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Chef iQ

The Chef iQ integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] lets you read the temperatures from Chef iQ wireless cooking probes directly over Bluetooth Low Energy. No cloud account, base station, or hub is required: the probe broadcasts its readings and Home Assistant listens passively.

Supported devices

The following Chef iQ wireless probes are supported:

  • Chef iQ Smart Wireless Meat Thermometer (CQ60)
  • Chef iQ Smart Wireless Meat Thermometer (CQ50)

The iQ Sense base station broadcasts under the same Bluetooth identifier, but it is a Wi-Fi appliance rather than a passive probe and is not supported by this integration.

Prerequisites

This integration requires a working Bluetooth setup, either a local Bluetooth adapter or an ESPHome Bluetooth proxy. The probe is battery-powered and only broadcasts while it is awake, so make sure it is awake (for example, by taking it off its charging dock) before adding it.

Configuration

To add the Chef iQ device to your Home Assistant instance, use this My button:

Manual configuration steps

If the above My button doesn’t work, you can also perform the following steps manually:

Supported functionality

The Chef iQ integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] provides the following entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or function in Home Assistant. Entities are used to monitor physical properties or to control other entities. An entity is usually part of a device or a service. [Learn more].

Sensors

A probe exposes the following sensors:

  • Food temperature: the food (internal) temperature at the probe tip.
  • Ambient temperature: the ambient (cooking environment) temperature.
  • Probe tip 1 through 4 temperatures: the temperatures measured along the probe shaft (disabled by default).
  • Battery: the probe battery percentage.
  • SoC temperature: the temperature of the probe’s system-on-chip (SoC), its internal electronics (diagnostic, disabled by default).
  • Signal strength: the Bluetooth signal strength (diagnostic, disabled by default).

The battery level and SoC temperature are sent in a separate Bluetooth advertisement from the cooking temperatures (food, ambient, and probe tip), so they may appear a few seconds later after setup.

Known limitations

The integration is passive and read-only. It reports the probe’s broadcast readings, but cannot start cooks, set target temperatures, or change probe settings. Those features require the Chef iQ app.

Troubleshooting

If the device is not discovered, try the following:

  1. Make sure that the probe is awake and broadcasting (take it off its dock).
  2. Make sure your Bluetooth adapter or proxy is in range of the probe.
  3. Make sure the Bluetooth integration is set up and working.

Removing the integration

This integration follows standard integration removal. No extra steps are required.

To remove an integration instance from Home Assistant

  1. Go to Settings > Devices & services and select the integration card.
  2. From the list of devices, select the integration instance you want to remove.
  3. Next to the entry, select the three dots menu. Then, select Delete.