install required modules
  3. change the ADDRESS to the address of your iGrill - to find it out just run hcitool lescan
  4. start application python monitor_igrill_v2.py
  5. enjoy

systemd startup-script

Place this file into the proper folder - for instance: /lib/systemd/system/igrill.service

[Unit]
Description=igrill MQTT service
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
Restart=always
RestartSec=2
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python /opt/igrill/monitor_igrill_v2.py

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Run systemctl daemon-reload && systemctl enable igrill && systemctl start igrill

Next time you reboot, the iGrill service will connect and reconnect if something goes wrong...