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Wonder if you can get one official one and cut out the rfid chip, install it permanently in the fridge

criddell 7y ago
You can order a bypass filter from GE (they are free). Cut the RFID from it and tape it to your fridge in the right spot and it will never complain about the filter again. The only downside is that when you dispense water it lights up a little sign that says "water is not filtered". I do this and buy cheap aftermarket filters from Amazon.
- blang 7y ago
  https://www.groovypost.com/howto/hack-rwpfe-water-filters-ge-fridge/ https://www.groovypost.com/howto/hack-rwpfe-water-filters-ge...
- gwbas1c 7y ago
  I put a piece of black tape over the filter light on my refrigerator. (It's not a GE.) You can probably find some tape that matches the color nicely on Amazon for a very small amount of money.
  - Loughla 7y ago
    I have a whole-home water filter, and fill up a jug from the tap that sits inside my fridge until I'm thirsty. I have never understood why people take extra steps, have extra inconvenience, and have more expensive, harder to replace items just for the sake of saving, what, fifteen seconds filling up a pitcher?
    - Dylan16807 7y ago
      Fifteen seconds 1500 times stops being negligible. And it is more convenient in multiple ways. Also you don't mess up the nice cold air in the fridge. It's a tradeoff but it's not a lopsided one.
- stjohnswarts 7y ago
  I think the problem is that you shouldn't have to. It's pretty anticonsumer all the way around.
  - closetohome 7y ago
    Everybody wants to sell razor blades these days.
clort 7y ago
Yeah, except that who decides if the filter is finished? Perhaps the 'smart' fridge will note that this filter has been used for NN litres and therefore must be replaced...
- striking 7y ago
  There's a bypass cartridge included with the fridge, whose RFID can be attached to a generic filter. (I found that out in a reply in the linked thread.)
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waltbosz 7y ago
Unless the fridge remembers the IDs of each filter, and won't let you reuse the same ID after 3 months (or whatever the service life is of a water filter). Maybe disabling the RFID reader hardware will make the fridge bypass the lockout code? The easier solution is just not buy a GE fridge, but the general public won't be aware of the need for that solution.
- antpls 7y ago
  or factory reset the fridge
  - ssully 7y ago
    This is an amazing sentence to read. I got new appliances a few years ago and luckily it was pretty easy to get "dumb" appliances. I really hope that is still true next time I need to get new appliances.
- blackearl 7y ago
  Or GE patches in a "fix" to prevent these hackarounds. I hate this future where I need to prevent a company from updating my wifi enabled fridge so I can get clean drinking water. Oh what a world.
  - waltbosz 7y ago
    Unless it's able to read it from the paper I magnet to its face, there's no why I'd ever tell my fridge my wifi password.

You can order a bypass filter from GE (they are free). Cut the RFID from it and tape it to your fridge in the right spot and it will never complain about the filter again. The only downside is that when you dispense water it lights up a little sign that says "water is not filtered". I do this and buy cheap aftermarket filters from Amazon.

blang 7y ago
https://www.groovypost.com/howto/hack-rwpfe-water-filters-ge-fridge/ https://www.groovypost.com/howto/hack-rwpfe-water-filters-ge...
gwbas1c 7y ago
I put a piece of black tape over the filter light on my refrigerator. (It's not a GE.) You can probably find some tape that matches the color nicely on Amazon for a very small amount of money.
- Loughla 7y ago
  I have a whole-home water filter, and fill up a jug from the tap that sits inside my fridge until I'm thirsty. I have never understood why people take extra steps, have extra inconvenience, and have more expensive, harder to replace items just for the sake of saving, what, fifteen seconds filling up a pitcher?
  - Dylan16807 7y ago
    Fifteen seconds 1500 times stops being negligible. And it is more convenient in multiple ways. Also you don't mess up the nice cold air in the fridge. It's a tradeoff but it's not a lopsided one.
stjohnswarts 7y ago
I think the problem is that you shouldn't have to. It's pretty anticonsumer all the way around.
- closetohome 7y ago
  Everybody wants to sell razor blades these days.

clort 7y ago

Yeah, except that who decides if the filter is finished? Perhaps the 'smart' fridge will note that this filter has been used for NN litres and therefore must be replaced...

striking 7y ago
There's a bypass cartridge included with the fridge, whose RFID can be attached to a generic filter. (I found that out in a reply in the linked thread.)

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waltbosz 7y ago

Unless the fridge remembers the IDs of each filter, and won't let you reuse the same ID after 3 months (or whatever the service life is of a water filter). Maybe disabling the RFID reader hardware will make the fridge bypass the lockout code? The easier solution is just not buy a GE fridge, but the general public won't be aware of the need for that solution.

antpls 7y ago
or factory reset the fridge
- ssully 7y ago
  This is an amazing sentence to read. I got new appliances a few years ago and luckily it was pretty easy to get "dumb" appliances. I really hope that is still true next time I need to get new appliances.
blackearl 7y ago
Or GE patches in a "fix" to prevent these hackarounds. I hate this future where I need to prevent a company from updating my wifi enabled fridge so I can get clean drinking water. Oh what a world.
- waltbosz 7y ago
  Unless it's able to read it from the paper I magnet to its face, there's no why I'd ever tell my fridge my wifi password.