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# Using the Wired Ambient Probe

The Wired Ambient Probe is the thin stainless probe on a 1 m cable that ships with every V Forge Set. It measures the temperature of your cooking environment — the air around your meat — separately from the meat itself.

## What it does

The Stick in your meat tracks **internal temperature** with 5 sensors along its length. The Wired Ambient Probe tracks **ambient (pit/oven) temperature** independently. Together they give you a complete picture of what's happening on the cook without either measurement interfering with the other.

**With the Wired Ambient Probe plugged into the WiFi Hub, it supplies the ambient temperature for every cook on that Hub — including a V Prime Stick.** The grate-level reading takes over from a Stick's built-in ambient sensor, because a probe buried in cold meat reads the pit slower and lower than a sensor right at the grate. So whenever the wired probe is in, you're getting true grate-level pit temperature.

## Where to clip it

| Where                                                           | OK?                                               |
| --------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------- |
| At grate level, 6–12 inches from the meat                       | ✅ ideal                                           |
| Hanging from the grill grate (not touching meat or grate metal) | ✅                                                 |
| Wedged into the grate's mesh, away from direct flame            | ✅                                                 |
| Touching the meat                                               | ❌ — you'll measure the meat surface, not the air  |
| Directly over open flame                                        | ❌ — flames spike the reading and stress the probe |
| Pressed against a hot metal surface                             | ❌ — you'll measure the metal, not the air         |

A small grate clip is the easiest mounting solution; many BBQ supply shops sell them for a few dollars.

## How to plug it in

Find the small square port on one short end of your WiFi Hub. The connector on the Wired Ambient Probe seats into that port. There's no separate power switch — the Hub powers the probe, and ambient temperature appears in the MeatStick App as soon as the probe is plugged in.

## Temperature range and accuracy

| Range                              | Accuracy                              |
| ---------------------------------- | ------------------------------------- |
| **−4°F to 212°F (−20°C to 100°C)** | ±0.9°F (±0.5°C) — most accurate band  |
| 212°F to 392°F (100°C to 200°C)    | ±2.7°F (±1.5°C)                       |
| 392°F to 572°F (200°C to 300°C)    | ±4.5°F (±2.5°C)                       |
| Up to 716°F (380°C) sustained      | Probe tolerates this; accuracy widens |

For most BBQ/smoker cooks (225°F–325°F pit temp) the probe runs well within its accurate band.

## Cleaning and storage

See

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[Cleaning the Wired Ambient Probe](/v-forge-set/v-forge/cleaning-the-wired-ambient-probe.md)
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