Smoking Meat with the Internet of Things

That would definitely be an option. There are lots of ways this could be accomplished and what I wrote up by no means the most efficient. It was a learning experience for me and I wanted to document how the whole thing came together. I recently got a YUN and that could send data direct to parse with SSL so there wouldn't be any need for the proxy server in the middle. Thanks for taking a look!

My team at a recent Startup Weekend did this.

RasPI with a PID loop turning a fan on (increase heat)/off (decrease heat). The RasPI fed this into a backend server via websocket. We through a front end on to graph the temp, humidity etc. We could even set the temp and turn the fans on/off via the site.

Here is the commercial version: http://www.grilltender.com/