I’m more of a community lurker than poster, but I wanted to say thank you to @kbrown01 and everyone else on this thread for helping me get this going. My dashboard is not as pretty, but more functional for my specific needs.
I realized the only useful data from the iBBQ-4T was the temperature of the probes (maybe power state if I decide on conditional cards). The timer and temperature settings in the inkbird app are local to the app, so all of the timer and temp logic needs to be manually built it HA. (This is obvious to me now, but I didn’t understand that at first).
I wanted more control per probe like the inkbird app, so I created a timer per probe. I also always use probe 4 to control the temp of my smoker, so that probe I wanted a low temp alarm and a high temp alarm.
I also made use of script entities for most of the logic. This was easier for me to understand than templating states in the lovelace card. For example, the timer button calls the script that grabs the slider input_number to properly set the timer.
The mini graphs are a work in progress. I just wanted a quick way to force probe 4 in the middle.
I also have zero HA automations because I use Node Red for automations. The only automations used are for sending alerts to Alexa for timer finished or temp reached for probes 1 -3, then min temp and max temp alarms for smoker temp probe 4. I even call script entities from Node Red since this is easier for me than converting yaml to json for calling services.
I’m sure there are better ways to do this with variables for the probe numbers and such, but I was proud of the accomplishment.
I can post the code if anyone is interested, but there is a lot to gather. Thanks again everyone!