Low & slow, minus the babysitting.

PitPilot clips beside your smoker, watches temperature and humidity in real time, and mists your meat on schedule — while plugging straight into the probes you already own, wired or wireless.

It watches the fire. You take the credit.

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We're not building another walled garden.

Every big grilling brand wants you locked into their app, their probes, their subscription. PitPilot's whole point is the opposite: unify the grilling tech you already own into one simple, automated system — so the win goes to the person standing at the smoker, not to whichever company sold the most proprietary hardware. No cloud account required. No monthly fee. No pressure to rebuy probes you already own.

Works with probes you already own Zero subscriptions No cloud account required Lower cost than brand-locked systems Repeatable results, every cook Portable — clips onto any smoker

Interoperability first

Built for the gear already in your kit

PitPilot's mission is unifying grilling tech, not adding another proprietary probe to your drawer. Here's what plugs in and connects today.

New — wired channel

Wired meat probe input

A panel jack accepts any standard K-type thermocouple meat probe — the same connector style used across the replacement-probe market, not a proprietary plug. Same target-temp and alarm settings as the wireless channel.

Standard mini thermocouple connector (SMPW-K style)
Works alongside the wireless channel — monitor two different cuts at once
Auto-detects when a probe is plugged in

Wireless — auto-connect

Broadcast-style BLE probes

PitPilot passively reads temperature straight from the probe's Bluetooth signal — no pairing, no app, no account.

ThermoPro TP96x / TP97x family
Govee BLE meat thermometers
Other open-broadcast BLE probes

Probes that require their own app/account pairing (MEATER, ThermoWorks RFX, FireBoard Pulse) aren't auto-detectable yet — that's a bigger integration we're evaluating for a future release, and we'd rather say so than overpromise.

10-second overview

Dry meat is a choice. Make a different one.

It watches

Pit temp, meat humidity, and ambient conditions — tracked continuously, without opening the lid.

It mists

A food-safe pump fires on your schedule — every 30 minutes, hourly, or triggered by humidity.

It guards

Over-temp protection with your choice of response: spray, alarm, or both.

It remembers

Every cook logged — temps, misting, weather, weight — so your best brisket is repeatable, not a fluke.

Set it. Smoke it. Sleep.

Setup in under two minutes

Program on the touchscreen

Four taps, no app or account required to get started.

Monitor remotely

Check in from your phone over WiFi — built-in dashboard, no cloud middleman.

Replay your best cook

Pull up a saved cook program and run it again, exactly.

The 10-minute version

Full specs

Sensing
Grill/pit probe	K-type thermocouple, 0–1024°F
Meat probes	One wired (K-type jack) + one wireless (BLE broadcast) — simultaneously
Humidity	±3% RH accuracy
Weather	Live via Open-Meteo — free, no API key or account
Misting Engine
Pump	Food-safe DC diaphragm/peristaltic pump
Scheduling	Clock time, fixed interval, or quick-pick presets
Burst duration	1–300 seconds, adjustable in 1-second steps
Safety	Minimum-temp coal protection, manual override
Food Safety
Meat-type presets	Beef, chicken, turkey, pork — shows FDA minimum safe internal temp before a cook starts
Compute & Connectivity
Processor	ESP32-S3 dual-core
Display	2.8" touchscreen, 320×240, sunlight-readable
Connectivity	Built-in web dashboard (pitpilot.local) — no cloud account required
Power	Rechargeable battery, USB-C charging

Pick your kit

Two ways to start

PitPilot Core

Controller + touchscreen
K-type grill/pit probe
Pump kit + bottle cradle
Humidity sensing, live weather
Cook logging

Kickstarter early-bird price revealed to the list first

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PitPilot Core + Dual Probe

Everything in Core
Wireless BLE meat probe included
External wired K-type jack — plug in a probe you already own
Run both channels at once — two cuts, two targets
Doneness alerts + carryover-temp heads-up

Same early-bird pricing structure as Core

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Why we give a damn

"We didn't want to automate the craft. We wanted to automate the anxiety — and the busywork of fighting other people's proprietary gear."

PitPilot started with too many 2 a.m. wake-ups to check on a smoker. It grew into something bigger once we realized the real problem wasn't just misting — it was that every serious grilling gadget on the market wants to own your whole setup: their probe, their app, their subscription. We think the technology should serve the person at the smoker, not the other way around. So PitPilot talks to the probes you already bought, keeps everything running locally with no cloud requirement, and stays priced like a tool — not a walled-garden platform.

Three full rebuilds. 17,000+ lines of firmware. 26 hand-drawn UI screens. Obsessive attention to the specs, kept simple in your hands.

3full rebuilds

17,000+lines of firmware

26UI screens

0subscriptions, ever

Real-time build status

Here's exactly where PitPilot stands right now

No vague "coming soon." Here's the actual state of the actual hardware, updated as it changes — not a marketing timeline.

✓

Done

Firmware

Dual meat-probe monitoring, FDA safety warnings, and mist control — built and running on real hardware, not a concept sketch.

✓

Done

Wired probe design

Full pin-by-pin wiring confirmed against the actual board — every connector, every pin, verified.

In progress

Physical prototype

Final assembly of the working unit right now — the same one that'll be in every Kickstarter photo and video. Real hardware, not a render.

Kickstarter launch

Once the prototype's finalized and real manufacturing numbers are locked in. Join the list below to get notified the moment it's live.

Following along day-to-day? Follow the build on Facebook — real progress posts, not polish.

500 units. First list, first served.

Lowest early-bird pricing, build-log updates, and first access when the 500-unit production run opens. No spam — just smoke.

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