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On March 19, 2019 at 22:54, Brad Humphrey said...
Stove/Oven:
1) You put your Lasagna in the oven in the morning. The oven keeps it cold through out the day. When you start to head home for work, you click the app to start dinner. The oven switches from cooling to baking. When you walk in the door at home, dinner is ready to come out of the oven.
2) You get a notification on your phone that one of the top heating elements has failed. It knows this from the monitored resistance on that heating element going open.
3) Push notification lets you know the oven has finished preheating. Or that a timer has completed.
4) Notification that you left the stove/oven on, when it doesn't sense anything on the cook top or in the oven.
5) Setup a complex cooking routine. Oven bakes at 175 for 4 hours, then switches to 400 for 10 minutes, then turns off.
Dryer:
1) Notify you when the dryer has stopped.
2) Notify you when the lint trap hasn't been cleaned out yet.
3) Start the dryer for 5 minutes in the morning, before you get out of your warm bed.
4) Notify you when trouble: drum not rotating, heating element out, etc.
Fridge:
1) Notify you if the door is left open a certain amount of time.
2) Keep an inventory list.
3) Monitor the temperature in the freezer and fridge (and even certain sections that have zone controls). And get alerts.
For the stove/oven, most people that can afford an oven that refrigerates and cooks, either don’t cook or the wife stays home and isn’t premaking a lasagna. I don’t see needing a push notification that the oven is preheated because when cooking, I’ve never found myself that far from the kitchen for that long. The complex cooking with different temps is a sales pitch. Doesn’t happen. And ultimately, the oven is something that can burn the house down. I don’t see many people being comfortable starting the oven when no one is home.
As for the dryer, I don’t want a dryer with more expensive diagnostic parts to tell me something I will notice very quickly, like the drum isn’t turning. And what kind of hovel are you living in that you would heat up your house in the morning by turning the dryer on?
And the fridge, my fridge has an alarm if the door is left open. If I’m not home to shut it, knowing about it doesn’t do me much good. And I’ve never worried about parts of the fridge being cooler than others.
Again, these all sound like points thought up by salespukes, not real purposes.
