Engbird

The app does not install into your system notifications. So the only way you can get an alert is if the app is physically opened and you’re viewing data. Which makes the alert pointless. I have many other apps that send me alerts to my Lock Screen with no issues because they install to the system notifications settings tab. It’s been 8 months since the last update. Product is going back because of junk app.

Software still doesn’t work!!! I contacted this company a couple of times to express my frustration with the fact that the device does not connect to my iPhone. They said they were making changes for a fix. One year later and it’s still not fixed so the two inkbird Bluetooth pool thermometers that I purchased are useless! Don’t waste your time purchasing an inkbird pool thermometer!!!

close to useless. Use InkBird Pro instead. Also not finding all my sensors. This app shows 5, pro app shows my 6 units it should see.

I use this app daily to collect data from multiple devices. I was disappointed when the app updated this week. The “day” data page says no data is present even when it is. You can see the data is there by selecting week, then day. The csv output has been reformatted. Date and time are now two fields instead of one. This required a rewrite of the program into which I feed the temperature data. The column headers in the new version do not match the column contents. The version info says this update was for bug fixes. I had not encountered any bugs in the previous version, but this version is full of bugs. I hope a new bug fix is in the works.

The app doesn’t use the notifications API so you will not get banners, sounds, or badges when the temperature goes outside your set range. You have to open the app to get an alert. At which point you could just read the temperature. Since I wanted to know if a cooler in a trailer behind the car had become unplugged this wouldn’t tell me unless I looked. So instead of stopping to physically check the cooler now I could open the app. An improvement but not the one I expected. It still required me to remember to check frequently check. BONUS. The app plays the sound of a car horn honking if you open it in an alert state. If you are connected via CarPlay you’ll think your car is honking.

I own a few Inkbird controls and I was excited to try another product with app support. Like the controls, the hardware is solid, the app, however, is underdeveloped. The UI is incredibly basic. It looks and feels like it was developed for a child - assuming the demographic for the device I purchased, though, is science/engineering. It also doesn’t offer much. No IFFF support. You can see a basic trend chart, but you can’t export it. The app freezes and doesn’t refresh the temp without closing/reopening. Also doesn’t have the ability to bring in things like the local temp to compare against the device temp. In 2022, it would be well worth the investment to developers a core app that pairs with all the Inkbird products. That would be a huge selling point. I noticed another Inkbird app in the store, but it also looks underdeveloped and doesn’t support the product I purchased. At this stage in the game, the market really expects products to come with that level of support. Inkbird already does that hard part well - the hardware - they just need a solid dev team to build this out.

You have to be within a few feet of the thermometer, and even then it often doesn’t connect. What’s the point if I have to walk out the thermometer to get it to work?

I find the graph function totally useless. You need to scroll through many screens to see the recent readings. The good news is you can see the current reading on the Home Screen. I would like to see the current value on the Apple Watch

I used this to monitor my fridges and freezers. I need to be within ≈15 to get a reading, which is ok. There is a feature within the app to get notifications when the temp or humidity is outside of your specified range. However, this does NOT integrate with iOS. There are actually no notifications. This makes the product only useful for historical information, not avoiding problems with current & pushed information.

Not sure if some of the early sensors had issues but I have loved mine. Have been running it on multiple sensors for 18mo plus and never had a hiccup. Cheap alternative to the big $$$ sensors.