Comment by stackghost
7 hours ago
Please, let this be the stone that starts the avalanche of consumers rejecting smart apppliances.
My fucking fume hood on my stove has Bluetooth, because Samsung just can’t help themselves apparently.
7 hours ago
Please, let this be the stone that starts the avalanche of consumers rejecting smart apppliances.
My fucking fume hood on my stove has Bluetooth, because Samsung just can’t help themselves apparently.
I don't disagree, but having remote monitoring capabilities on a professional fridge is most likely not a hipster feature. Even mid-size supermarkets have dozens of them, with different temperature settings; they can fail, customers can block the doors, etc. You do want to receive an alert when something is wrong.
Those devices should be connected to air-gapped local network and not to manufacturer.
You don't seem to understand what these systems do at all. Air gapped takes about 80% of the usefulness away.
Why the fuck does a fume hood need that?!?!?!?!
> Why the fuck does a fume hood need that?!?!?!?!
Why, so you can turn it on from your smartphone when you're out of town, of course!
"Oh, Honey, I think we forgot to turn the stove off!"
"Well, I can't help you there, but I can turn off the fume hood from my phone!"
"..."
But it's Bluetooth so short range only? So it's not even good for that?
Exactly!
These are industrial fridges, the ones almost the size of a shipping container that you find in major supermarkets. But I agree with you that 'smart' home IoT is a shitshow.
What compelled you to buy a stove hood with a cpu and blutooth radio?
It was there when we moved in.
Would have been a red flag for me on the apartment tour haha. I once leased a place like this. Paid app needed to receive packaged mail. Never again.
Why would this time be any different than the last hundred times?
Honestly I like smart appliances. For example, I have a home assistant integration that will sound an alarm if a stove burner is on but no person is detected in the room, and a handful of other similar safety-related conditions.
But they don't need to be cloud-connected through some big corp's cloud. I want them local and firewalled, ideally.
sound an alarm if a stove burner is on but no person is detected in the room
Can you turn that off or do you just have to put up with the noise?
It's a situation that shouldn't happen in the first place; house rule is someone should be around if the stove is on.
Of course we can control it, it's all wired up via Home Assistant.
I prefer the freedom of putting a pot of water on to boil and walking off to take a leak, personally. That would drive me absolutely insane.
1. We prefer to be safe, and shut the burner off while going to take a leak. It helps that we have a several thousand watt induction stove that boils pots of water in a few minutes, so there is no real need to parallelize boiling water with bathroom breaks.
We specifically want to prevent scenarios like: you take a leak, the leak turns into a shitting session or a phone call, you forgot you left the burner on.
2. Most of the time my wife and I make food together so if one person needs to take a leak the other one is around anyway.
3. For long slow cooking, we have plenty of comfy seating in the kitchen/dining area where we can get work done while being in sight of pots.
4. We have 2 pets we'd need to locate in an emergency, and so we tend to put electrical and fire safety higher than most people.