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wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nothing needs to be, but I do like to monitor door status and temperature for my fridge and deep freezers with home assistant.

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  • wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Have these functions actually proved useful? I think I’ve had maybe one fridge failure in my entire lifetime that resulted in a complete loss of contents.

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    • AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The door monitor mostly helps when a kid walks off leaving it open thinking they closed it.

      The freezer temperature monitoring has saved the contents several times. A breaker had tripped once and I didn’t notice, it let me know that I needed a generator during a power outage, and one of the kids snuck an ice cream and left the lid wide open.

      So yeah, it’s been useful. It’s not needed 99% of the time.

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      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        An alarm that beeps when the door is left open more than X minutes (say, 2 minutes) only requires a stupidly simple circuit and about $5 in parts.

        No smarts needed (though it’s probably cheaper to make it with a microcontroller than have the timer circuit be done with discrete parts).

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Hmm, my fridge is in my kitchen, which is in the middle of the house. I’ve never been in a situation where the fridge door has been open more than a couple minutes without me noticing, and I have three kids.

        I’ve had two fridges die (well, the same one twice), and that sucked, but there’s not much I could do about it even if I knew a few hours earlier, and I use the fridge enough I’ll notice within a few hours. Refrigerator deliveries often happen after a few days, and I’m not going to keep stocking ice during that period, I’ll just consume what I can and move the important stuff to the mini fridge or chest freezer.

        It would be cool, sure, but it’s not worth having it connected to the internet.

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    • Triumph@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The only time I've ever lost anything from a fridge was when an apartment complex preemptively cleared out the last of our belongings before we finished moving out.

      And that was 30 years ago.

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  • paequ2@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    To Home Assistant! The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  ads

  its the same people that bought the 2k beds, and aws froze and heated up the beds.

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  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not 2k beds. 2k bed covers. You still needed your own bed.

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    • anguo@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I thought I read about beds also being stuck in a reclined position.

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      • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That version is significantly more expensive. Still requires you to bring your own mattress lol

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• UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The people designing them should be smart. Should be…

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