Use our smoker quite often. Simply love it, don't even use our gas grill anymore. We only use this smoker to grill on.

My nephew had one of these, so I knew what to expect out of it, more or less.

The Good:

When it's working (more on that below), it's awesome! I have no idea how they do it, but the temperature stays within about 1 degree of the target temperature with nothing but an auger to add pellets (as far as I know). Maybe the electronic controller lies.

The controller app works really well and, again -- once working, makes everything really simple.

Honestly, if it worked like it's working now but instead immediately out-of-the-box, this would be 5 stars across the board.

The Bad:

In my first 4 attempts to smoke something, only 1 went without issue -- though, to be honest, two of the fails were my fault.

Attempt 1: Out-of-the-box, the buttons on the panel wouldn't hold a temperature or otherwise control the smoker. The WiFi range was VERY small. I had to have my phone connected directly to the smoker (not through my WiFi router) and my phone had to remain within about 10 feet of the smoker to keep the temperature from skyrocketing from the target 225 degrees to nearly 400! I live in an apartment, and that meant my phone had to sit by the window for a few hours and couln't be used for anything else during that time.

Attempt 2: An email to support (and some web browsing) informed me that you really should reset the controller before using it. It's recommended (somewhere online) that you also upgrade the firmware (even though the smoker is brand new and would presumably have the latest firmware installed). They really should include that in the reading materials in the box. Yes, they have a really nice, color, bound user manual/cookbook and reprinting would be a pain, but just shove one more piece of paper into the box.

After that, the controller could find my home WiFi network and the controller seemed to obey the buttons on the front! I could walk away and use my phone for other things. The smoker worked flawlessly!

Attempts 3 and 4: well, those were my fault. I didn't load the hopper fully the first time (was just trying it out, after all) and it ran out of pellets. There are no clues that that's why the temperature is dropping other than the hopper is empty, which I didn't expect after just 2 uses. Just check the hopper before letting it cool down and pulling it apart to see what's wrong with the combustion chamber.

Then, on attempt 4, my WiFi router needed a restart.

I'm developing a nice pre-smoke checklist... But, before you do anything with this smoker, reset the controller, upgrade the firmware, and reset the controller again.

The Ugly:

Nothing really.

What else should you know?

While the legs fold up to be carrying handles, it's not easy to carry by those handles and they suggest 2 people to fold the legs up or down. I put the smoker on a 5-gallon bucket to raise or lower the legs. You can lift the smoker briefly by chimney on one end and a handle on the other. It's not that hard to do with 1 person.

If, like me, you're in a situation in which the smoker might be far from your WiFi router, the kind of extension cable you want for the WiFi antenna is a "RP-SMA Male to Female Extension Cable". These work well for me: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JR8SQVH

Since I need to wheel the smoker around (apartment living and all), I bought a cheap, light convertible hand truck as a dedicated cart. You don't need anything heavy duty and you don't need extra weight to haul up and down stairs.

I have a fairly good amount of cooking experience for a non-professional. I used to build sous vide machines back when you couldn't just buy them for a reasonable price, and I've been using low-temp cooking methods for several years. I've got Modernist Cuisine and The Food Lab and have digested much of them. I've owned grills and smokers of all sorts. Propane, charcoal, electric. In the last few years books like Franklin BBQ and Meathead have helped me get my outdoor cooking game on point.

Pellet grills appealed to me because they combine the ease of use of a sous vide machine (accurate temperature control) with the flavor of a wood-fired smoker, and my brother and I are considering jumping into catering and buying (or building) a professional unit. I'd used electric smokers (meh), good old charcoal grills (bit better) and the big propane smokers (easiest to use but not 100% there on the flavor) but thought I'd give the pellets a try because if we're going to get a pull-behind smoker, we're going with wood or charcoal of some sort.

The Davy Crockett was my first foray. I chose it because if its relatively low price, portability, and its wi-fi connectivity.
My first impressions were that it was small but well-designed. It can fit easily enough to make a main course for a family. For my first cook I put six chicken thighs and 3 ears of corn in. For my second, an 8.5 lb. packer brisket in with room to spare. I'm not sure how big of one you could fit, but I would think even a fat 12 pounder or so would work. I don't know if you'll be able to do one of those 16 pound beasts you sometimes come across
It's a 12v unit, that comes with a 12v to cigarette lighter-style female plug in the back. They give you three things for the electric. A male to male lighter plug, so you could plug directly into a cigarette lighter in a car, RV, boat, etc. (That's actually nice because lots of pickups and RVs have those on the exterior.) That can also plug into the two other included items, a 110v male to 12v female lighter plug converter, or a 12v female lighter plug to alligator clips for hooking directly to a standard 12v battery.

The grill doesn't draw a lot of power, so if you were wanting to use it at a park, even a small 12v battery would be more than enough to get it going. It only uses 60w average to run, so that's about 5 amps, meaning a 10 amp hour battery could get you through about 2 hours, more than enough to grill some burgers or steaks. If you're wanting to smoke something for a long time you're probably going to have to go with shore power or an outlet on a vehicle you can idle. A small car battery wouldn't want to run this bad boy for more than a couple hours without using your alternator, so don't plug it into your civic and try to smoke a brisket.

I'm only a few cooks in but so far I love it, with a few minor caveats. First the good: it pretty much works how you'd hope it works. You fill the hopper with pellets, set the temperature, and it takes it from there. You don't have to spend any time managing temperature. I feel confident tossing in a brisket and leaving.

It's about 60 lbs. so you can move it quite easily with two people. I can move it myself, but your average woman probably couldn't. The legs fold up and become a handle, which is nice. Assembly was pretty easy. It took maybe a half hour, and they include nice tools to get it done.
The included temperature probe is a nice touch. You can see your food's internal temp without opening the lid, and it'll even notify you when done. It's like a built in Bluetooth probe. That's good because the wireless probe I have can't work through the smoker, which I guess is probably like one big faraday cage.

The grill has a fan in it that it uses to control the fire, and the way the unit is designed (heat from below, smokestack at the top) seems to encourage good air flow. The air circulation cooks your meat faster than a traditional smoker, much like a convection oven cooks your food faster than a regular one. I planned on 10 hours for my first brisket and it got done in 8. Other cooks got similar results. I'd say it takes something 10% off of your cook time generally, though that's just a guess.

The grill gets up to 550, which seems to be enough to call it self-cleaning. I ran it at that temp and pretty quickly everything inside was burned to ash. That's really nice, as cleaning smokers can sometimes be a real pain in the ass. I think with a shop-vac and a half hour of mostly unattended cooking, you could get it clean.

Food gets just the right amount of wood flavor. It isn't over or undersmoked. You don't have to think about how much wood you're adding. You just put the pellets in (with refills every few hours) and walk away, and you get great food. So as I give my list of minor gripes, don't forget that at the end of the day I love this grill. It's like the ease of use of a convection oven with the great flavor of a wood-fired smoker.

It's really just set it and forget it for great tasting food. It's quite impressive.

Now on to the minor gripes. First, I wish it had a bigger hopper. The pellets ran out in a few hours, and the process of getting it going sucks a little bit in the middle of a cook. It's awkward at any time, and could probably have been designed a bit better, but it's manageable. On the plus side, you don't ever have to do it if you just don't run out of pellets. I've debated making some sort of removable pellet hopper extender for long cooks.

Wi-Fi functionality could be a bit better. I have a hard time connecting with it, and it comes in and out. It's in a spot that my phone shows being about 50%. If anything the grill should probably have an easier time reaching wi-fi than my phone, since it has a giant antenna and a dedicated power supply. Even when it's connected to wi-fi, I can't manage it remotely if I leave the house. It'd be nice to just see the temperature even when I'm not there. The app's a little clunky but I'm an app-designer so I'm particular about UI/UX, and it does get the job done when you keep connected.

I'm not a real big fan of the two-piece oil pan thing. I'd prefer a disposable foil one or something. It looks like they sell them for the bigger models. If fat gets through it drips through the grill below, and I'm debating using high heat silicone to seal it and then coating the bottom in foil, just in case.

It burns through pellets pretty fast and they aren't cheap. It went through a hopper (which is about 9 lbs) in 4 hours on my first cook and that was at 70 degrees outside. I don't know if that's really a complaint about this unit; it's probably like that for any un-insulated smoker. I purchased the optional thermal blanket which the manufacturer claims will cut pellet use in half. That'd be really nice if true, and I'm sure I'll leave a review there.

So a few minor improvements that could be made, but overall I'd rate this unit a 4.5 stars if Amazon let me because at the end of the day it was relatively low-priced for a pellet grill, feels solidly built, and is really easy to get good results from. I'm going to round up to 5 though because if I knew then what I know now, I'd purchase it (with the thermal blanket from day one) again.

I was skeptical about this bit decided to go ahead and give it a try it is the only actual 12volt pellet grill I could find from the so called portable lines and since when actually camping you have no power it is truly the only actual portable on the market that can attach to you car battery or use you charger port inside. I have tried chicken pork belly burnt ends and peach cobbler since I purchased it a few weeks ago. All came out amazing. The temp control is on point. I purchased a 20 watt solar battery charger for the truck for while camping but so far even with a 8 use it has yet to take my battery to low to start my vehicle. Wish I had bought it before I purchased a larger pellet grill for home use.

Nice compact smoker ! Taking in our RV !