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AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 19 hours agoNothing needs to be, but I do like to monitor door status and temperature for my fridge and deep freezers with home assistant.
paequ2@lemmy.today 17 hours ago
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 19 hours 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.
AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 18 hours 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.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours 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).
Triumph@fedia.io 19 hours 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.