Fellow Stagg EKG+
D1 Local Only — Speaks only to hardware you control.
The unplug test
Turn the knob to a temperature and press the button; the kettle heats regardless of whether a phone, a network, or the internet exists anywhere nearby, because it has no way to reach either. Bluetooth only lets a phone standing next to it, running Fellow's app, do the same thing remotely. Unplugging your router changes nothing here — this kettle was never on your network to begin with.
Why this tier: The device carries exactly one radio, Bluetooth Low Energy, confirmed by its own FCC grant (2AOU6EA01AA1A, 2402-2480 MHz, no WiFi listed) and by nothing else Fellow has filed under that grantee code. A community reverse-engineering project that built a third-party WiFi/Google-Assistant bridge for this kettle establishes, from direct protocol inspection, that the official Fellow app 'connects directly to the kettle over Bluetooth with no intermediary server' and that the bridge exists precisely because the stock device has no cloud path to add voice control or remote scheduling. Core temperature control is also available with no radio at all, via the physical knob on the base. No vendor cloud for this device was found anywhere it would have to appear — the app's own documentation, and the only other Fellow kettle product line with a network stack (the WiFi-based EKG Pro / EKG Updater) is a different radio and a different app that is explicitly incompatible with this model.
Specifications
| Account required | none |
|---|---|
| Works offline | fully |
| Forced firmware updates | unknown |
| Radios | ble |
| FCC ID | 2AOU6EA01AA1A |
| Local control | ble |
| Phones home | none |
| Parts available | unknown |
| Availability | discontinued |
| Price band | unknown |
| Vendor risk | 0 / 3 |
Where to buy
Open questions
- The Fellow app prompts account creation/login on first use for some Fellow product lines (confirmed for the newer Aiden coffee maker app); whether the legacy EKG+ pairing flow ever required this, versus pairing being purely local BLE with no login gate, was not confirmed directly — the manufacturer's own EKG+-specific support article returned an access-blocked response during this check rather than being read. This does not change the tier, since the reverse-engineering source independently confirms no server is in the command path regardless of any login screen, but it should be nailed down on a future pass.
- Whether firmware on this model can ever be updated at all (it predates the WiFi-based EKG Updater app, which is confirmed incompatible with it) — left unknown rather than assumed 'no update mechanism exists'.
- Exact discontinuation date not found; only that it is absent from Fellow's current catalog as of this check.
Sources
Class A is primary (manual, FCC filing, teardown). Class B is corroborated community reporting. Class C is never sufficient alone.
- A https://fccid.io/2AOU6EA01AA1A
FCC grant for Fellow Industries, Inc., generic 'Electric Pour-over kettle', granted 2018-02-26, covering Bluetooth only (2402-2480 MHz). No WiFi frequencies appear on the grant, and this is the only FCC ID Fellow Industries holds under grantee code 2AOU6 — the sibling-control check that makes the absence of a WiFi grant meaningful. — accessed 2026-09-05 - B https://github.com/tlyakhov/fellow-stagg-ekg-plus
Community reverse-engineering project documents the EKG+ as BLE-only and states the official Fellow app 'connects directly to the kettle over Bluetooth' with no server in between; the author built a separate WiFi/Firebase bridge specifically because the stock kettle has no cloud connectivity to add voice-assistant or remote-scheduling features. — accessed 2026-09-05 - A https://fellowproducts.com/collections/ekg-family-kettles
Fellow's own current kettle lineup page lists Stagg EKG, Stagg EKG Pro/Pro Studio, and Corvo EKG Pro/Pro Studio, with no 'EKG+' variant present — corroborating that the Bluetooth-only EKG+ has been discontinued from Fellow's current catalog. — accessed 2026-09-05 - C https://www.amazon.com/Fellow-Stagg-EKG-Bluetooth-Temperature/dp/B07DP911QL
Retail listing showing the Stagg EKG+ is still sold as new/legacy stock through third-party channels despite being dropped from Fellow's own current lineup. — accessed 2026-09-05
History
- 2026-09-05 — First published at D1.
Last verified 2026-09-05 — 1 days ago.